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May 20, 2008, 1:12 PM

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How to repeat the useskin=skin on the URL line in links

If I call a page from my wiki using something other than the default skin,
by putting ?useskin=chick for example after the URL for the page, is there
some way to make links that users click on, in that page, also use the
"chick" skin?
I'd very much like to find an easy not to hacky way to decide which skin is
used so I can repurpose some of my content within other sites and not have
it all fall apart as soon as someone clicks on something and gets put back
to the main site skin.

Help appreciated,

Gadgetdoctor
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May 20, 2008, 3:10 PM

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Re: How to repeat the useskin=skin on the URL line in links [In reply to]

The Gadget Doctor wrote:
> If I call a page from my wiki using something other than the default skin,
> by putting ?useskin=chick for example after the URL for the page, is there
> some way to make links that users click on, in that page, also use the
> "chick" skin?
> I'd very much like to find an easy not to hacky way to decide which skin is
> used so I can repurpose some of my content within other sites and not have
> it all fall apart as soon as someone clicks on something and gets put back
> to the main site skin.
>
> Help appreciated,
>
> Gadgetdoctor

What happens if you set a cookie named useskin with value chick?

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mediawiki at thegadgetdoctor

May 20, 2008, 5:17 PM

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Re: How to repeat the useskin=skin on the URL line in links [In reply to]

I'm not sure how I'd go about setting a cookie from within Mediawiki and how
or when it would get read back to change the links on the page.
I probably could (at the very limits of my knowledge and skill) write some
jscript to run through the page and add ?useskin=chick to the end of all
links, but, like I said, I'm trying to avoid something as "hacky" as that.

GadgetDoctor

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Platonides <Platonides[at]gmail.com> wrote:
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> What happens if you set a cookie named useskin with value chick?
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