Template:Cita news/doc

The Template:Cita_news handles Spanish-language (or Italian) parameters for cite news, as in the Italian Wikipedia template it:Template:Cita_news, with Italian "titolo=" for title. As of June 2013, {cite_news} would issue a red-error message for each unrecognized Spanish parameter as "Unknown parameter ignored..." and so {cita_news} here simply switches any Spanish/Italian parameter into the English equivalent, and translates any date/month names into English, until those cites can be hand-translated into English where needed.

Due to translation of dates/months, the runtime speed of the template is about 20-25 per second, and usage should be limited to about 150 {cita_news} per page, depending on performance needs.

The template can be wp:subst'ed in the form ... to generate the equivalent markup as " " but not inside wp:reftags &lt;ref>...&lt;/ref> which must be removed before subst'ing and then restored during another edit to a page.

List of parameter names
The major parameter keywords are listed below.

The various Italian parameters are listed on the Italian Wikipedia in Lua script it:Modulo:Citazione/Configurazione from June 2013.

Examples
Below are some examples using {cita_news}.


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 * &rarr; (example from "Laibach (band)")
 * &rarr;

List of month names
Below is a table of month names. Note how Spanish dates use the form "7 de de 2014" with words "de" (of) around the month name.

Performance considerations
The Template:Cita_news runs 40-50 per second, but users should translate to cite news, as time permits. The translations of {cita_news} would typically require expertise in Italian (or Spanish), plus knowledge of the Italian Wikipedia it:Template:Cita_news or the Spanish Wikipedia plantilla, plus knowledge of parameters of the enwiki Template:Cite_news. The parameter list, above, can be used to assist translation of parameter names.

Care should be taken to correctly hand-translate cite data into English; otherwise, the auto-translation of parameters is likely to be more accurate, as well as instantaneous (and without causing wp:edit_conflicts while the user is writing the article).