Some remarks:
I changed the hostname\(\) in family file to "mlp.wikia.com" and used the following statements:

import wikipedia as wp
s = wp.getSite\('wikia', 'wikia'\)
p = wp.Page\(s, 'Template:Date/doc'\)
t = p.get\(force=True\)

result:
Traceback \(most recent call last\):
File "<pyshell\#69>", line 1, in <module>
t = p.get\(force=True\)
File "wikipedia.py", line 699, in get
expandtemplates = expandtemplates\)
File "wikipedia.py", line 800, in \_getEditPage
"Page does not exist. In rare cases, if you are certain the page does exist, look into overriding family.RversionTab"\)
NoPage: \(wikia:wikia, u'\[\[wikia:Template:Date/doc\]\]', 'Page does not exist. In rare cases, if you are certain the page does exist, look into overriding family.RversionTab'\)

the query param dict was:
\{'inprop': \['protection', 'subjectid'\], 'rvprop': \['content', 'ids', 'flags', 'timestamp', 'user', 'comment', 'size'\], 'prop': \['revisions', 'info'\], 'titles': u'Template:Date/doc', 'rvlimit': 1, 'action': 'query'\}

the result data dict was:
\{u'query': \{u'pages': \{u'-1': \{u'protection': \[\], u'ns': 10, u'missing': u'', u'title': u'Template:Date/doc'\}\}\}\}

and last the url is:
/api.php?inprop=protection%7Csubjectid&format=json&rvprop=content%7Cids%7Cflags%7Ctimestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment%7Csize&prop=revisions%7Cinfo&titles=Template%3ADate/doc&rvlimit=1&action=query

which gives the right result via browser e.g.:
http://mlp.wikia.com/api.php?inprop=protection%7Csubjectid&format=json&rvprop=content%7Cids%7Cflags%7Ctimestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment%7Csize&prop=revisions%7Cinfo&titles=Template%3ADate/doc&rvlimit=1&action=query&format=jsonfm

I found the patched editarticle.py on pastebin, woohoo\!

<pre>33a34
> import pagegenerators
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< self.page = pywikibot.Page\(site, pageTitle\)
\---
> self.page = iter\(pagegenerators.PreloadingGenerator\(\[pywikibot.Page\(site, pageTitle\)\]\)\).next\(\)</pre>

• milestone: --> trunk

diff of editarticle.py with working pagegenerators fetching

diff of get.py with working pagegenerators fetching

Yes this path retrieves the page content via special:import instead of API because API bulk call is not approved for the trunk release. Thus this patch wouldn't work for rewrite branch.

Anyway it is not clear for me, why the api returns the data by browser call but not via bot frameworks query.

changed the hostname() in family file to "mlp.wikia.com" and used the following statements:

import wikipedia as wp
s = wp.getSite('wikia', 'wikia')
p = wp.Page(s, 'Template:Date/doc')
t = p.get(force=True)

works for me.

adding version info:
Pywikipedia [https] r/pywikibot/compat (r10308, a208b54, 2013/09/24, 09:51:19, ok)
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:24:47) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
config-settings:
use_api = True
use_api_login = True
unicode test: ok

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