User blog comment:Lancer1289/Beta Wrap Up Post/@comment-217683-20101007173610/@comment-2088100-20101007173950

Yeah, no easy links to them. I imagine they're trying to de-emphasize them in favor of the more typical tasks of editing, rather than maintaining.

Recent changes can be reached by clicking "Wiki activity" in the upper right corner, then from there, clicking the "See All Activity" button.

For pretty much every special page, you have to add it to the "My Tools" thing in the floating toolbar. Recent Changes can be added there as well, I believe.