Template:Cite web/French/doc

Cite web/French handles French-language parameters for cite web, as in the French Wikipedia template fr:Modèle:Lien web, with French titre for title. As of March 2017, {cite_web} would issue a red-error message for each unrecognized French parameter as "Unknown parameter ignored..." and so Cite web/French here simply switches any French parameter into the English equivalent, and translates any date/month names into English.

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 Cite web/French 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  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 French parameters are listed on the French Wikipedia in Lua script fr:Module:Biblio/Ouvrage from September 2013.

Examples
Below are some examples using Cite web/French.

&rarr;

&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 &lt;month> de 2014" with words "de" (of) around the month name.

Performance considerations
The Template:Cite web/French runs 45-50 per second, but users should translate to cite web, as time permits. The translations of Cite web/French would typically require expertise in French, plus knowledge of the French Wikipedia cites or fr:Modèle:Lien web (template), plus knowledge of parameters of the enwiki Template:Cite web. The parameter list and months, listed above, can be used to assist translation of parameter names and dates.

Care should be taken to correctly hand-translate cite data into English; otherwise, the auto-translation of parameters is likely to be more correct.