User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-3971662-20110805020344/@comment-4713673-20110805172828

Just to build on SereneChaos' note, once you minimize the sidebar it will stay that way as long as you are signed in and will remain in the same state that you left it in on every Special Page (so you don't need to minimize the sidebar for each Special Page you go to, you only have to do it once.)