Hey,
Sorry for the passive-agressive tune, but having to write a ner Json
(de)serialization every quarter year is not that productive.
Considering we have not changed the internal format like this before, and that we are changing it to the one already used by the web API, in part to have less differences, this seems to be an unfair characterization to me.
Well, on the up side, it will really motivate people to use Wikidata
Toolkit ;-)
And of course there is the PHP library we ourselves are using for those creating PHP based tools. https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3