Is there any way I can stop that gaping mouth of an edit box on empty category pages?? P.S., I will see you here in Taiwan at WikiMania, 8/2007. function fnmybla($text,$title) { if ( ( NS_CATEGORY == $title->mNamespace ) || ( NS_CATEGORY_TALK == $title->mNamespace ) ) { $text = "(Please don't edit any Category pages on this wiki. They are ment to have members, but no text bodies, on purpose. I cannot figure out any way to stop the big edit window from opening below. I wish when one visits action=edit on category pages, it would act like action=view. I could have \$wgHooks['userCan'] return false, but then the user is given 'This page has been locked to prevent editing...' and must click an additional time to see what are the member categories. makeBrokenLinkObj() has no hook to stop making them &action=edit links for empty categories. I wish I had a way to change them to action=view, i.e., no action= parameter at all.)"; } } $wgHooks['EditFormPreloadText'][]='fnmybla'; function fnmyEdit(&$this ) { #gave up due to not being a php phd global $wgUser, $wgOut, $wgRequest, $wgContLang; global $wgEnableParserCache, $wgStylePath, $wgUseRCPatrol, $wgParser; global $wgUseTrackbacks, $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies; global $wgArticle, $wgTitle; $sk = $wgUser->getSkin(); wfDebug("qq$wgTitle->mNamespace $wgTitle->mTitle\n"); if ( ( NS_CATEGORY == $wgTitle->mNamespace ) || ( NS_CATEGORY_TALK == $wgTitle->mNamespace ) ) { #maybe these will do what I want, except I don't know how to invoke them. CategoryPage::view(); #CategoryPage::doCategoryMagic(); return false; #you see, I want the user to see just what he would if action=view, though he did HTTP GET action=edit. #no, Article::view(); won't get the category links shown. } return true; } $wgHooks['AlternateEdit'][]=fnmyEdit; As you can see I want to contain all this inside LocalSettings.php.