[Wikimedia-l] Re: Have you heard? We have a sound logo!

[Shakil hosen]

Dear Sound Logo team,

Congratulations on introducing the winning Wikimedia sound logo, the sound
of all human knowledge! It is fantastic to hear that the project was such a
success, and it's clear that a lot of hard work and dedication went into
creating such a significant achievement.

I appreciate the efforts of the screening team of volunteers, the selection
committee, the dynamic team of community liaisons, and all the contributors
who participated in on-wiki, virtual, or in-person conversations, listened,
shared, voted, or in any other way helped bring this project to life. It is
wonderful to see how everyone came together to nurture and improve this
initiative, resulting in a unique and valuable contribution to the
Wikimedia community.

Thank Shani for sharing the journey of this project.

Once again, congratulations to the Sound Logo team and community
collaborators on this remarkable achievement!


Cheers,
*Shakil Hosen *(he/him)

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 12:55 AM Shani Evenstein 
wrote:

> Hello everyone, and congratulations, all!
>
> It is exciting to see that this work is now complete and we have a winning
> sound selected by the movement!
>
> As some of you recall, between November 2020 and October 2021, I was the
> Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees’ ad hoc Brand
> Committee. This committee worked closely with WMF staff, as well as with 9
> advisors from our global community, to create a Brand strategy that would
> guide the Wikimedia Foundation’s work on Brand. Our work culminated in a
> Board resolution
> 
> on the topic, with one of the main areas of work being exploring the idea
> of creating a sound logo for the movement, in order to improve the
> attribution of Wikimedia content on audio devices. It was a priority for
> the Board that listeners accessing our content on audio devices have an
> opportunity to learn about the trusted source of their information, and
> that the thousands of volunteers creating our ecosystem receive the credit
> and recognition they deserve.
>
> I then had the pleasure of participating in the judging panel that led to
> the final 10 choices the community voted on.
>
> So it has been a 3-year-long fascinating journey, and I am extremely
> thankful and grateful for the effort, thoughtfulness and diligence of both
> our staff and volunteers, who made this happen the ‘wiki way’ – openly,
> collaboratively and with great care.
>
> Congratulations, Thaddeus, for the winning sound! Your contribution has
> now equipped our movement with a sound logo for audio devices and settings
> for years to come. I hope you join me in congratulating him and the team
> working on this.
>
> And of course, share the sound! I’ve already heard of someone making it
> into a ringtone, and I look forward to learning about additional creative
> ways we can use it to promote our work on free and open knowledge to
> everyone.
>
> Best,
>
> Shani
>
> Shani Evenstein Sigalov
> 
>
> Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
>
> Chair, Community Affairs Committee
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 16:10, Mehrdad Pourzaki 
> wrote:
>
>> *Just in case the previous email arrived with the links all jumbled in
>> your inbox!!!*
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators,
>> it’s my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia
>> sound logo, the sound of all human knowledge. *Read the full story on
>> Diff and access translations. *
>>
>>
>> We invite you to listen and explore more sounds from the contest and to
>> visit the sound logo resource hub on Meta to learn more.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and
>> hear–them everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and
>> most importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and
>> practices, and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a
>> whole orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team of volunteers, the 
>> selection
>> committee, the dynamic team of community liaisons, and you. We are
>> grateful to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual, or in-person
>> conversations, listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to
>> help bring us to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture
>> this initiative, bring it to life, and make it better than originally
>> conceived. You can read more about the journey of this project from a
>> novel concept to a global contest and a community vote on wiki and Diff.
>>
>>
>> Thank you, very well played.
>>
>>
>> On behalf of the sound logo team,
>>
>> Mehrdad
>>
>>
>> Useful links
>>
>>-
>>
>>*The winning sound:
>>
>> 

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to episode 23 of WikiAfrica Hour titled "Gender Focus"

[Ceslause Ogbonnaya]

Dear all,

It is my pleasure to invite you to commemorate the International Women's
Rights Month 2023 with us on episode 23 of WikiAfrica Hour titled *Gender
Focus.*

We will be spotlighting the achievements, challenges, lessons and prospects
of gender gap initiatives.

Guests include:

   - Sunshine Fionah Komusana - Coordinator, #VisibleWikiWomen
   
   campaign by Whose Knowledge?
   
