How does very temporarily having a few more circles on the left side of the page prevent you from productively contributing to the wiki? When I look at them I see them operating in a protected column on the left side of the page, and they don't interfere with reading the text or editing the page.
I would only say that they help me in terms of productively contributing to the wiki because they help me drive traffic to the site by making Tweeting a lot easier. I mean, if no one is here to read these articles, there's not a whole lot of point to the exercise, is there?