https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66687
--- Comment #2 from John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com --- The patch above only 'hides' the problem. It would be good if you could add a line
print rev
at line 139 to pywikibot/version.py , so it looks like this
print rev conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('github.com')
and report what it prints out.