User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-3030984-20110806074549/@comment-961279-20110806151551

A real easy way to make this optional is to follow the method established by every other page you see as an admin: make it an extra link that apepars either at the top of the page or in the drop-down menu. The ones that auto-populate based on your user rights. That way, you can get to the Admin Dashboard easily if you want to, but you're not forced to see it every time you look at the Recent Changes or some of the other special pages.

I would also prefer it if the Dashboard didn't override a wiki's color scheme. It should be able to lookup the color variables inside the CSS file or the Theme Designer and use those.