User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1429792-20110806143937/@comment-876022-20110807233404

The last thing we want is for a tool to interfere with your work flow on your wiki.
 * • Then explain to me why I must use a ton of JS and CSS to just bring back the old functionality of the skin that non-sysops have?

We see RC as a valuable tool that needs to be highlighted for new admins so we decided to have it live within Admin Dashboard.
 * • If you're as big as the RuneScape Wiki or larger, having just over 4,605,454 revisions (about 1,000,000 edits every 8 months) means that WikiActivity is not useful and anyone who wants adminship there will have used RecentChanges for years now. Not knowing about and using RecentChanges means never getting the sysop group right. If it's being said that non-admins don't use RC you're dead wrong.
 * • The change from Monaco to Oasis made many special pages' inaccessible in a single click. This is the reason why we now have the "ability" to customize the floating toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

At the moment this is not an optional feature.
 * • This feature will be as optional as I make it to be on my own CSS and JS.
 * • These changes hinder counter-vandalism which still discombobulates me on how ya'll say We did not change any of the content of Recent Changes, the log remains exactly the same as it has always been. when the hell it isn't.
 * • Giving Special Pages a makeover is the worst design decision made since the amendment of the Terms of Use last year.

If it's disabled for some of our most passionate wikis and Wikians, your experience would be different than any other wiki and in the future you would not be able to reap the benefits of new tools added to the dashboard and other changes that will be coming along with this.
 * • Hm? Then why can some wikis use RevisionDelete, CheckUser, allow crats to give users the bot flag when this isn't universal? Your logic astounds me.
 * • Minus the wait for SearchDigest and Semantic MediaWiki to be enabled on the RuneScape Wiki, there is absolutely nothing that AdminDashboard now and in the future can provide.
 * • Statistics: Sitemeter does this with slightly different data than what you're pulling from Quantcast and it doesn't encumber our time on Special Pages. Bright side is it gives us more detailed information being a totally free account than Quantcast.
 * • The only benefit of it is showing me that you want to enable Blogs and PLB on every wiki since these buttons still exist whether or not the wiki in question has them enabled (as such, forcing these features will force whole wikis to leave).

I don't care for the default Oasis theme for the Wikia skin, I certainly loathe having it forced when other extensions properly use the ThemeDesigner settings.