Template:Graph:Population history/doc

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This graph's main version resides at mediawiki Template:Graph:Population_history. Please make all the changes there and copy it everywhere else (until the copying is automated)

{{Graph:Population history\|Q84}} Show London's population history from Wikidata

{{Graph:Population history \| table=Wikidata/St.Petersburg.tab \| atable=Original/St.Petersburg population annotations.tab}} Show population of St.Petersburg from the table on Commons, with annotations

Inserts a graph with the population history for the given city.

Template parameters
This template prefers block formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
City Wikidata ID	`1`	Wikidata ID of the city or region Default Q84	String	optional
Title of the data page on Commons	`table`	Data page name on Commons, without the Data: prefix. The table must contain "year" and "population" columns.	String	optional
Raw values for this graph	`values`	Supply all values as a list of JSON objects: {"year":1980, "population":1000}, {"year":1984, "population":1045}, ...	Unknown	optional
Title of the annotations data page on Commons	`atable`	Data page name on Commons, without the Data: prefix. The table must contain "year" column, and optional "text" and "color" columns.	String	optional
Raw annotation values	`avalues`	Supply all annotation values as a list of JSON objects: {"year":1980, "text":"Big event"}, ...	Unknown	optional
Filter expression	`filter`	Optionally, filter the data with an expression, e.g. datum.year >= 1900 && datum.year < 2000	Unknown	optional
Graph color	`color`	Shade with which to highlight the data in the chart Default #00f Example #f00	String	optional
Interpolate	`interpolate`	How data points should be connected, e.g. linear, step-before, step-after, basis, basis-open, cardinal, cardinal-open, monotone Default monotone Example linear	String	optional
Graph scale	`scale`	Scaling could be one of these: linear, log, pow, sqrt, quantile, quantize, and threshold Default linear Example log	String	optional
Maximum Y value axis	`max`	This optional value might be useful to align multiple graphs side-by-side Default Automatically scaled to the data. Example 10000	Number	optional
Width	`width`	Width for the chart in pixels, if different from the default. Default 400	Number	optional
Height	`height`	Height for the chart in pixels, if different from the default. Default 200	Number	optional