   - Ciell - Volunteer, WikiProject GenderGap
   
   - Masana Mulaudzi - Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs, Wikimedia
   Foundation
   
   - Alice Redhotroof - Volunteer, #SheSaid
    campaign,
   Ukraine
   - Afek Ben Chahed - Coordinator, Wiki Loves Women
   

Date: 31st March 2023
Time: 4pm UTC
Details:w.wiki/5dft

Regards,
Ceslause Ogbonnaya
*Host, WikiAfrica Hour*
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Have you heard? We have a sound logo!

[Shani Evenstein]

Hello everyone, and congratulations, all!

It is exciting to see that this work is now complete and we have a winning
sound selected by the movement!

As some of you recall, between November 2020 and October 2021, I was the
Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees’ ad hoc Brand
Committee. This committee worked closely with WMF staff, as well as with 9
advisors from our global community, to create a Brand strategy that would
guide the Wikimedia Foundation’s work on Brand. Our work culminated in a
Board resolution

on the topic, with one of the main areas of work being exploring the idea
of creating a sound logo for the movement, in order to improve the
attribution of Wikimedia content on audio devices. It was a priority for
the Board that listeners accessing our content on audio devices have an
opportunity to learn about the trusted source of their information, and
that the thousands of volunteers creating our ecosystem receive the credit
and recognition they deserve.

I then had the pleasure of participating in the judging panel that led to
the final 10 choices the community voted on.

So it has been a 3-year-long fascinating journey, and I am extremely
thankful and grateful for the effort, thoughtfulness and diligence of both
our staff and volunteers, who made this happen the ‘wiki way’ – openly,
collaboratively and with great care.

Congratulations, Thaddeus, for the winning sound! Your contribution has now
equipped our movement with a sound logo for audio devices and settings for
years to come. I hope you join me in congratulating him and the team
working on this.

And of course, share the sound! I’ve already heard of someone making it
into a ringtone, and I look forward to learning about additional creative
ways we can use it to promote our work on free and open knowledge to
everyone.

Best,

Shani

Shani Evenstein Sigalov


Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

Chair, Community Affairs Committee

Wikimedia Foundation 


On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 16:10, Mehrdad Pourzaki 
wrote:

> *Just in case the previous email arrived with the links all jumbled in
> your inbox!!!*
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators,
> it’s my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia
> sound logo, the sound of all human knowledge. *Read the full story on
> Diff and access translations. *
>
>
> We invite you to listen and explore more sounds from the contest and to
> visit the sound logo resource hub on Meta to learn more.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and hear–them
> everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and most
> importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and practices,
> and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a whole
> orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team of volunteers, the selection
> committee, the dynamic team of community liaisons, and you. We are
> grateful to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual, or in-person
> conversations, listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to
> help bring us to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture
> this initiative, bring it to life, and make it better than originally
> conceived. You can read more about the journey of this project from a
> novel concept to a global contest and a community vote on wiki and Diff.
>
>
> Thank you, very well played.
>
>
> On behalf of the sound logo team,
>
> Mehrdad
>
>
> Useful links
>
>-
>
>*The winning sound:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sound_Logo_Finalist_VQ97.wav
>
> *
>-
>
>*The announcement on Diff + previous communications:
>
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/28/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/
>
> 
>   *
>-
>
>The resource page on Meta:
>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo
>-
>
>Category on Commons:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_sound_logo_submissions
>-
>
>Screening team experience:
>https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/31/screening-3235-sound-submissions/
>-
>
>The selection committee:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo/Contest_proposal#How_will_the_final_selection_happen?
>-
>
>Community liaisons:
>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Project_team
>-
>
>Community conversations:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Community_conversations
>
>
>
>
>
> *Mehrdad Pourzaki*
> Lead Movement 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: 23 March: Invitation to Open Community Call on ChatGPT, generative AI, and Wikimedia

[Jan Ainali]

Den tis 28 mars 2023 kl 12:08 skrev Lauren Worden :

> First, the Foundation should host a fork of BLOOM [
> https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom ], which if I remember correctly
> was described by the Foundation's Machine Learning Director Chris Albon as
> the only LLM at the scale of GPT-3 adhering to the movement's FOSS
> criteria.
>

No, BLOOM is not FOSS by any means.
It fails freedom 0 of the four freedoms from the Free Software
Foundation[1], and it is not recognized as an open source license by the
Open Source Institute (and will not be as it fails requirement 6 of the
open source definition[2]).
So that model, any other using the RAIL license, is a dead end.

