site.pagebacklinks follow_redirects=True raises InterwikiRedirectPage
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	Dec 18 2015, 1:45 AM

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When a page contains a redirect to another wiki , and site.pagebacklinks is called with filterRedirects=False: InterwikiRedirectPage is raised.

Before this change, the page was causing the error.

https://travis-ci.org/jayvdb/pywikibot-core/jobs/97539420#L3534

ERROR: testLinkMethods (tests.site_tests.TestSiteGenerators)
Test site methods for getting links to and from a page.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/travis/build/jayvdb/pywikibot-core/tests/site_tests.py", line 447, in testLinkMethods
    filterRedirects=False))
  File "/home/travis/build/jayvdb/pywikibot-core/pywikibot/site.py", line 3377, in pagebacklinks
    if redir.getRedirectTarget() == page:
  File "/home/travis/build/jayvdb/pywikibot-core/pywikibot/page.py", line 1491, in getRedirectTarget
    return self.site.getredirtarget(self)
  File "/home/travis/build/jayvdb/pywikibot-core/pywikibot/site.py", line 3044, in getredirtarget
    raise InterwikiRedirectPage(page, target)
InterwikiRedirectPage: Page redirects to a page on another Site.
Page: [[en:User:Gdominik100]]
Target page: [[pl:Wikipedysta:Gdominik100]] on wikipedia:pl.

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	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[bugfix] No longer try to follow interwiki redirects	Xqt	pywikibot/core	master	+7 -1

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Mentioned In: T137754: interwiki.py should ignore/skip pages that redirects to another wiki instead of crashing

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Xqt renamed this task from site.pagebacklinks filterRedirects=False raises InterwikiRedirectPage to site.pagebacklinks follow_redirects=True raises InterwikiRedirectPage.Mar 13 2026, 8:41 PM

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Change #1251548 had a related patch set uploaded (by Xqt; author: Xqt):

[pywikibot/core@master] [bugfix] No longer try to follow interwiki redirects

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1251548

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Xqt moved this task from Proposed Projects to Tinkering in Progress on the Hackathon-Northwestern-Europe-2026 board.Mar 14 2026, 12:13 PM

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Change #1251548 merged by jenkins-bot:

[pywikibot/core@master] [bugfix] No longer try to follow interwiki redirects

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1251548

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