User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1393830-20110805173000

Here is a tip: Do not ever ever ever ever mess with Recent Changes. You see the backlash that this has created. Many, may of us use Recent Changes as a homepage on the wiki and utilize it to see whats happening on the wiki. We can't exactly do that if we can't actually see what it says. The giant admin dashboard scrunches the content on special pages so much that it is hard to read. You say its collapsible, it's not. I see a simple solution here if you are willing to do it. Remove the dashboard from automatically showing up on all special pages and make it a page in itself. I don't need the quick stats on these pages as they are not accurate and not informative. If I want stats, I will go to Quantcast which gives me correct stats. As I already said, the idea of this is good. However this is by far one of the most horribly implemented features Wikia has released. I hate ranting like this but you don't give me much choice. The main wiki I go to that I am an admin on is an answers wiki. I don't need the dashboard as none of what is in there should be done on an answers wiki. So I ask again, remove the dashboard from special pages and just make it its own page. You have already linked it on the toolbar, why does it have to overtake all pages?