Module:Plain text

--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "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('<.->.-<.->', '') --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