It's Hank, not John!! :) @hankgreen Comments below :)
Joe On 28 August 2015 at 19:54, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > YouTube personalities, the "Vlogbrothers", have a video of how one could > encode and decode all of English Wikipedia onto a QR code. It's fantastic! > > > t: Could you get all of English Wikipedia by scanning one QR code? Vlogbro > @johngreen finds out. > @hankgreen :) > > t: How large would a QR code need to be to scan all 24 trillion bytes of > English Wikipedia? > I like this, needs a "the" before "English" though. > > t: Vlogbrother @johngreen does the math of how to fit English Wikipedia – > on a QR code? > Again, @hankgreen :) > > F/G: How big would the QR code need to be to fit all 24 trillion bytes of > English Wikipedia? We'd have to put it on the moon. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH9S9jTfUIU > Just leave this as a question I think. > > > > F/G: Vlogbrother John Green tackles the math and physics of encoding and > decoding Wikipedia ...onto a QR code. > I feel like it would be good to make light of the size of the QR code. Something like "You'd need 27 square kilometers to print a QR code of Wikipedia" or something more engaging! > F/G: The QR code for all of English Wikipedia is so large it would have to > be placed on the moon. > I like this!! > > Thanks for reviewing! > > > > -- > Michael Guss > Research Analyst > Wikimediafoundation.org > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>
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