https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55301
--- Comment #1 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com --- Starting off a redirect on the source side did the job. See below. So likely, the problem is that, the disambig status of the source page was not properly stored in the above case, but now was.
Full output:
python interwiki.py -v -initialredirect -autonomous A61 DBG> BUG: Non-unicode (<type 'str'>) passed to wikipedia.output without decoder! File "/home/purodha/pywikipedia/interwiki.py", line 1946, in <module> for arg in wikipedia.handleArgs(): File "/home/purodha/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6503, in handleArgs output('Pywikipediabot %s' % (version.getversion())) File "/home/purodha/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6836, in output print traceback.print_stack() None DBG> Attempting to recover, but please report this problem Pywikipediabot (r6978 (wikipedia.py), Jun 21 2009, 13:58:28) DBG> BUG: Non-unicode (<type 'str'>) passed to wikipedia.output without decoder! File "/home/purodha/pywikipedia/interwiki.py", line 1946, in <module> for arg in wikipedia.handleArgs(): File "/home/purodha/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6504, in handleArgs output('Python %s' % (sys.version)) File "/home/purodha/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6836, in output print traceback.print_stack() None DBG> Attempting to recover, but please report this problem Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 21:59:32) [GCC 4.3.2] Retrieving mediawiki messages from Special:Allmessages WARNING: No character set found. Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:ksh... NOTE: [[ksh:A61]] is redirect to [[ksh:A61 (Watt eßß datt?)]] Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:ksh... NOTE: [[ksh:A61 (Watt eßß datt?)]] is redirect to [[ksh:A 61]] Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:ksh... NOTE: [[ksh:A 61]] is redirect to [[ksh:A 61 (Watt eßß datt?)]] Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:ksh... [[A 61 (Watt eßß datt?)]]: [[ksh:A 61 (Watt eßß datt?)]] gives new interwiki [[de:A61]] Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:de... NOTE: [[de:A61]] is redirect to [[de:A 61]] [[A 61 (Watt eßß datt?)]]: [[de:A61]] gives new redirect [[de:A 61]] Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:de... ======Post-processing [[ksh:A 61 (Watt eßß datt?)]]====== Updating links on page [[de:A 61]]. Changes to be made: Ergänze: ksh + + [[ksh:A 61 (Watt eßß datt?)]]
NOTE: Updating live wiki... Getting information for site wikipedia:de Note: this language does not allow global bots. Changing page [[de:A 61]] Retrieving mediawiki messages from Special:Allmessages WARNING: No character set found. Updating links on page [[ksh:A 61 (Watt eßß datt?)]]. Changes to be made: ußjewääßelt: de + - [[de:A61]] + [[de:A 61]]
NOTE: Updating live wiki... Getting information for site wikipedia:ksh Note: this language does not allow global bots. Changing page [[A 61 (Watt eßß datt?)]] ~$