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== Objects table ==
Thanks for replying. The current table in the main text looks good, but still it is a ''description'' or just ''enumeration'' of game objects, not an ''explanation'' (or in some cases: partly an explanation). Supposing we keep the current structure, it is possible to add explanations for the planet names in the '''Explanation''' column. For example, first sentence of the second paragraph is a good ''explanation'' for the Uzumaki planet's name. On the other hand, Andal has only a ''description'' (what it looks like and what features are present on the surface) and no ''explanation'' (that it refers to Animorphs series of books). There's also a question where one should put explanations of items and messages. Some do not need an explanation ('You found a stick'), but most do: what they mean and what they refer to, both in xkcd context (such as when there's a comic about the thing) and in general context. I hope you understand the difference between ''description'' and ''explanation''. Maybe there's also some misunderstanding resulting from a language barrier; English is not my native language.

What is also missing in the table are many structures or objects found on the planets and, most importantly, dialogues or monologous of the characters, which contain many puns and references, and also hints for the player. There's simply no place for them in the current structure. Making more columns may be messsy. That's why I proposed making several tables covering different aspects.

Please take my remarks as proposals to improve the structure and not as a criticism or request for you to make everything right and fill every cell of the table. I think we need to create a clear structure for everyone else to fill in with details; but also to provide good examples to follow.

Technical remarks:
* In my opinion, the filename column is not needed, it does not appear anywhere while playing, it's in source code only. Better remove it to have more horizontal space for the rest. The names given to the planets by the editors of the explanation page shown in the Description column are fine.
* Coordinates are also not useful for a regular player, who does not use some Javascript addition/cheats, maybe remove it as well; textual directions in '''Explanation''' column are sufficient.

-- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 19:59, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
:> Thanks for replying. The current table in the main text looks good, but still it is a ''description'' or just ''enumeration'' of game objects, not an ''explanation'' (or in some cases: partly an explanation). Supposing we keep the current structure, it is possible to add explanations for the planet names in the '''Explanation''' column. For example, first sentence of the second paragraph is a good ''explanation'' for the Uzumaki planet's name. On the other hand, Andal has only a ''description'' (what it looks like and what features are present on the surface) and no ''explanation'' (that it refers to Animorphs series of books).
:Hey! Yeah, that's the state of the table ''right now'', and I 100% percent agree with everything you're saying here. All planets and items that need an explanation should be explained and not just described. I mostly just copied and pasted the "planet description/explanations" from the old list to the table: creating the table was way more painful than i thought. I was actually surprized to see that nobody explained what Andal referred to, but I don't know anything about it so more knowledgeable people will have to chip in on that

:>There's also a question where one should put explanations of items and messages. Some do not need an explanation ('You found a stick'), but most do: what they mean and what they refer to, both in xkcd context (such as when there's a comic about the thing) and in general context. I hope you understand the difference between ''description'' and ''explanation''.
:I do! And I wish other people could help here. I'm not sure if you've seen it, but this is the banner i put above the table:
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'''ALL ITEM EXPLANATIONS NEED TO BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE OLD PLANET LIST TO THE NEW TABLE''' 
We are currently switching from a disorganized list (below, inside the green banner) to the new organized table, but the explanations for specific items are missing from the new table. Please help by copying the item explanations from the old list and adding them to the new table ''in this format:'' 
<code>The item message &ndash; <nowiki>''Where to find it &ndash; Explanation, such as references etc''</nowiki></code> 
Example: You found a cheese platter (Your tanks recharge faster) – ''Next to the cell tower – The cheese is a reference to [https://example.com 1234: Cheese]''
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'''OTHER ISSUES:'''
* upgrades that end in "???" need to be replaced by the exact upgrade message shown to the user.
* the "Tiles (X, Y)" column for planet coordinates is empty

:As you can see, the explanations should be put right next to the items and messages. Unfortunately no one has started to add them to the table yet

:> Maybe there's also some misunderstanding resulting from a language barrier; English is not my native language.
:Your English is excellent :)

:> dialogues or monologous of the characters, which contain many puns and references, and also hints for the player. There's simply no place for them in the current structure. Making more columns may be messsy. That's why I proposed making several tables covering different aspects.
Almost all the dialogues are on the [[2765: Escape Speed/Transcript]] page, so I guess they should be added there. I don't know if they're already here, I haven't looked at it enough
:: The transcript is not the place for explanations. Puns and references shall be explained elsewhere. I continue working on the transcript but there's still quite a way to go. -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 5 May 2023

:> Please take my remarks as proposals to improve the structure and not as a criticism or request for you to make everything right and fill every cell of the table. I think we need to create a clear structure for everyone else to fill in with details; but also to provide good examples to follow.
:Yeah; i totally get everything you said. In my last reply I think I was a bit too rude for some reason, maybe it's because I just finished the table and was tired.

