https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55313
--- Comment #7 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com --- No, it's not exactly what I asked for. In the original feature request #2284955 [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2284955&gro...], as far as I can see, the idea was to read both starting pages and hints from the same file, line per line, and to make an array of pages to be processed and relevant hints.
# [[:xx:page_without_interwiki]] [[:en:English_page_used_as_a_hint]]
Working on a single page with -hintfile option doesn't seem to be that useful.