Hi all, A few weeks ago I was asked to set up a wiki, I choose mediawiki (1.5.3 was the stable version these days) as the software. As I worked on the project customers asked me for some modifications. I want to share those with the comunity. Currently the patch is for version 1.5.3, but if you think features are worthy I can create a patch for version 1.5.6 (current stable). The patch is available in http://www.chasqui.cu/staff/manu/2006/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.5.3-manu.bz2 This a sumary of features: 1. Added a initTemplate(&$tpl) method in SkinTemplate in order to give a chance to subclases to initialize QuickTemplates in several ways. 2. Added 2 global vars to keep category pages from displaying the header "Articles in category XXX" and no articles at all. 3. Added a 'talk' permission to allow wiki admins to restrict anonymous access to pages in NS_TALK namespace. 4. Added 1 global var to control how firstChar() should behave in order to create index entries in category page's listings. This, I think, should be done other way, please read the comments in the patch. Files modified: 1. CategoryPage.php 2. DefaultSettings.php (in order to set the introduced permission and global vars to current default values, this is, as if they never existed) 3. SkinTemplate.php 4. Title.php (permissions are granted here) 5. Language.php and LanguageUtf8.php (firstChar mod, see above) 6. LanguageEs.php (disposable) I would like to hear comments. Regards, Manuel.