https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71121
--- Comment #3 from John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com --- It isnt urgent. It only happens occasionally, and only happens on one site. Another one today. https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/jobs/37035200
(In reply to Sorawee Porncharoenwase from comment #1)
The easiest workaround is to remove the test, and when we come up with a better test that guarantees that it won't cause a failure in any case, we can add it later.
Another workaround is to simulate a stream of recentchanges / newpages somehow to prevent insufficient recent change data.
The best 'quick' way to do this is move the test into a new class, and then in setUpClass skip the tests if there are not sufficient suitable recentchanges / newpages for the test to run against the live wiki.