Sorry I should have elaborated further.

I have had a script for a long time that gathers some information from Wikipedia. I only run it occasionally and it doesn’t make very many requests. I hadn’t run in a few days and when I ran it today, I got that error message and can’t seem to fix it. Weirdly, about 1% requests do actually do go through.. that is, until after a few minutes of running the script, when all requests fail with no exception.

I have tried everything and nothing seems to fix it. I don’t think it’s a rate limit issue either - I tried using my VPN and I still got the same error.

My personal theory has been that some process on Wikipedia’s servers is overloaded. That seems to explain the errors as well as the few requests that do go through.