User blog comment:Trellar/Updates to Log In and Sign Up/@comment-4623180-20120302084830/@comment-26686429-20120302091918

Interesting, what exactly is it about "following" that you want to streamline?

With the activity feed, RC shows a more detailed view than WA - which does have the type of update, the time, if the page is new and minor, etc. You can also use AjaxRC to make it automatically refresh.

I strongly disagree with an admin-only forum. One of the great strengths of a wiki is that it's an open system - most of the decisions that admins make can also be discussed with the community, admins should be users with extra privileged tools, not "the elite" of the wiki - so I don't think that encouraging pages that only certain usergroups can view would be a good idea, as it promotes that idea of elitism.