Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE added a comment.
Because the data value is in the same format that you get back when you
retrieve the entity data. We sometimes allow for some redundancy (mainly for
backwards compatibility, I believe) – for example, both of these values
{
"entity-type": "item",
"numeric-id": 5
}
{
"id": "Q5"
}
will get you
{
"entity-type": "item",
"numeric-id": 5,
"id": "Q5"
}
in the entity data. (At least the entity data you get out of the API or
Special:EntityData. I don’t know if we actually store the redundant bits
internally.) But I’m not aware of any place where we try to “clean up” the
value beyond that (e.g. by allowing `" Q5 "` in the `"id"`). And I think it
would be reasonable for API users to expect that if they pass a data value into
the low-level API, and it’s accepted, then they will get it back unmodified.
(`wbparsevalue` would be the higher-level API that’s “allowed” to do
normalization.)
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