[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Patches-1845405 ] Allow redirects on interwiki.py's command line

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Patches item #1845405, was opened at 2007-12-06 10:16
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Submitted By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Allow redirects on interwiki.py's command line

Initial Comment:
Sometimes, it is tedious to correctly enter lengthy page titles having foreign letters which your terminal program cannot handle well - although very often you have a short & simple named redirect page pointing to them. So as to not reject such redirects, but rather operate on the redirect target, I wrote a simple platch for interwiki.py which turned out to be a real time saver to me.

Adding -initialredirect to the command line turns it on: if the page on the command line is a redirect page, after the message "NOTE: A is redirect to B" has been shown, page A is done, and page B is set to be worked upon.

If the new parameter is not on the command line, everything is as it was before: processing stops after the message "NOTE: A is redirect to B", pages A and B are skipped.

The patch is attached.

It always worked fine for me in many instances. It is, however, not thoroughly tested together with the more esotheric options of interwiki.py, which I simply did not have use for. While I believe there are no side effects, I am not knowledgeable enough to be 100% sure, so I suggest review by more experienced folks before adding my patch to the code base.

Thanks.

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