Hello,
Wikidata dev here. Technically, Wikidata uses the language of wikis to show to the users (changing that assumption and having a list of sites that should show a different language than their actual language is not that hard but not that easy either). And the language of these wikis are indeed English. It's the language of the interface (e.g. when you visit the commons.wikimedia.org logged-out). Having a different interface language requires you to copy-paste all of English translations of the interface there in translatewiki (and keep it updated, etc.) which can be quite challenging.

my 2c.
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:53 PM Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:

I think that's awfully sad! - But, to the original question, can someone tell me where the language code, whether en or mul/und part would appear at all? I don't understand what is being discussed. When I look at current interwiki links on WD, I see they have their language code next to it - surely the Multilingual Wikisource entries should not have "en" - is that the question here?

It doesn't appear anywhere on the Wikidata interface (AFAIK) but it is stored in the data and you can see it when doing a SPARQL query (like the one I gave before, more specifically with the schema:inLanguage predicate), probably in other tools reusing the data (through the API for instance).

Right now, (at least) 6 multilingual projects are tagged as in English: Commons, Meta, Species, Multilingual Wikisource, Mediawiki and Wikidata.

Cdlt,
~nicolas
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