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kemayo
on Aug 19, 2021
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Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit
Parsoid[1] is what you'd want for that, most likely. It's the new wikitext parser that MediaWiki is gradually switching over to, but it has the virtue of being usable entirely outside of MediaWiki if you need to.
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
bawolff
on Aug 19, 2021
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Yes, but it implements lua by calling into the old stack, which doesn't really solve OPs problem.
kemayo
on Aug 20, 2021
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Okay, yeah, I guess that Lua modules in particular are going to make everything fall down.
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[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid