Module:Plain text
Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Plain text/doc
--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] or '' return p._main(text) end function p._main(text) text = mw.text.killMarkers(text) :gsub('<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out tags :gsub('%[%[%s*File%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out files :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 return text end return p