Module:Sandbox/trappist the monk/count items

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experimental code that count the number of newline-immediately-followed-by-splat unordered-list wiki markup (this because * must be at the left margin – won't count a * that is the first character at the top of a page)

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local function count_items local content = mw.title.new ('Wikipedia:Typo_Team/Members'):getContent;	-- read the unparsed page source if not content then return ' error: failed to read: Wikipedia:Typo_Team/Members '; end local count; content, count = content:gsub ('[\r\n]%*', '%1');							-- count unordered list markup return count;																-- and done end

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return {count_items = count_items};