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--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "[[foo|gah]] is [[bar]]" to "gah is bar"
--also strips out flags
local p = {}
function p.main(frame)
	text = frame.args[1]
	text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '<span class="flagicon">.-</span>', '') --strip out flags
	text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[%[.-|', '') --strip out piped link text
	text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[', '') --then strip out remaining [ and ]
	text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%]', '')
	text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%s+', ' ') --need to strip duplicate spaces, as removing file leaves an extra space after it
	return text
end
return p