User blog comment:Kirkburn/Finding the latest activity on your wiki just got simpler!/@comment-417287-20091104195219

Actually, I like this for new users, as Kirkburn said, and it simplifies the RC for them. The links are convenient for visitors and does show them we're active, displaying five articles that were recently changed. I may want to style this a little myself, but that's not really the point.

Also, for myself at least, I'd like the option to use the older version of the widget, and I don't think it'd be a hard thing to implement. Mostly because the features the new version offers aren't things I want to see, it's things I want my visitors to see.