This script is often used before user-config.py exists.
Should we increase the timeout somehow?

Are specific requests timing out? Or just random ones?

In T110859#1588575, @Legoktm wrote:

Are specific requests timing out? Or just random ones?

it is generate_family_file.py that is failing, so I believe it is only fetching the front page HTML and then API siteinfo (and then siteinfo's interwikimap).

We've never seen this before, so either their site is a bit off at the moment, or its always had timeout issues and we've not noticed because we've havent specified a timeout.

Is this problem still present ? @jayvdb