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 :).

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:

It's Hank, not John!! :) @hankgreen

Comments below :)

Joe

On 28 August 2015 at 19:54, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> 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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