Thanks! Yes I did see that code but didn't know what to do.

I'll try removing it and see how it goes.

From: Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>
To: Eric K <ek79501@yahoo.com>; Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Need help for: Page rename / insert text / update links

2012/1/24 Eric K <ek79501@yahoo.com>

2. A category needs to be added for all redirects that have a certain regex (its the same as above: ".*[^\w\s-].*" )

The problem I'm facing with the add text.py bot, is that it doesnt add text to redirects (hence, it cannot add a category to a redirect). When it gets to a redirect, it automatically skips it. I might be wrong in my findings but this is what I ran into.

Eric, feel free to modify scripts to your own needs. As you wrote, you are famailiar with programming, and Python is an easy-to-understand language. Open add_text.py for editing, and search "redir". You will find it at one place:

        except pywikibot.IsRedirectPage:
            pywikibot.output(u"%s is a redirect, skip!" % page.title())
            return (False, False, always) # continue

Delete these three lines, and try to run it again.
I am not 100% sure this is enough (not tested) but I hope so.
Modifying teh code is often easier and takes the fraction of time than to run numerous experiments with the "legal" parameters. You may want to make a backup, but the original is always available from the net.
Note that Pywiki scripts use Unix-style linebrekas, so if you have Windos, you will have to use a proper editor instead of notepad (e.g. Notepad++) or change the newlines to CRLF.

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Bináris