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Allow showing languages other than the interface language in "depicts" statements on Commons
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The values of depicts statements in Commons are shown only in the interface language. I couldn't find a way to show them in any other language, except changing my interface language to something else.

Having to change the interface language is already overkill—it shouldn't be needed just to see how is something called in another language. But for some languages it makes it completely impossible to see the value at all, because they aren't defined as an interface language, and possibly never will be. This applies, for example, to languages that are extinct, and in which the MediaWiki won't be translated.

I suggest adding a language selector to the list of depicts statements, which would allow selecting any language that is valid in Wikidata, and wouldn't be limited only to interface language.

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I'm worried by this idea, both from a performance perspective but more importantly from an architectural perspective. The existing state of having both content language and interface language is complex enough; adding "please try to show me content in this language instead" language seems like a bad idea.