:>* In my opinion, the filename column is not needed, it does not appear anywhere while playing, it's in source code only. Better remove it to have more horizontal space for the rest. The names given to the planets by the editors of the explanation page shown in the Description column are fine.
:* Coordinates are also not useful for a regular player, who does not use some Javascript addition/cheats, maybe remove it as well; textual directions in '''Explanation''' column are sufficient.
I was heavily inspired by the table in the [[2712: Gravity]] explanation, which included these. I kind of agree that the filename could be removed, and the filenames could be added to the planet name or explanation, i didn't think about that. About the tiles, someone might use them someday, but if the column keeps remaining empty, i don't mind seeing it disappear

:I really liked your ideas, if you don't mind I'll copy and paste this discussion in the actual comic discussion page and see what others think --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 21:37, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

::Update: I found a way and added all the coordinates, and moved the planet filenames to the Planet Name column to make more space for the other columns :)

::: Hi, what about dividing planets and objects like in [[User:Malgond/Drafts/Escape_Speed|my experiment]]? There's plenty of horizontal space for explanations and the entries are quite compact vertically. I also think about color-coding the different Types of game objects. -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 5 May 2023

::::Hmm, I think it looks a little messy and maybe too complicated. Do any other comics have two different tables? Also, I'm personally not a fan of mixing items, landscapes, and people. I think most people reading the table are there to get an overview of the planets and what they contain. Do we really have to explain everything in such detail? [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 14:09, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

:::::We do not have to follow other explanations too closely, we could use a new form if it seems clearer and better. The current form has no place neither for explaining items nor for dialogues/monologues. More columns could be problematic (specifically in today's world of high and narrow screens of smartphones). Should we explain everything? Well, it us up to collective "us". Personally, I would like someone explain a few puns/dialogues I do not understand.
:::::For now, there's only a handful of people still interested in somehow finishing the explanation for this huge comic. Maybe if we two can agree on some format we could put it in discussion page and ask for votes. (Discussion needs a cleanup, BTW). -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 22:00, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

:::::Hey, I'm back. I see you're enhancing your example table, and iI was wondering, do you plan to move your edits to the actual article after you're done and use the test to see how the formatting looks? Isn't it easier to just add them to the main page directly? Just wondering. If you want I can help you port them over :)
:::::Keeping the contents of the table on your talk page and then porting them over afterwards could lead to a loss of information added after you started editing your user page [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 13:11, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

::::::I'm back too. Yes, I intend to put it in the main article, but I am a bit shy to replace a lot of your work; I've asked for opinions in the talk page. Let's see how it sorts out. Maybe someone has a still better idea. -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 21:50, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

::::::Oh. I think the structure of the current table in the article is better than the one you've been working on: for example, it's easier to sort for items, is more compact, and is just one. Why don't you just add a "transcript" column like the table on [[2712: Gravity]] to put what things and people say, and add the rest of the information on the respective columns? Personally, I think you're making it a little bit too complicated. [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:26, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

