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

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:

Templates used

 * Template:QBbegin
 * Template:QBtitle
 * Template:QBimage
 * Template:QBline
 * Template:QBend