On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Steve VanSlyck
<s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
> Ideally I would like to not have them appear at all, unless expressly
> created.
See Daniel Barrett's book on MediaWiki (p. 263) for some pointers
on how to remove the Top Taps:
http://books.google.de/books?id=2dhL5V3pLHkC&lpg=PP1&ots=pUrLnbbnQy…
You will have to write your own extension for that.