docs: def __parse(self, string=''):
          '''
          Parse a string to remove and replace all wiki markup tags
          '''
          self.string = string
          self.string = self.wiki_re.sub('', self.string)
          # search for lists
          self.listmatch = re.search('^(\*+)', self.string)
          if self.listmatch:
              self.string = self.__list(self.listmatch) + re.sub('^(\*+)', \
                            '', self.string)
          return self.string