Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-04-03/News and notes
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Wikipedia's new sound logo
Wikipedia's new sound logo has been rolled out, as announced on Wikimedia News.
The Verge says the winner of the contest to create the sound was Thaddeus Osborne, "a nuclear engineer and part-time music producer from Virginia". Osborne describes the sound design as a combination of whirring pages and clicking keys.
Gizmodo says the sound is "cute". – B
WMF board has ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
The WMF has announced that the WMF board ratified the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines on 9 March 2023. This means the Enforcement Guidelines are now in force; they "may not be circumvented, eroded, or ignored by Wikimedia Foundation officers or staff nor local policies of any Wikimedia project."
A Voter Comments Report summarising community comments made as part of the recent community vote on the Enforcement Guidelines (see previous Signpost coverage) has been published as well. – AK
Policy on large language models under development
An attempt to create a policy about AI-generated articles is happening at Wikipedia:Large language models.
The draft policy as of this writing includes reiterations of existing content policies, including no original research and verifiability. The draft adds in-text attribution is necessary
for AI generated content.
In related news, the Wikimedia Foundation has published a "Copyright Analysis of ChatGPT" (which, despite the title, also touches on the subject of AI-generated images), and on March 23 held a community call on the topic of "Artificial Intelligence in Wikimedia" (meeting notes). – B & H
Brief notes
- New user-groups: The Affiliations Committee announced the approval of this month's newest Wikimedia movement affiliate, the .
- New administrators: The Signpost welcomes the English Wikipedia's newest administrators,
- Milestones: The following Wikimedia projects reached milestones this week:
- Global bans: Safaque / Safaque123 / Podcaster7 / TP495 / AAComposer / Drbenzene / InitiumNovum, since 21 March 2023; Samatics, since 28 March 2023.
- Articles for Improvement: This week's Article for Improvement is Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) (beginning 3 April). Please be bold in helping improve this article!
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