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  • delistify: remove "*" and "#"s sequences in the beginning of each Wikitext line
{{#invoke:Wikitext|delistify|
* plop
wow
*# plop
*#plop}}

gives

plop wow plop plop

z = {    
	-- mw = require "Module:mw"
};

function z.listifyLines(text)
    local result = ""
    for idx,line in ipairs(mw.text.split(text, "\n", true)) do
        if line ~= "" then
        	result = result .."* " .. line .. "\n"
        end
    end
    return result
end

function string.starts(String,Start)
   return string.sub(String,1,string.len(Start))==Start
end

function z.delistifyLines(text)
    local result = ""
    for idx,line in ipairs(mw.text.split(text, "\n", true)) do
        result = result .. line:gsub("^[*#]+ *", "") .. "\n"
    end
    return result
end

function z.listify(frame)
	return z.listifyLines(frame.args[1])
end

function z.delistify(frame)
	return z.delistifyLines(frame.args[1])
end

return z;