[[Module:Infobox gene]] in enwiki generates an infobox by pulling data directly from Wikidata. However, editors porting this module to zhwiki can't find a proper way of falling back to enwiki articles for missing links (and yes, the labels are often missing as well). A dirty way that I have personally come up with is to fetch the whole entity and then use entity methods, but apparently this is expensive per the docs.

An additional optional argument to these two language-dependent methods which defaults to the current language/site (thus maintaining current behavior) will be useful for such cases.