> What server side? As far as I know, WDT doesn't use the Wikidata server, just
> the dumps. Or can it access the API directly, now? I have not looked at it in a
> while.

WDT provides a small API client: https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/tree/master/wdtk-wikibaseapi/src/main/java/org/wikidata/wdtk/wikibaseapi