Mediawiki is a real horrendous piece of software, especially if you want to work with Wikipedia. The wiki-markup(language used to write articles) does not even have a standard. Hence there are no perfect parsers other than Mediawiki itself.
I have been working with Wikipedia for the past 2 years now and would really prefer to write my own parser, only if there is a standard for wiki-markup.
Mediawiki lists its alternate parsers here.
Almost none of them are complete. I cannot say all of them are incomplete because I have not tried all of them. But I feel all of them are incomplete, especially with Wikipedia articles.
The Best Mediawiki parser I have used was gwtwiki. This is also listed in the alternative parsers link on mediawiki.
But this is still incomplete as not all articles are displayed correctly.
Kindly list some good mediawiki standalone parsers that you have used and that work.
I will add them to the list at the end of the article.
Best Mediawiki Alternate Parser
1. gwtwiki
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