errr, I was typing a longer response but saw Joe's come in first and he basically covered it all :) so...what Joe said on all accounts. I like "You'd need 27 square kilometers to print a QR code of Wikipedia" Perhaps a leading question after that? "Where would you put that so that you could scan it?" may/may not push for comments on the facebook post as answers :).
James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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)> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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