The API is outputting that a particular page is protected when the protection log (and reality) indicate otherwise. This may be a Wikimedia issue and it may not be related to the API at all, but I filed it under MediaWiki / API anyway.
The API query is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=protection&titles=1755%20Lisbon%20earthquake
The protection log for the given title is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=1755_Lisbon_earthquake
So perhaps one of the tables contains bad rows? Or the API has a glitch? The output from the API looks rather unusual:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
<query> <pages> <page pageid="352339" ns="0" title="1755 Lisbon earthquake" touched="2008-12-13T10:06:03Z" lastrevid="257482439" counter="1" length="21025"> <protection> <pr type="edit" level="" expiry="infinity" /> <pr type="move" level="" expiry="infinity" /> <pr type="move" level="" expiry="infinity" /> <pr type="edit" level="" expiry="infinity" /> </protection> </page> </pages> </query>
</api>
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor