https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55165
--- Comment #7 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com --- changed the hostname() in family file to "mlp.wikia.com" and used the following statements:
import wikipedia as wp s = wp.getSite('wikia', 'wikia') p = wp.Page(s, 'Template:Date/doc') t = p.get(force=True)
works for me.