Module:Storm categories/categories/doc

This is the documentation page for Module:Storm categories/categories

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This page contains the tropical cyclone category data for Module:Storm categories.

Each category is expected to contain the following information:

ID – the ID is derived from the key/index of the category in the cats table
- This ID must be in lowercase and have no special symbols; the module will take care of data sanitization.
color – the hexadecimal code of the category's color, without
name – the name of the category
sortkey – the sortkey of the category
- Give decent spacing in between keys for future categories.
icon (incomplete) – the icon of the category in wikitext
basin (to be done) – a table (list) of basins to which this category applies to
scale (to be done) – a wikilink (without brackets) leading to the scale of this category
q (to be done) – the Wikidata entity of this category

Aliases are defined at the bottom of the module. They are in the following format:, where actual is the ID of the category:

cats["alias"] = cats["actual"]