MediaWiki comments destroy Tables in Parser

[elijahpettitt]

MediaWiki Comments
When comments <!-- A Comment--> are placed on the same line as a new row symbol |- the |- is parsed as another cell and no other cells or rows are parsed.

When the comment is on a separate line(or on the next cell line) after the row mark and before another cell mark | pandoc throws the error:
Error at "source.wiki" (line 13, column 2): unexpected ' ' | Example
with an arrow pointing at the space bewteen "|" and "Example"

There are no errors when the comment is in a cell on the same line or on its own line

Command Line
(docker run --rm --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/pandoc,target=/data --user "$(id -u)":"$(id -g)" pandoc/core:latest source.wiki -f mediawiki -t html) > pandoc/target.html

Input1 failed example

{| class="wikitable"
! Header text 
! Header text 
! Header text

|-
| Example 
| Example 
| Example

|- <!-- This is a comment --> 
| Example 
| Example 
| Example
|}

Output1

<table>
<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th><p>Header text</p></th>
<th><p>Header text</p></th>
<th><p>Header text</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td><p>Example</p></td>
<td><p>Example</p></td>
<td><p>Example</p>
<p>|-</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Expected1

<table>
<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th><p>Header text</p></th>
<th><p>Header text</p></th>
<th><p>Header text</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td><p>Example</p></td>
<td><p>Example</p></td>
<td><p>Example</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td><p>Example</p></td>
<td><p>Example</p></td>
<td><p>Example</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Version
I am running on Ubuntu but using docker

pandoc 2.18
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.22.2, texmath 0.12.5, skylighting 0.12.3,
citeproc 0.7, ipynb 0.2, hslua 2.1.0
Scripting engine: Lua 5.3
User data directory: /root/.local/share/pandoc