Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-04-03/News and notes



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 and—

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.

The Enforcement Guidelines now in force state:

As for systemic failure to follow or enforce the Code, the Guidelines state:

The "U4C" here refers to the UCoC Coordinating Committee that the WMF will form. The adoption of the Enforcement Guidelines attracted press coverage (see this issue's In the media section); the underlying Wikimedia Foundation press release is here. – AK

Policy on large language models still under development
An attempt to create a policy about AI-generated articles is happening at 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 & T

Brief notes

 * New user-groups: The Affiliations Committee announced the approval of this month's newest Wikimedia movement affiliate, the Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group.
 * Milestones: The following Wikimedia projects reached milestones this fortnight: Kinyarwanda Wikipedia reached 5,000 articles. Pennsylvania German Wikipedia reached 2,000 articles. Angika Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles.
 * 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), to be followed by St. Lawrence River on 10 April. Please be bold in helping improve these articles!
 * Not deleted, again: Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents survived its fourth nomination for deletion.