== Haltones ==

"They're not **predominantly** gray, the two main colors are just white and black. Sometimes he uses the gray color just like when he uses any other color" ... It didn't say that they were predominantly grey(/'gray'), any more than it said that they'd be predominently black (as [[:Category:Comics with inverted brightness]], often, in preference to white). The point being that even the most "black and white" images aren't monochrome, but have degrees of grey at the boundaries, with smoothly antialiased boundaries between the full black of the line (or filled area) and the full white of the background (or inverted detail). You'll see this if you zoom in, with your favourite image editor. And very often in images with a default RGB colourspace, even if the effective pallette employed covers just greyscale values. But greys actually do feature a lot, too (often the first choice of non-black-and-white, for slight lessening of prominence, as opposed to 'red pen' ''increased'' visibility). So it's technically inaccurate to describe them as pretty much monochrome. But how to convey this in <...counts...> less than 157ish words? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.173|172.71.242.173]] 16:35, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
:The wiki page says
::::"xkcd comics are usually plain, predominantly black-and-white line drawings, but sometimes they make use of hues beyond the usual monochrome colors, even if it is just red-penned annotations.
:I think it's enough, since, even if grey is more used than other non-monochrome colors, I don't believe it's so important that it needs to be included as a "third" main color. If Randall uses many bright colors, that he will obviously also use simpler hues of grey when needed. What do you think? [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:51, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
:Aside from the antialising edging gradient, I just used the Random Page link and landed on [[1301: File Extensions|something with functional greys]], [[734: Outbreak|an unusual use of 'Post-It' yellow]], an unremarkably "just black pen" comic and then [[1788: Barge|more functional grey]]. I'd argue against "monochrome" as a description, as clearly there is more than just #000000 and #FFFFFF, often enough, in an actual fill-colour/broad-brush context. Even if that's #808080 or another no-hue shade. (I was expecting to land on a "grey pen" comic to assess, after enough clicks but, having seen what I got in the random first handful, I saw no need to go on.)
:And "monochrome" can be/often is coloured. Sepia photographs or "night vision" green displays are perfect examples of monochrome (with or without halftones/dithering/whatever). As is [[267: Choices: Part 4]] (other Choices comics may be considered "duotone", in different ways).
:Maybe "...are often drawn as black shapes on white, or occasionally white shapes on a dark background, but may feature at least one additional highlighting shade or an even fuller colour pallette." Does that sufficiently cover that whole breadth of use? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.154|172.70.86.154]] 19:48, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

== Childish slang. ==

Agree with you on the recent change that you (generic 'you', not ''you'' 'you'!) sound infantile, any which way, upon use of the words mentioned. Which is how it was still said before the revert in that version of edit. But with <code>"pretty gay" and "retarded" are infantile and offensive slang for "foolish" or "contemptible"</code>, you miss the point. Foolishness is just one distant contender for what "pretty gay" is often intended to mean (even if not actually being used for someone/something 'effeminate'). And "retarded" is more in the whole "thick, stupid, dumb" line of insult than "contemptible" (which is more "horrible, dislikable, repulsive"..?).
 Personally, I also thought it better with not actually defining insults (correctly or otherwise), as it adds power to them. I can call someone a "numpty" in jest, for example, and colloquially that might be understood as the low-level insult (if that) which it is intended to be. But if I start to bandy around its {{wiktionary|numpty#Scots|dictionary definition}} then it becomes more of a seriously accusatory description.
 Just my opinion. Not really understanding the latest revert when it had seemed to be improved (if anything) in the version you reverted away. Just putting it there. I know you're doing a lot of editing (good stuff!) just wondering if you considered this one carefully enough in your obvious zeal. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.182.89|172.71.182.89]] 16:31, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
:Addendum. Meant to say, if you decide to undo/reform your own revert (I won't do it, but on the offchance you see my point), I'd have not said "''commonly'' used". They're used in slang, but I don't think we can say how frequently they pop up. They're "used in slang" (and also not in slang, or at least not insulting slang, where "gay" has a long history of just meaning "happy", whilst "retarded" is often to do with decceleration/minimised acceleration of physical systems) but I'm not sure they're no more than minority words in the whole world of such language. They depict a subset of insult-givers (like the character in the comic, for whom it adds a certain additional characterisation) amongst all the many and varied insult-givers, and Randall surely chose such semi-bowlderised terms to not have to write any of all the far worse words he might also have done. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.94.31|172.71.94.31]] 16:46, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

