Hi all,
I happened to notice that on a handful of artist pages that I’ve looked at, that the Wikipedia excerpt is in German. I was just wondering why that is.
Example: ListenBrainz
Probably because our founder is german!
(Just kidding, that seems like a bug, I’ll raise the issue with the team).
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Hi!
The simple answer is that no english version of this article exists, so we fall back to another version that does exist.
I suppose the utility of that is questionable, but I guess someone can use a translator to get the information they seek. 
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Actually, I think it’s very useful if you can read multiple languages (even if you can barely read the language, you can still get some information from it). And some information is always better than none!
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I agree it’s very useful in MusicBrainz - I do wonder if in ListenBrainz, which wants to be more generally welcoming and straightforward, it’s a bit too much though? 
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I don’t see why it would be different for ListenBrainz users versus MusicBrainz users. Are they less likely to be multilingual?
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Our target audience is consciously different - ListenBrainz aims to be much more accessible than MusicBrainz.
In MusicBrainz we would rarely, if ever, remove (useful) complexity in order to smooth the edges off the user experience, in ListenBrainz we will gear much more towards the lowest common denominator.
That said, I don’t think that means that we should remove non-user languages from the LB blurb, but maybe a tooltip or a note like (but better than):
Blurb from available Wikipedia languages
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I do appreciate the other languages. Partly because I understand German and French pretty well, but there’s more to it.
Example: Meindert Talma sings in Dutch (and Frysk, but that’s besides the point), his lyrics are very important to his music, so most (if not all) people who listen to him will understand Dutch. Which means quite some of the people who look at the page, will understand the article.
Also I feel like a LB page looks rather empty without the Wikipedia article. It looks like it doesn’t have that much to offer, something is lacking.
I do agree a blurb explaining it could be helpful. People who don’t know LB might mistake it for a website in another language.
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