I'm happy to stand corrected, haha! Always thought 24TB would be with
images.

Joe

On 28 August 2015 at 20:14, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2015-08-28 21:09 GMT+02:00 James Alexander <[email protected]>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> I checked the latest dump, it is 22 GB compressed, so 24 trillions bytes
> in text is possible.
>
> /Jan
>
>
>
>> James Alexander
>> Community Advocacy
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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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