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When calling any script with the -help argument to see the parameters it can handle, the bot makes a call to the api of the default configured wiki.

I noticed it because my default configured wiki is a test wiki hosted locally, and I have the webserver stopped when I don't need it running. When I need to run the bot, I manually specify -family:WHATEVER

Under that circumstances, every attempt to run -help on any script causes an error because the default configured wiki-family is not accessible:

$ python pwb.py replace.py -help
> ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/path/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 341, in submit
>     body=paramstring)
>   File "/path/pywikibot/comms/http.py", line 184, in request
>     raise request.data
> error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
> 
> WARNING: Waiting 5 seconds before retrying.
> ^CTraceback (most recent call last):
>   File "pwb.py", line 171, in <module>
>     run_python_file(fn, argv, argvu)
>   File "pwb.py", line 69, in run_python_file
>     exec(compile(source, filename, "exec"), main_mod.__dict__)
>   File "scripts/replace.py", line 685, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "scripts/replace.py", line 483, in main
>     local_args = pywikibot.handleArgs(*args)
>   File "/path/pywikibot/bot.py", line 666, in handleArgs
>     init_handlers()
>   File "/path/pywikibot/bot.py", line 248, in init_handlers
>     writelogheader()
>   File "/path/pywikibot/bot.py", line 318, in writelogheader
>     log(u'SITE VERSION: %s' % unicode(site.live_version()))
>   File "/path/pywikibot/site.py", line 1877, in live_version
>     expiry=0 if force else 1)
>   File "/path/pywikibot/site.py", line 1097, in get
>     preloaded = self._get_general(key, expiry)
>   File "/path/pywikibot/site.py", line 1043, in _get_general
>     default_info = self._get_siteinfo(props, expiry)
>   File "/path/pywikibot/site.py", line 967, in _get_siteinfo
>     siprop='|'.join(props)).submit()
>   File "/path/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 580, in submit
>     self._data = super(CachedRequest, self).submit()
>   File "/path/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 358, in submit
>     self.wait()
>   File "/path/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 469, in wait
>     time.sleep(self.retry_wait)
> KeyboardInterrupt
> <type 'exceptions.KeyboardInterrupt'>

Of course, it works when I have apache running, but such connections seem unnecessary when the bot doesn't have to run anything.