simulo, 10 months ago

@lauraehall which sidebar do you mean? The one that used to show editor tools (uploads, contributions) on the left hand side, or the ones that summarize data about people or cities on the right hand side? (aka templates in content or templates/skins for the Mediawiki-UI per se?)

lauraehall, 10 months ago

@simulo I’m aiming to keep things pretty simple! It’s a wiki about immersive arts, so I mostly want flexible sidebar infoboxes for people, companies, etc

I’m also setting up header and footer boxes (for example, listing every production a theater company has created) just using tables, but aside from the basics the formatting/visual style is beyond me

simulo, 10 months ago

@lauraehall I think I have created a template before but it's some years ago.
I would probably create templates for table start, end and the rows between, get a basic structure working, then work on the styling.

krinkle, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

@simulo @lauraehall @theresnotime

I created a minimal example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Template:Infobox_simple

Nut shell:

• HTML table floated to the right with CSS.
• Each row a th and td tag.
• The built-in {{#if parser function lets articles skip unused rows.
• I use <noinclude>demo to show all rows on the Template page.
• I spiced it with templatestyles and templatedata, which I think are easy to install, but can be omited.
• Create variations as needed "Template:Infobox_city", … "_artist", etc.

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