From 6c27c5385fad149780a65dd52045c2671c12577d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson Harper <jacksonh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:10:07 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Remove footnote links in wikipedia articles

---
 packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts b/packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts
index 37005a18a..db872ba27 100644
--- a/packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts
+++ b/packages/content-handler/src/websites/wikipedia-handler.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ export class WikipediaHandler extends ContentHandler {
   async preParse(url: string, dom: Document): Promise<Document> {
     // This removes the [edit] anchors from wikipedia pages
     dom.querySelectorAll('.mw-editsection').forEach((e) => e.remove())
+
+    // Remove footnotes
+    dom.querySelectorAll('sup[class="reference"]').forEach((e) => e.remove())
+
     // this removes the sidebar
     dom.querySelector('.infobox')?.remove()
     return Promise.resolve(dom)