On February 27, 2017 at 7:54:43 AM, Daniel Kinzler (daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de) wrote:

The fallback mechanism works OK, but is not great for English speaking users who
see a lot of items that have no English label. For English, we just don't know
what to fall back to. Just anything? Or try european languages first? What
should the rule be? If we can decide on a good rule, it should actualyl be
pretty simple to add such fallback for English.

One option is to allow users to define their own ranked preferences for language beyond just first place. (I personally would enjoy having French as a fallback to English.) This has the downside of only really working for people with accounts, which I suspect might be a minority of overall traffic.

Cheers,

James Hare