Hello,
An update regarding this: It is now deployed in wikidata.org and rest of
Wikimedia wikis.

Have a nice day.

Am Mo., 2. Aug. 2021 um 14:53 Uhr schrieb Mohammed Sadat Abdulai <
[email protected]>:

> This breaking change is relevant for anyone who consumes Wikidata RDF data
> through Special:EntityData (rather than the dumps) without using the “dump”
> flavor.
>
> When an Item references other entities (e.g. the statement P31:Q5), the
> non-dump (?flavor=dump) RDF output of that Item would include the labels
> and descriptions of the referenced entities (e.g. P31 and Q5) in all
> languages. That bloats the output drastically and causes performance
> issues. See Special:EntityData/Q1337.rdf
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q1337.rdf> as an
> example.
>
> We will change this so that for referenced entities, only labels and
> descriptions in the request language (set e.g. via ?uselang=) and its
> fallback languages are included in the response. For the main entity being
> requested, labels, descriptions and aliases are still included in all
> languages available, of course.
>
> If you don’t actually need this “stub” data of referenced entities at all,
> and are only interested in data about the main entity being requested, we
> encourage you to use the “dump” flavor instead (include flavor=dump in
> the URL parameters). In that case, this change will not affect you at all,
> since the dump flavor includes no stub data, regardless of language.
>
> This change is currently available for testing at test.wikidata.org. It
> will be deployed on Wikidata on August 23rd. You are welcome to give us
> general feedback by leaving a comment in this ticket
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285795>.
>
> If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
>
> Cheers,
>
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