/Jan

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
[2] https://opensource.org/osd/
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Have you heard? We have a sound logo!

[Mehrdad Pourzaki]

*Just in case the previous email arrived with the links all jumbled in your
inbox!!!*


Hi everyone,

On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators, it’s
my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia sound logo,
the sound of all human knowledge. *Read the full story on Diff and access
translations. *


We invite you to listen and explore more sounds from the contest and to
visit the sound logo resource hub on Meta to learn more.

Thank you!

Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and hear–them
everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and most
importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and practices,
and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a whole
orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team of volunteers, the selection
committee, the dynamic team of community liaisons, and you. We are grateful
to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual, or in-person
conversations, listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to
help bring us to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture
this initiative, bring it to life, and make it better than originally
conceived. You can read more about the journey of this project from a novel
concept to a global contest and a community vote on wiki and Diff.


Thank you, very well played.


On behalf of the sound logo team,

Mehrdad


Useful links

   -

   *The winning sound:
   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sound_Logo_Finalist_VQ97.wav
   
*
   -

   *The announcement on Diff + previous communications:
   
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/28/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/
   

 *
   -

   The resource page on Meta:
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo
   -

   Category on Commons:
   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_sound_logo_submissions
   -

   Screening team experience:
   https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/31/screening-3235-sound-submissions/
   -

   The selection committee:
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo/Contest_proposal#How_will_the_final_selection_happen?
   -

   Community liaisons:
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Project_team
   -

   Community conversations:
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo#Community_conversations





*Mehrdad Pourzaki*
Lead Movement Communications Specialist
wikimediafoundation.org





On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 9:57 AM Mehrdad Pourzaki 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators,
> it’s my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia
> sound logo
> ,
> the sound of all human knowledge. *Read the full story on Diff
> 
> and access translations. *
>
>
> We invite you to listen and explore
> 
> more sounds from the contest and to visit the sound logo resource hub on
> Meta  to learn
> more.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and hear–them
> everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and most
> importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and practices,
> and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a whole
> orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team
> 
> of volunteers, the selection committee
> ,
> the dynamic team of community liaisons
> ,
> and you. We are grateful to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual,
> or in-person conversations
> ,
> listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to help bring us
> to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture this
> initiative
> ,
> bring it to life, and make it better than originally conceived
> .
> You can read more about the journey of this project from a novel concept
> to a global contest
> 
> and a 

[Wikimedia-l] Have you heard? We have a sound logo!

[Mehrdad Pourzaki]

Hi everyone,

On behalf of the Sound Logo team of staff and community collaborators, it’s
my great pleasure to officially introduce the winning Wikimedia sound logo
,
the sound of all human knowledge. *Read the full story on Diff

and access translations. *


We invite you to listen and explore

more sounds from the contest and to visit the sound logo resource hub on
Meta  to learn
more.

Thank you!

Whether we personally use smart audio devices or not, we see–and hear–them
everywhere. Preparing Wikimedia content for audio settings and most
importantly, doing it in a way that was true to our values and practices,
and at the same time fun, was not an easy endeavour. We needed a whole
orchestra. Many thanks to the screening team

of volunteers, the selection committee
,
the dynamic team of community liaisons
,
and you. We are grateful to many of you who took part in on-wiki, virtual,
or in-person conversations
,
listened, shared, voted, or in any other way participated to help bring us
to where we are today. With your help, we were able to nurture this
initiative
,
bring it to life, and make it better than originally conceived
.
You can read more about the journey of this project from a novel concept to
a global contest

and a community vote
 on wiki and
Diff.


Thank you, very well played.


On behalf of the sound logo team,

Mehrdad


Useful links

   -

   The announcement on Diff + previous communications:
   
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/27/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/

   -

   The resource page on Meta:
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo
   -

   Category on Commons:
   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_sound_logo_submissions
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: 23 March: Invitation to Open Community Call on ChatGPT, generative AI, and Wikimedia

[Lauren Worden]

Since proposals which don't fit in to existing discussions elsewhere are on
topic here, I want to boldly recommend the following while the annual
planning process is still ongoing, because it's far beyond the scope of
what could be accomplished at a hackathon or on WMCS in a responsible
fashion:

First, the Foundation should host a fork of BLOOM [
https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom ], which if I remember correctly
was described by the Foundation's Machine Learning Director Chris Albon as
the only LLM at the scale of GPT-3 adhering to the movement's FOSS
criteria. This should be done under or alongside Toolforge on Wikimedia
Cloud Services so that staff and volunteers alike may use its API and
submit modification proposals for new instances. Presumably this would cost
on the order of $100,000 per year per instance, according to
https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom/discussions/161#63a33373b5fc9ab9f63d97f7
but someone should double-check that math. I've tested BLOOM against a
dozen of the uses shown around enwiki for GPT-3 and ChatGPT, and it seems
to perform about as well. (You can use the Hosted Inference API version on
Azure for free at the Huggingface URL.)

Secondly, the Foundation should sponsor staff-, grant-, affiliate-, and
volunteer-run projects to replicate and extend the work on:

A. RARR [ https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08726 ] and other methods of
attribution and verification with goals aspiring to Wikipedia's standards
of summarizing and citing sources in ways that can be independently
verified.

B. ROME [ https://rome.baulab.info/ / MEMIT: https://memit.baulab.info/ ]
and other approaches to knowledge editing in language models with the goal
of producing simple interfaces to provide "language models that anyone can
edit" and ideally coupled to Wikidata updates.

C. EditEval [ https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/1866/overview
], an ongoing challenge competition to produce systems capable of
automatically improving text, including its fluency, simplification,
paraphrasing, neutralization, and updating information.

I apologize to those on Thursday's Zoom call who had proposals for ORES
expansion to combat paid advocacy, images, audio, speech and video, as I
don't remember enough of the details and there's not enough information at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/Draft/External_Trends/Community_call_notes
to include them here. I hope the advocates will elucidate those proposals
on list while the annual planning process is still in progress.

-LW

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 1:04 PM Yael Weissburg 
wrote:

> Hello again everyone,
>
> Thanks again to those who made it to the call last week - it felt like
> such a luxury to be able to drop deeply into this subject for an hour
> (plus) with all of you.
>
> For those who were unable to join, we captured extensive notes on Meta
> .
> I hope we continue the vibrant discussion we started together on the Talk
> Page. Maybe someone can use that space to volunteer to host the next call?
> I know many folks are eager to continue the live discussion too.
>
> I also wanted to share a few links / resources that might be useful (I'll
> add these to the Talk page as well):
>
>- WMF's Legal team recently did a copyright analysis of ChatGPT. You
>can find that on Meta
>
>.
>- There is a proposed session on ChatGPT / generative AI for the
>Wikimedia Hackathon in May. You can find that on Phabricator
>.
>
> Finally, a huge thank you to @Maryana Pinchuk  who
> took the extensive and detailed notes on the call and also did a lot of
> "wrangling" behind the scenes to help draft the External Trends in the
> first place and get us to a point where we could have this discussion.
> Thank you, Maryana!
>
> Feel free to reach out anytime to connect about this or other topics. I'll
> be in Belgrade for the EduWiki conference in May and Singapore for
> Wikimania - if you're coming to either of those events or in the area, let
> me know - I'd love to meet in person!
>
> Best,
>
> Yael
>
> *Yael Weissburg* (she/her)
> VP, Partnerships, Programs & Grantmaking
> Wikimedia Foundation 
> M: (+1) 415.513.6643
> I work from San Francisco. My time zone is UTC -7/-8.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 2:02 AM Paulo Santos Perneta <
> paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, please, make this a regular event, at least for the time being.
>> These discussions are incredibly useful, given the speed the developments
>> are happening in this area, and the complexity of the challenges we are
>> facing due to them.
>> And thank's a lot for organizing the meeting yesterday!
>>
>> Paulo
>>
>> Samuel Klein  escreveu no dia quinta, 23/03/2023 à(s)
>> 

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Tuesday, March 28 is the final date of submission of program proposal for Wikimania 2023

[Butch Bustria]

Hi Everyone,

Today, Tuesday, March 28 is the final date of program proposal submission
for Wikimania 2023.

We are elated to receive more than 300 program proposal submissions for
Wikimania 2023.

This is not just for onsite in Singapore. Please consider submitting a
poster session proposal or a pre-recorded video session format. We love to
see your proposals under these session formats as well!

To submit one, just click the blue button at
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions


Kind regards,

*Butch Bustria*
Event Lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
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