"mainsnak": { "snaktype": "value", "property": "P31", "hash": "d679b35e7a9523b92903b52661a9e4c15d8d76d3", "datavalue": { "value": { "entity-type": "item", "numeric-id": 112826905, "id": "Q112826905" }, "type": "wikibase-entityid" }, "datatype": "wikibase-item" },

One of the constant pain points that I have heard and run across is this:

Any chance Wikidata's JSON format might be a little more developer friendly

for tooling in general? Like why do they sometimes have "entity-type" and "numeric-id" as keys with dashes, when a lot of the world and our parsing libraries have sorta standardized around at least only camelCase or snake_case in JSON. I mean, look at what they did with "snaktype" and "entity-type" ! Can you find out, Thad ?

So I said to them, sure. 😉 (granted I know all characters are allowed for object property names in JSON and someone likely in the team at the time said, "eh, doesn't matter, it's JSON, it eats anything".)

Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ https://calendly.com/thadguidry/