Currently, in the Recent Activity module, we're using the unmodified edit summary text without parsing the wikitext at all. That leads to edit summaries which contain wikitext being harder to parse:

In this example it's not particularly helpful to know that 'The Guardian' text is linked, or which page it points to, and we'd like to avoid additional links inside the edit row in this module, as this could lead to a messy set of links close to each other. Our intention is for users to click through to the edit if they want to learn more about it.

We could be parsing the wikitext, and then stripping any formatting before displaying it here. In this example, we'd like to show

Bot: The Guardian citation — added issn parameter ...

With 'The Guardian' not being hyperlinked.