User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1429792-20110806143937/@comment-1429792-20110808183645

Meighan thanks for your reply. Much appreciated. Some more thoughts as I've used it more:

Blue Bar:
 * In the blue bar for dashboard there are two links to the main page (the wordmark - the link in which is now extra wide - and the exit button. Also, "Back to Dashboard" and "General" both do the same thing, so it's a bit redundant having both.


 * The need help link in blue bar takes me to Wiki Activity special page on this wiki. If I was a new admin I don't think that would really help me. If I click a link that says help, I expect to find myself on a help page about the admin dashboard or something, not that. It should link to something more useful, that at least tells the user where they are and what this wiki is for (main page or the help forums).

Buttons in the Dashboard:
 * About your point on RC being important to new admins: surely it should be linked to before theme designer button? RC is a constantly used thing, theme designer is something that would only be used occassionally. Also on new admins: a link to some guidelines/pointers on adminship for those that have never been an admin before wouldn't go amiss, particularly on wikis that have no other regular editors that they could turn to.


 * I have a button for Page Layout Builder even though that does not exist on Bleach Wiki (side note: is that feature still in development or has it been adandoned?).


 * Maybe there should be a link/button for Special Contact, Category:Candidates For Deletion, also a link to editing mediawiki, css & js pages for more advanced editors.


 * Being able to get the user list from the dashboard is an improvement over accessing it via Special:Statistics. But it is still not a feature I would use all that often.


 * A bit ironic that I can edit what appears in the top navigation but yet I can't actually see the navigation from the dashboard!


 * The button for user rights is fine for b'crats, but as an admin, I can only alter chatmod/kickban rights (and that can only be used for wikis that have chat enabled), so it is not terribly useful to me.


 * Maybe (eventually when it is all fully functional) allow admins to pick what appears in there, as some wikis need different things.