== IP page to delete ==

I didn't see your thinking about why the Deletion category was not needed there. And, believe me as an IP myself, I've never known anything useful being said on an IP's User or User Talk page. With that example not breaking the pattern any. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.131|172.70.85.131]] 00:41, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
:I just don't think there's a reason to delete it, it's useful to have a previous talk page if the IP continues to edit and people want to communicate with them [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:51, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
::"The IP" is whichever one of 'us' happens to land on that particular Cloudflare route.
::I'm not going to go back and find out which IP it represents, to check if it's in their current stock of connected gateways, but it might not be. Or it was even (depending on date) a pre-Cloudflare 'straight' access unproxied and thus no longer seen, even if the exact same editor on the exact same IP lucked on ''their'' initial gateway.
::Certainly it won't map to a meaningful 'user', chances may even be that it doesn't map to ''any'' user. IP-version User/User Talk pages are anachronisms pretty much as soon as they're created. Or before, if based upon trying to contact an author of an older edit. I was on 172.70.85.131, above, but who knows (before I submit it) what this reply's sign-off will say.
::And a one-shot editor may never ever see the results of any conversation that was tried to be started. Whereas I ''might'' see any response, anywhere, that contextually makes it plain that they're talking about an edit I once made.
::Honestly, I think it'd be worthwhile checking ''every'' IP-focussed namespace page and archiving anything truly interesting that found itself in there in some other central location then condemning them all to deletion. Maybe, if possible, prevent their creation too. But I don't have the ability to do anything (except sift through them for any of the very rare gems of quality, but I wouldn't be able to do anything about it from there on in, so...
::...not gonna do anything more about it (I can't, other than reinstate the To Be Deleted membership, whch I won't bother with), but I hope you understand my perspective on this. I've seen you become a very useful member of the community, who I generally respect for your input and tweaks to the site, and don't expect you to take instruction from li'l ol' me (not even working with an established identity). Just consider this as food for thought, and leave it at that if you wish. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.19|162.158.34.19]] 20:12, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

== RTL/LTR: "...but I think it refers to me" ==

Yeah, it does. The point being that we might not do anything about the smartarses who vandalise knowingly (and I don't see a problem with what you otherwise did), but when someone thinks ''they'' have unique and funny joke (along the lines of putting "Citation needed"s ''everywhere'') they might spot the comment and then realise how we've seen it all done before so refrain from the prank. I can't even recall how many times we have had to revert things, but best to put off the casual comedian, and it won't change the outcome either way for the dedicated vandal with their blood up and looking to cause trouble. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.107|141.101.98.107]] 20:00, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
:I guess you're right, I just thought it was very clear for everyone that rendering an entire article unreadable was an act of pure vandalism, but I guess an editor comment doesn't hurt. [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:53, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

== The reason "the image size wasn't there"? ==

...because it didn't need an image-size restriction, originally? Compare the [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:Miss_lenhart.png previous and current version sizes]. Nice to have a (''huge!'') high-res headshot, no doubt, but clearly that's why you found that it now needs artificially constraining... No actual mystery. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.63|172.70.85.63]] 17:16, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

:Yeah you're right, I just assumed every comic had the image size to be future-proof. The weird thing was that the "imagesize: " part was already there, but there was no value. Anyway, nothing important.

== I disagree with Oxford commas. ==

"For breakfast I had some bread, toast, and jam." - A legitimate(ish) case of ", and ". Or "I created the world, and saw that it was good." I otherwise prefer to suscribe to replacing all non-final conjunctions in sequence with commas but ''not'' adding one before the ultimate (remaining) conjunction. That's like having "Fish, and chips", where it isn't an actual afterthought. And best to rephrase or repunctuate (e.g. with super-listing semicolons to separate) if you have confusing comma-breakout clauses that ''so'' easily clash (or lead you down funny garden paths) with Oxford Commas. My opinion, but this is why syntax is clearer when leaving out OCs. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.93|172.70.85.93]] 13:59, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
:I just think it's better to use it everywhere to avoid any possible confusion. If we used it half the time, it would be inconsistent. But it's no big deal.
::Similarly, no big deal. Except that it ''looked'' like an error. You've done a lot of useful changes, recently... A ''lot''... Which is not a bad thing, I must add. Occasionally I've seen what (I thought!) you intended to say, and I've helped out with a misplaced word or two. And I honestly do not feel like OCs read correctly in many circumstances. How would you even OC something like "...you should paint it red, yellow or, maybe, orange"?
::The comma already does a lot of heavy lifting, four or five different uses can occur in the same sentence, with it commonly doing duty as a sub-clause parenthetical (except without the clear open/close distinction of an actual parenthetical) ''as well as'' conjunction-replacement within a list. You will find many instances of non-OCed lists on the site. In fact I find the "Please note that all contributions to explain xkcd..." bit, below this edit box, to be the exception and not the rule.
::Anyhoo... I 'corrected' an example, but did not re'correct' it once you made it obvious what rule you were working to. I think you're less right than me, naturally, even if I wouldn't say that you're more wrong. ;) But I thought I'd make you a brief note of my thoughts rather than edit-warring the issue. Less brief, now, but I hope you still take it in good humour. (Oh, yeah, I'm sort of Ok with Oxford Spelling, insofar as it's mostly what I use naturally. Except for the "-ize" bit. That and their Comma are totally against how I was taught at school, a number of decades ago. :P ) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.71|172.71.242.71]] 15:26, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
:::You really seem to care about this a lot more than I do, if you want feel free to revert my edit back. I'm not even sure why we're here talking about commas lol
:::I'm no expert and I just like commas. Thanks for checking my edits, I think I've seen a few of your corrections. I have a lot of free time at the moment and I seem to like fixing up unorganized things here --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 21:42, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

