User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1142365-20110805014740/@comment-26744861-20110805113000

Yeah I dislike the layout too. I found it much easier to block, change user rights etc. when we didn't have the dashboard. Plus I like having the top-nav links (like the navbar, Special:WikiActivity etc.) on every page just for the sake of simple navigation. Being a bureaucrat on a wiki, if the only option of switching it off applies to the whole community then I'll go by what they want but we should be able to turn it off across the whole wiki and if not that, for ourselves at least.