There is a partial solution in change I2ed8bb96: First try on Multilabels

wikidata-bugs wrote:

Change Ie91ca208: (bug 41994) display labels and descriptions in user languages

wikidata-bugs wrote:

Change I33ea4cae: (bug 41994) display labels and descriptions in user languages

[replacing wikidata keyword by adding CC - see bug 56417]

I've retitled the bug (problem isn't just for *new* items, it's for *all* items that doesn't have a description or interwiki in a language you speak).

Obviously, I can't *edit* item content in languages that I don't speak, either.

My proposed solution would be that, at the bottom of the "in other languages" box (currently only displaying languages on the user's #Babel), an additional "in other languages" button is displayed. On clicking that new button, all languages which have an item name and/or description will be displayed. At the bottom of that, there should be an "add" button for adding item descriptions in arbitrary languages, similar to the [add] button at the bottom of the interwiki list.

Technically you can add {{#babel|foo-0}}, but that's terrible and isn't a proper solution.

@Kunal: Actually, no. If you don't speak a particular language, you won't even know that the content exists.

The language fallbacks we just introduced fix a lot of this. The rest will come with the new header design. I am going to close this as we don't need to keep it around.