Sorry for the late, and brief, notification. but we;re in the last
hour of the Wikipedia Science conference in London; the hashtag is
#wikisci
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
We are getting close to the milestone of 5 million articles on English
Wikipedia.
Some ideas have previously been discussed at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29/Ar…
and I'd like to build off of those. Victor, would you have enough time in
your work calendar to make a brief celebration video?
Pine
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.
t: How large would a QR code need to be to scan all 24 trillion bytes of
English Wikipedia?
t: Vlogbrother @johngreen does the math of how to fit English Wikipedia –
on a QR code?
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
F/G: Vlogbrother John Green tackles the math and physics of encoding and
decoding Wikipedia ...onto a QR code.
F/G: The QR code for all of English Wikipedia is so large it would have to
be placed on the moon.
Thanks for reviewing!
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Michael Guss
Research Analyst
Wikimediafoundation.org
mguss(a)wikimedia.org
Hey all,
We just published "News on Wikipedia: Stock markets plunge, train attack
thwarted, and more" to the Wikimedia blog. URL:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/25/stocks-plunge-train-attack/
We plan to send out five pieces of social for this story, spread through
the rest of the week to keep things timely.
Please do comment for tone.
*Twitter:*
• An airshow jet crashed into cars on a busy road last week.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• The ancient Temple of Baalshamin in Syria has been destroyed by ISIL.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• This week wasn't great for stockbrokers. #NewsOnWikipedia
• A wildfire raging in Washington just became the state's largest ever.
#NewsOnWikipedia
• Train passengers fought off a gunman in France last week. #NewsOnWikipedia
*Facebook/G+:*
• At least eleven drivers were killed on Saturday as a jet plane crashed
into a busy English road. #NewsOnWikipedia
• The Temple of Baalshamin had stood for thousands of years. This week, it
was announced ISIL had destroyed it. #NewsOnWikipedia
• This wasn't a good week to be a stockbroker... #NewsOnWikipedia
• A wildfire in Washington state has now burnt through over 400 square
miles of land. #NewsOnWikipedia
• Seven train passengers were awarded France's highest honor for their role
in subduing a gunman. #NewsOnWikipedia
best,
Joe
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*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)>