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--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "[[foo|gah]] is [[bar]]" to "gah is bar" --removes anything enclosed in tags that isn't nested, mediawiki strip markers (references etc), files, italic and bold markup local p = {}  function p.main(frame) local text = frame.args[1] return p._main(text) end  function p._main(text) if not text then return end text = mw.text.killMarkers(text) :gsub(' ', ' ') --replace nbsp spaces with regular spaces :gsub('
', ', ') --replace br with commas :gsub('(.-)', '%1') --remove spans while keeping text inside :gsub('(.-)', '%1') --remove italics while keeping text inside :gsub('<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out remaining tags and the text inside :gsub('<.->', '') --remove any other tag markup :gsub('%[%[%s*[Ff]ile%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out files :gsub('%[%[%s*[Ii]mage%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out use of image: :gsub('%[%[%s*[Cc]ategory%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out categories :gsub('%[%[[^%]]-|', '') --strip out piped link text :gsub('[%[%]]', '') --then strip out remaining [ and ] :gsub("'''''", "") --strip out bold italic markup :gsub("'''?", "") --not stripping out '''' gives correct output for bolded text in quotes :gsub('----', '') --remove ---- lines :gsub("^%s+", "") --strip leading :gsub("%s+$", "") --and trailing spaces :gsub("%s+", " ") --strip redundant spaces return text end  return p