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('(.+)', '%1') --remove nowrap while keeping text inside :gsub('
', ', ') --replace br with commas :gsub('<.->.-<.->', ) --strip out tags :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 return text end

return p