https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71497
--- Comment #4 from Lokal_Profil lokal_profil@hotmail.com --- @Fabian: SSL issue doesn't happen when I call pywikibot.version.getversion()
@Merlijn: Running "pip install --upgrade httplib2" didn't help (and on searching I find cacert.pem in the requests directory).
Completely reinstalled pywikibot (to try and remove any issues related to the egg installer but still the same issue.
u'[ssh] pywikibot-core.git (df93880, g4208, 2014/10/05, 23:53:47, n/a)'
Reading a bit at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1306991 it seems as though requests is broken for Ubuntu 14.04.