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<!-- 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.

[edit] 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:Bijee/India)
• possible to define fixed Country_Quickbar, City_Quickbar and other templates using this

[edit] How

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

[edit] 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 Wikitravel:Using Mediawiki templates and its discussion

[edit] 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 -->

[edit] Templates used

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