No kidding. On my radio scanning wiki, categories (frequencies) are to be populated, but contain no text. Alas one must jump through hoops ( http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Template:C ) to not have the obligatory edit box thrust in the users' face.

And the obligatory edit boxes on empty help messages just get filled with users' comments.

Maybe someone can make a better bug out of my bug carcasses: [Bug 7347] Add __NOCATEGORIES__ just like __NOTOC__ [Bug 7897] allow stopping needless editing of categories [Bug 8060] __NO_CATEGORY_LIST_AT_END__ [Bug 8810] "You have to log in to edit pages" 1-2 punch [Bug 8810] List all errors when user is forbidden from editing a page [Bug 8812] Special:Categories red links vs. $wgGroupPermissions [Bug 8813] Documentation of $wgGroupPermissions is poor