The main cause is the missing /s modifier, as indicated. Here is my alternative edit, which doesn't repeat matching the first tag (which, BTW, would fail if you have the same tag twice in the string) but instead continues where it was: 
while ($current_article =~ m/\[\[(.+?)\]\]/g) {
    my $tag_name = $1;
    print "Got $tag_name \n";
    print "Checking if we have any contents AFTER it... \n";
    print "RUNNING: \Q[[$tag_name]]\E(.*?)\[ \n";
    if ($current_article =~ /\G(.*?)(?=\[)/gcs) {
        print "Got contents: $1\n";
    }
    print "\n\n";
}

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On your code, this produces: 
Got 345fsdf sf 
Checking if we have any contents AFTER it... 
RUNNING: \[\[345fsdf\ sf\]\](.*?)[ 
Got contents: 



Got sdf sf fsd fsf 
Checking if we have any contents AFTER it... 
RUNNING: \[\[sdf\ sf\ fsd\ fsf\]\](.*?)[ 
Got contents:  


Got foo bar|whatever 
Checking if we have any contents AFTER it... 
RUNNING: \[\[foo\ bar\|whatever\]\](.*?)[ 
Got contents: 
== foo bar
=== foo bar test

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In reply to Re: Can't quite get this regex working by bart
in thread Can't quite get this regex working by ultranerds

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