== Science Girl/Hairbun ==

You may have noted that several of the Talk pages attached to those you changed already had discussions about whether someone was Hairbun or (a possibly grown-up version of) Science Girl, and you had people like Kynde support the change ''to'' treating her as Science Girl. No skin off my nose, but I'm not sure your arguments are strong enough to support your broad sweep changes in that regard. I think I'd side with "bun with trailing hair" being SG (regardless of apparent age/maturity, as the description only really says ''usually'' a child, whether you take that as prescriptivist or descriptivist) but not enough that I'd reverse your considerable efforts in this matter. But on the off-chance that you hadn't noticed the prior discussions and conclusions, before making your own assessment. FYI, only. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.204|172.71.178.204]] 14:01, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

:I will properly reply to you tomorrow since it's midnight here. Btw thanks for letting me know these hyperlinks were rendered correctly, and for fixing my 1 typo <s>(after i corrected 100)</s>
::Guys, some things may be being taken too seriously. Assuming [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1608:_Hoverboard&diff=prev&oldid=317396 this was the 'one error'], yeah, the Pedant's Curse hits us all, that's the point. Easy to see how it was done (read as "a Category:Interactive..." rather than "an interactive", or whatever). Happens to the best of us, when concentrating on loads of other things. Not sure about the Jill thing, at all, myself, but that discussion is probably for soewhere else. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.158|172.69.79.158]] 22:22, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

:::Nonononono I wasn't serious when I thanked you about the typo, I was also just kidding. I was joking about how after I corrected a ton of typos I added one more.
:::On the main topic you brought up: I think Jill's main characteristics (I'll talk about why I renamed her) are that she is a child, she is usually interested in science, and has always one or two buns with trailing hair. [[Hairbun]] isn't as defined as Jill: she just has a bun. This is what the page [[Hairbun]] (written entirely by Kynde, I haven't reformatted to remove the bullet points yet), say about the bun:
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:::*Her appearance, apart from her glasses, can also change.
:::**In 703: Honor Societies, 708: Sex Dice, 1511: Spice Girl, 1601: Isolation and in every instance in 1608: Hoverboard her hair looks somewhat different, curly and with some kind of ponytail, but since '''her main distinguishing characteristic is the hair bun''', these comics are included.
:::[...]
:::*There are some characters with hair buns that are not Hairbun:
:::**Since she is a grown woman, she should not be confused with Jill or any other small girls with hair bun like in 1584: Moments of Inspiration.
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:::And on the Page for Jill, before I ever touched it, it said:
:::*As she is usually also clearly a child she usually cannot be confused with Hairbun
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:::Kynde mentioned [[1511: Spice Girl]] and [[1601: Isolation]] as featuring Hairbun and not Jill, but they look exactly like a grown-up Jill. Plus, on the gallery section on [[Hairbun]] (I'm working on adding back a better one since the old one was kinda broken UPDATE 11:13, 8 July 2023 (UTC): Added the gallery back with vector images), this was the first picture of Hairbun:
:::[[File:Hair Bun Girl with curly hair and ponytail.png]]

:::So, to recap: Hairbun has always had a version with a bun with trailing hair, but it was inconsistent between comics, so I settled on Jill is a girl that always has trailing hair and Hairbun is an adult that sometimes has trailing hair.

:::On the topic of renaming Jill:
:::*I searched the wiki for Jill and found 3 discussions. One of them ended up "why world we even create a page for that girl, there aren't many comics featuring her.", but didn't criticize the name too much iirc
:::*We did the same thing for [[Danish]]. The only time she was given ''any'' name ("Danish in the sense of "darling" iirc), that was the name used.
:::*If we change our minds and Jill also becomes a woman, we don't have to remove the "girl" part.
:::*I'm not sure about this, but I think she's slowing being added more and more outside science comics.

