User:(WT-en) JanSlupski/Projects/QuickBar

<!-- begin quick bar --> {{QBbegin}} {{QBtitle| Flag }} {{QBimage| pl-flag.png }} {{QBtitle| Quick Facts }} {{QBline| Capital | [[Warsaw]] }} {{QBline| Government | republic }} {{QBline| Currency | zloty (PLN) }} {{QBline| Area | ''total:'' 312,685 sq km <br>''water:'' 8,220 sq km <br>''land:'' 304,465 sq km }} {{QBline| Population | 38,625,478 (July 2002 est.) }} {{QBline| Language | Polish }} {{QBline| Religion | Roman Catholic 95% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and other 5% }} {{QBline| Country Calling Code | +48 }} {{QBline| Internet TLD | .pl }} {{QBline| Time Zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) }} {{QBend}} <!-- end quick bar --> Extensible QuickBar with use of templates.

Why

Why I want to reinvent the weel...

• currently encoded (HTML) QuickBars may frighten begginers
• Wiki style tables are cleaner, but need more space (lines) and still suffer of all style definitions mess
• QB source should be cleaner to view (or skip)
• QB editing should be more intuitive
• don't loose flexibility (in opposition to predefined Template:Country_Quickbar used in User:(WT-en) Bijee/India)
• possible to define fixed Country_Quickbar, City_Quickbar and other templates using this

How

Creating QuickBar would be a sequence of template calls. Titles & images would have one parameter. Ordinary lines two.

Why this doesn't work

• WikiMedia has to be at least in version 1.4 to support more than five lines based on the same template. See MetaHelp:Template.
• WikiTravel policy currently does not allow this kind of templates. See Project:Using Mediawiki templates and its discussion

Example source

Source of QuickBar shown at right would look like:

<!-- begin quick bar -->
{{QBbegin}}
{{QBtitle| Flag }}
{{QBimage| pl-flag.png }}
{{QBtitle| Quick Facts }}
{{QBline| Capital              | [[Warsaw]] }}
{{QBline| Government           | republic }}
{{QBline| Currency             | zloty (PLN) }}
{{QBline| Area                 | ''total:'' 312,685 sq km <br>''water:'' 8,220 sq km <br>''land:'' 304,465 sq km }}
{{QBline| Population           | 38,625,478 (July 2002 est.) }}
{{QBline| Language             | Polish }}
{{QBline| Religion             | Roman Catholic 95% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and other 5% }}
{{QBline| Country Calling Code | +48 }}
{{QBline| Internet TLD         | .pl }}
{{QBline| Time Zone            | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) }}
{{QBend}}
<!-- end quick bar -->

Templates used

• Template:QBbegin
• Template:QBtitle
• Template:QBimage
• Template:QBline
• Template:QBend