 Hello everyone! Welcome to this session about SouthPetia.wiki, a new tool to listen to wikipedia using QR codes. First of all, a quick presentation about myself. My name is Yemen, I'm from Tunisia. I'm the co-founder of wikimedia Tunisia and the wiki world data user group, and the co-founder of the wiki conference wiki arabia. So today we're going to talk about qrpedia and we'll see the new solution. So as you may know, qrpedia was a project for a mobile web-based system that used qrcodes to deliver wikipedia articles to users in their preferred language. qrpedia was conceived by Roger Bumkin, a wikipedia volunteer from UK, coded by Terran Sweden and invented in IPR 2011. So basically qrpedia server used wikipedia IPI to determine whether there is a version of the specified wikipedia article in the language used by the device. So we scan the qr code and based on the language of the device, the qrpedia system will open the wikipedia page in that language. So this was very useful and it has been used in museums, in England institutions, historical cities like you can see here, the project in Tunisia, in Medina at the old city of Tunis, used also in symmetries. So it was a very useful tool and still a very useful tool. Nevertheless, in some occasion, listening to the article can be better than reading, especially for someone moving around. So for example, if you are in historical city or museum, instead of reading the wikipedia article, maybe it's better to listen to it. So from this came the idea of southpedia.wiki. So what is southpedia? So southpedia is a generated qr code for wikipedia article, will be related to monument, museum collection, anything that has wikipedia page. That once scan by mobile device, allows the user to listen to the wikipedia page available in the mobile and phone language. So in more details, the tool is deployed on toolfirst.org and the load generation of qr code related to wikipedia article that once scan it will fetch the wiki data item for that article and then open if available the audio file from comments for the wikipedia article using the wikipedia data property P989, spoken text audio. If there is no pre-recorded audio on comments, southpedia will generate an audio from the lead of the main entrance of the wikipedia article using CSS text to speech system. The project was a joint development project between wikipedia to ease the wikipedia page and data engineering and semantic research from the University of Svax and myself and my friend Hossein worked on this project for this beta version. So let's try it. So for example, we have this very famous mosaics in the national baritone museum in Tunisia, depicting the poet version. So this mosaics has wikipedia articles in French and English and on wiki data we were able to link pre-recorded audio file that has been uploaded on comments, one in French and one in English. Using the property spoken text audio 989 on wikipedia. Using southpedia we can generate one QR code, so as you can see it on the right hand side of the slide. This QR code if you scan it, if your phone is in English then you listen to the wikipedia article in English. If your phone is in French then you can listen to the wikipedia in French. If there is an article in Arabic and your phone uses Arabic language then you will listen to the wikipedia article in Arabic. Whether you will listen to a pre-recorded file that has been uploaded on comments or text generated automatically by the system. So you can, if you have, currently it's working fine on Android mobile with some issues on the mobile phones. If you have some Android you can check this, you can scan this code and then you will listen to the article. A few seconds to if you try to scan the QR codes. So this tool can be very useful for example to use your phone as an audio device in a museum in a city to scan the QR codes for monuments for mosaics or paintings or statues and listening to the related wikipedia articles. The goal of this tool of course to provide a better experience to the user who is going to scan the QR code but also it can be also motivation to generate more wikipedia articles, to generate more pre-recorded audio files on comments. So it will motivate the community to work and to produce more content. So it has double goal. One for the community to produce more content wikipedia audio files and a better experience to the user who is going to scan these QR codes and to listen to the wikipedia article. What is next for example, we can also improve the tool to be based on augmented reality. So one of the limitations of I mean the south pedia it's based on QR codes. So it requires that there is a generated code that we need to place in front of the monument or in the museum, but using the augmented reality is possible that the system detects the monument or detects the piece exposed in the museum and then trigger automatically the audio file related to the wikipedia article. So this is can be a next step to improve it. Thank you very much. If you have questions. I would be happy to answer them. So again just to the. This tool is inspired from queer pedia and has the advantage to be multilingual so use it one one quote. It's possible to have to listen to different language to different article in different languages can be in English and French and Chinese in Spanish. So, of course, this is what requires that we need to create the wikipedia article and this is a motivation for the community to work and document the document the monument and museums. So, these questions, it's work wonderful in English, however, there is a problem with the other languages. So for the other language, I think the problem when there is no audio file on comments. So, for a better experience, it's, it's good to, I mean, to record wikipedia articles and to upload it in comments. uploading recording wikipedia article and upload to comments can be used but can be also used by by other people who cannot read correctly wikipedia article so they can listen to it so it's a motivation to provide more audio content on comments as well. So, the problem can can happens when there is no pre recorded audio files on comments so that the system will try to generate text to speech audio file and this can can of course it's automatic generation so we can have some issues. But if you are going to use this tool in a project in museum or in a word heritage city. So the community will try to document all the monuments and record articles and upload them on comments and make these audio files available for everyone and it can also be used in relation with the blind user group for example to record this audio files as well. So, I would like to thank my friend for Sam for working on this project together. And we hope to keep working on it and prove it and to also integrate the augmented reality features so we don't need to share it with us anymore and the system will be able to detect automatically the monuments or the So, thank you very much. Thank you for all the team behind Kimania, the COT team and all the volunteers and the production team for this opportunity and goodbye.