diff --git a/frontend/ui/wikipedia.lua b/frontend/ui/wikipedia.lua
index 9a74c21a2..989fee27b 100644
--- a/frontend/ui/wikipedia.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/wikipedia.lua
@@ -1218,6 +1218,12 @@ table {
-- OEBPS/content.html
-- Some small fixes to Wikipedia HTML to make crengine and the user happier
+ -- In some articles' HTML, we may get
+ -- (which, by specs, is an empty element) without the proper empty tag ending "/>", which
+ -- would cause crengine's EPUB XHTML parser to wait for a proper , hiding all the
+ -- following content... So, just remove them, as we don't make any use of them.
+ html = html:gsub("]*>", "")
+
-- Most images are in a link to the image info page, which is a useless
-- external link for us, so let's remove this link.
html = html:gsub("]*>%s*(<%s*img [^>]*>)%s*", "%1")