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Consider using the Natural Skin in your UMWiki web.

If you're interested in polishing up your UMWiki web, you should highly consider using the NatSkin plugin that we installed in December 2005. NatSkin is something of a hidden gem inside of the UMWiki, and we purposely have avoided proselytizing it because it deviates from the pattern skin in a way that would severely confuse people in our documentation.

But, I think that 18 months is long enough to wait and I'm just going to start talking and writing about it. First of all, you can see what your UMWiki web would look like using the NAT skin by adding the following snippet to the URL of any topic inside of the UMWiki:

?skin=nat

For example, try this:

https://wiki.umn.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?skin=nat

To get it back to normal, set the skin variable equal to 'pattern' like so:

https://wiki.umn.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?skin=pattern


That's a start. Tomorrow I'll give some tips on how to put on your "natural skin glasses" and override how you see ALL pages in the UMWiki, by jimmying your personal settings in the Main web.

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