The "protorel" property recently added to the output of
action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap was coded to include the
property with a boolean true value rather than the API-standard empty
string. This is now corrected, and will be deployed to WMF wikis with
1.24wmf10.
At some point in the future (timeframe and details undecided yet), I would
like to change the API so that boolean properties like this one will
actually be a truthy value (e.g. boolean true) in JSON and other output
formats. It's likely that the backwards-compatible mode would cause any
other properties that are currently returning as boolean true to change to
empty-string.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation