For Meta Stack Overflow, the 2.0/sites endpoint returns "main_site" rather than "meta_site". All other site_type for other stackexchange sites return correctly.
URL: https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/sites?filter=!3x9D0xtBGnDvaejbR
Expected (partial) response:
...
{
"site_type": "meta_site",
"name": "Meta Stack Overflow",
"api_site_parameter": "meta.stackoverflow",
"site_url": "http://meta.stackoverflow.com"
},
...
Actual (partial) response:
...
{
"site_type": "main_site",
"name": "Meta Stack Overflow",
"api_site_parameter": "meta.stackoverflow",
"site_url": "http://meta.stackoverflow.com"
},
...
Apologies if this is intended behaviour - if so, the name is very misleading! I searched but didn't find any reference to it in existing bugs / questions.