User blog comment:Susanolivia/Experience the new Wikia/@comment-761251-20100924223738/@comment-8-20100925152707

We added the dismiss link after receiving feedback from the first beta testers. Originally, notifications were only dismissable by visiting the talk pages -- in the same way as the orange bar works now. It seems that we haven't quite found the perfect solution there yet. Thanks for the feedback, I'll pass it on to our product team