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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/patches/625/
Reported by: andreasjs
Created on: 2013-08-24 21:57:56.794000
Subject: Pagegenerator: follow redirects, intersection, exclusion
Original description:
I added three new arguments:


-followredirects  
Used with other arguments that specify a set of pages. 
                  If a specified page is a redirect page, work on its 
                  target page.

-intersecting     
Argument to be used between two other arguments. 
                  Work only on pages normally specified by both the
                  previous and the next argument.

-excluding        
Argument to be used between two other arguments. 
                  Work only on pages normally specified by the
                  previous argument but not by the next argument.

For example, one could want to find the pages edited by a specific user that contain a certain keyword in a title. 

A few other suggestions:
Exclude sections, even on files.
Compare pages via the Page.\_\_cmp\_\_ property to exclude duplicate pages instead of 
u"%s:%s:%s" % (page._site.family.name, page._site.lang, page._title). 
(more transparent and easier to maintain).