Man was I slick when I wrote all this for MonoBook skin in my LocalSettings.php, for my http://jidanni.org/comp/wiki/article-category.html sites,

$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_CATEGORY]=$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_CATEGORY_TALK]=array('editinterface'); function JidanniBlueLinkCategoryPages($linker,$target,&$text,&$customAttribs,&$query,&$options){ switch($target->mNamespace){case NS_CATEGORY:case NS_CATEGORY_TALK:$options[0]='known';}return true;} $wgHooks['LinkBegin'][]='JidanniBlueLinkCategoryPages'; function JidanniDontInviteEdit(&$article,&$outputDone){if($article->getID()===0){ switch($article->mTitle->getNamespace()){case NS_CATEGORY:case NS_CATEGORY_TALK:$outputDone=true;}}return true;} $wgHooks['ArticleViewHeader'][]='JidanniDontInviteEdit';#Bug 17630 function JidanniLessRedContentActions($sktemplate,$content_actions){ if(array_key_exists('talk', $content_actions)&&'new'==$content_actions['talk']['class']&& !$sktemplate->mTitle->quickUserCan('createtalk')){unset($content_actions['talk'],$content_actions['watch']);} if(array_key_exists('nstab-category',$content_actions)&&'selected new'==$content_actions['nstab-category']['class']){ $content_actions['nstab-category']['class']='selected';} return true;} $wgHooks['SkinTemplateTabs'][]='JidanniLessRedContentActions'; #Bug 17963

But now the years have passed and Vector Skin is now the default, and I need to also make it work for Vector too but of course the moral of the story is ... grandpa isn't a suitable Ph.D. candidate as he used to be. So could someone tell me what I need to do to make these work in Vector? Yes I know some flat list as been replaced by an array... but my brain has become like a flat list... In the meanwhile my site looks bad by default. Yes I could change the default skin back to Monobook but sooner or later I need to rewrite these.