User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1714259-20110805063040/@comment-4713673-20110805164742

Hi Thebrains222, the Admin Dashboard sidebar is just in version one, we'd like to put more features there that are really useful to you guys in the not so distant future so it's not "wasted space". As I'm mentioning in other comments, we hear the feedback about search being incredibly useful and we'll be working to add it back in, most likely in the sidebar, soon. If you have any ideas for things you would personally find useful there please let us know.

The Advanced Tab is also just the first version, over time it will get better versions of some of the tools, along with new tools (like easy access to Wikia.CSS) and we're definitely reading and asking for requests from advanced admins on what other new or improved tools we can put there. Have any ideas? :)

As far the "open close bar" on special pages, can you report what is being faulty about here or at Special:Contact? If there's a bug I want to make sure we've got if in line to be fixed!