There is a site on metawiki about the json format which is not up to date
(phase 2). Maybe this is what you are looking for:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model_in_JSON

Severin Wünsch

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> > There are some ids like "dewiki", "enwiki" etc, which I guess can be
> > interpreted to corresponding languages "de", "en" respectively. But is
> there
> > a reliable map from these *wiki to the language code? And some are even
> > using 3-letter prefix, e.g. gotwiki, xmfwiki.
>
> You cannot infer the language from the site identifier. "enwiki" is a site
> identifier. The software allows having multiple sites for the same
> language. For instance you could have an entity that is also described on
> the English Wikitionary. Or an entity described on a third party website as
> well, such as a movie on imdb. Unfortunately it looks like we are not yet
> providing an actual API for accessing this information.
>
>
> > Are the APIs above ("action=query&prop=revisions" and
> "actioon=query&list=recentchanges") the supported way to retrieve
> wikidata.org in realtime?
>
> I suspect this is your best bet for now. We have a mechanism for change
> propagation to mirrors, though right now the only implementation on top of
> this that we have is WMF specific. Volunteers and third parties can however
> create their own implementation suitable for non-WMF use.
>
> Cheers
>
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> Jeroen De Dauw
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