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.

Version: core-(2.0)
Severity: minor