Presently, Lua allows one to import preprocessed templates / pages using frame.preprocess. This is useful for many applications.

However, there does not appear to be any way to get at a page's raw wikitext without processing.

There are a number of meta tasks and tools that might operate more logically and faster on the raw wikitext rather than the already parsed and expanded code. So it would be nice to add a method of allowing Lua to access the unparsed wikitext of a page.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement