I actually think it likely is "roughly" correct, I'm looking it up now,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia we said it was 10
Trillion in 2013 and we've grown quite a lot since then.

James Alexander
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Wikimedia Foundation
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree Jan. I think its best not use that in direct copy.
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I think it would be worth cross checking wth analytics if 24 trillion
>> bytes is correct. It sounds a lot to me.
>>
>>
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>> 2015-08-28 21:01 GMT+02:00 Michael Guss <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Arghhhhhh!!! It is Hank!
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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