Hey Martynas,

The importance of this distinction cannot be overstated. If one views
some custom JSON and JSON-LD (and by extension, RDF) as two
alternative formats for doing the same thing, than clearly one fails
to grasp what the semantics and web of data are about.

I understand those are not the same thing, and that you can do things with JSON-LD that you cannot do with such a custom format. Keep in mind that the main goal of this API is not "to be part of the web of data". You can already get RDF via the Wikidata API. The goal here is simplicity for the target audience of your average developer, who happens to not really know what the web of data, JSON-LD or RDF are. As I mentioned before, this does not mean this API cannot also cater to a more specific audience by means of providing an additional format. However, the main format will not try to be interpretable as RDF using some reinvention of JSON-LD, as it will not try to be interpretable as RDF at all.

Cheers

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