Extension:SpecialPagesOrganizer

$egOrderArray["Maintenance reports"] = array('Uncategorizedpages', 'Uncategorizedcategories', 'Uncategorizedimages', 'Uncategorizedtemplates', 'Unusedcategories', 'Unusedimages', 'Unusedtemplates', 'BrokenRedirects', 'DoubleRedirects', 'Longpages', 'Lonelypages', 'Withoutinterwiki', 'Protectedpages', 'Protectedtitles');
$egOrderArray["Login / sign up"] = array('Userlogin');
$egOrderArray["Recent changes and logs"] = array('Newimages', 'Log', 'Watchlist', 'Newpages', 'Recentchanges');
$egOrderArray["Media reports and uploads"] = array('Filepath', 'Imagelist', 'MIMEsearch', 'Upload');
$egOrderArray["Users and rights"] = array('Ipblocklist', 'Contributions', 'Listusers');
$egOrderArray["Pages in need of work"] = array('Deadendpages', 'Ancientpages', 'Shortpages', 'Wantedcategories', 'Wantedpages');
$egOrderArray["High use pages"] = array('Mostlinkedcategories', 'Mostimages', 'Mostlinked', 'Mostlinkedtemplates', 'Mostcategories', 'Mostrevisions');

$egPageNameArray['Randompage'] = "OMG a RANDOM PAGE!";

<?php
/* SpecialPagesOrganizer 1.1 - a special pages organizer for MediaWiki
 * Copyright (C) 2008  Artem Kaznatcheev
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
 
# Not a valid entry point, skip unless MEDIAWIKI is defined
if (!defined('MEDIAWIKI')) {exit( 1 );}
 
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
        'name' => 'Specialpages Organizer',
        'version' => '1.1',
        'author' => 'Artem Kaznatcheev, Schneelocke',
        'description' => 'reorders the special pages on the specialpages page',
        'url' => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialPagesOrganizer'
);
 
$egDisplayNCSP = True; //default value
$egOrderRP = False; //default value
$egPageNameArray = array(); //default value
 
/* 
 * This function effectively replaces wfSpecialSpecialpages. It should be
 * called by the 'SpecialPageExecuteBeforePage' hook. As data, this page
 * will need an array of arrays to show how the categorization breaks down.
 * The outer array is assosiative and should be indexed by the desired
 * names of the section. The data each index holds is an array of all the
 * items in that section, listed by their proper name (which can be found
 * at the start of SpecialPages.php)
*/
function efReorderSpecial($order, $specialpage, $par, $func){
  // The if statement is to check for being on the right page. 
  // If on the wrong page, execution continues as normal
  if (($specialpage->getName()) != 'Specialpages'){
    return true;
  }
 
  global $wgOut, $wgUser, $egDisplayNCSP, $egOrderRP;
  $wgOut->setRobotpolicy( 'index,nofollow' );
  $sk = $wgUser->getSkin();
 
  //get the list of all Regular Special Pages
  $fullList = SpecialPage::getRegularPages(); 
 
  if ($egOrderRP) { //get restricted pages if desired
    $fullList = array_merge($fullList, SpecialPage::getRestrictedPages());
  }
 
  //for each section, populate the Special Pages
  foreach ($order as $head => $members) {
    $subList = array();
    foreach ($members as $member){
      $subList[$member] = $fullList[$member];
      unset($fullList[$member]); //remove the item from the fullList array
    }
    efReorderSpecialpages_gen($subList, $head, $sk);
  }
  if (!($egOrderRP)) { //get restricted pages if they where not fetched earlier
    wfSpecialSpecialpages_gen( SpecialPage::getRestrictedPages(), 'restrictedpheading', $sk );
  }
  if ($egDisplayNCSP) { //generate the "Others" section
    efReorderSpecialpages_gen($fullList, 'Non-Categorized Specialpages', $sk); 
  }
  return false;
}
 
/* 
 * This function is made to output the ordered arrays, with the proper
 * titles. Most of this function is copied from wfSpecialSpecialpages_gen
 * in SpecialSpecialpages.php
 */
function efReorderSpecialpages_gen($pages,$heading,$sk) {
  global $wgOut, $wgSortSpecialPages, $egPageNameArray;
 
  if( count( $pages ) == 0 ) {
    return;
  }
 
  $sortedPages = array();
  foreach ( $pages as $name => $page ) {
    if ( $page && $page->isListed() ) {
      if (array_key_exists($name, $egPageNameArray)) {
        $pageName = $egPageNameArray[$name];
      } else {
        $pageName = $page->getDescription();
      }
      $sortedPages[$pageName] =  $page->getTitle();;
    }
  }
  if ( $wgSortSpecialPages ) {
    ksort( $sortedPages );
  }
 
  /* 
   * Now output the HTML
   * This section is modified to take the titles straight from the array,
   * without "wfMsgHtml"
   */
  $wgOut->addHTML('<h2>'.$heading."</h2>\n<ul>");
  foreach ( $sortedPages as $desc => $title ) {
    $link = $sk->makeKnownLinkObj( $title , htmlspecialchars( $desc ) );
    $wgOut->addHTML( "<li>{$link}</li>\n" );
  }
  $wgOut->addHTML( "</ul>\n" );
}
 
//below is the hook that actually brings the array into the wiki
$wgHooks['SpecialPageExecuteBeforePage'][] = array('efReorderSpecial', $egOrderArray);
 
?>