Vlogbrother @Hankgreen sends Wikipedia to the moon. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:07 PM, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Katherine Maher Chief Communications Officer Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 +1 (415) 712 4873 [email protected]
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