:::Wow this was long --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:20, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

== In reply to [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2794:_Alphabet_Notes&curid=26437&diff=321127&oldid=320916 this query]... ==

There's {{w|Welsh orthography|the Welsh}}, at the very least! (Well, you did ask! Even if it's truly not so relevent. ;) ) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.159|172.70.86.159]] 11:29, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
:Lol. TIL! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 20:13, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

== Plural animals ==

Following on from Ferret->Ferrets, what about the last remaining singular that is Category:Apatosaurus? (I must admit, all your edits/re-edits are making my head spin, as worthy as they often are, but this seems like the next logical step that I thought you might have done to finish that particular neatening job.) But I'll leave it up to you as to whether it's Apatosauruses, Apatosaurii or whatever else you might consider most appropriate... ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.98|172.70.85.98]] 10:15, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
:I actually thought about it, and I came to the conclusion that I don't know what the plural of that word is. Feel free to research if there's a "right" word and rename that category :)
:> (I must admit, all your edits/re-edits are making my head spin,
:Yeah I don't really organize everything I want to change beforehand, so whenever i notice a little thing is missing, I add it to every page that needs it. I guess it's easier to review my edits in bulk from a page's version history lol --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

== Community portal spam ==
The spammers seem to be deleting text from Community Portal. [[User:ConscriptGlossary|ConscriptGlossary]] ([[User talk:ConscriptGlossary|talk]]) 07:28, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
:Thanks, but I couldn't find any recent example concerning me. Do you mind giving an example? --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 07:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

== Possible Adminship? ==

Hi FaviFake, I’m Victoria. I’m planning on reaching out to Jeff via Twitter/X because there’s a long list of things that only he can do. You can see the list at my [[User:42.book.addict#To_Do_List_for_Jeff|user page]]. One of these tasks is promoting more admins. Seeing as you are quite active, and have done quite a lot of edits (top 10 in CS score-wow!), would you like to be mentioned in my message as a possible admin candidate? [[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict|talk]]) 17:21, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
: Oh hey, thanks for messaging me! I started caring a lot for this site about a year ago, went on a complete pause for a few months, and came back this week. You seem very active, love to see some new active users! I saw your message on the community portal saying you were trying to find a way to contact Jeff. That's actually something I've thought about doing for a long time but never actually tried since not even Davidy22 was able to contact him at one point iirc.
:Anyway, yes, I'd love to be an admin for this site since there are so many things I can't do as a user (i have my own to-do list, which includes 1) actually deleting pages in Pages to delete and 2) improving/fixing the comic templates and Main page).
: So yeah, I wish you good luck contacting him! My only advice is to use any possible way to (or to get someone else to) contact him without worrying too much about annoying him. His last contribution was more than a year ago, he can totally jump back in for a moment after being unreachable for so long. I really like your message, it's very well-written, now the hard part is getting it to him. Asking Davidy22 for his email address (or finding it online) sounds like a great idea to me. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 22:12, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

== Trivia below transcript ==
The FAQ page says that trivia is below transcript. I'm very sorry about this. [[User:ConscriptGlossary|ConscriptGlossary]] ([[User talk:ConscriptGlossary|talk]]) 00:41, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
:Nono don't be sorry, you're totally right! I came back here after months of being offline and forgot about the order! I realised my mistake yesterday but didn't have the time to go look for the article to revert my edit. Please revert it if you get the chance to do it before me. [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 04:53, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
::There, I should've fixed it now. I see you also reverted my edit, thanks! [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 04:59, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

== On the Ghosts in the NavPane ==

When I saw 42's inclusion of Ghosts in the Character NavPane, I was pondering asking for Demons and Aliens (the blob-monster types, or near variations, from both UFO-ish comics and far-future) to be added alongside.

But I agree with you that they're not ''really'' minor characters. Yet I think they (all of them) deserve a slot there, as they are as much a feature as the (Animals/)Squirrels section. Originally thought to suggest "Groups" (could include "Multiple Cueballs" and even "Children" for groups with otherwise un-IDed child characters), which you could still ''also'' add (but for human-character groups only), but now thinking "Other Beings" could hold Ghosts, Demons and Aliens (maybe "Future Beings" separate from the latter, or at least the differently-futuristic "Floating Orbs" as ''another'' other classification category in there). As a section between Real People and Animals, I thought, unless it's decided best to put them after Animals.

Food for thought, anyway. You (and 42, and maybe others) may have your own ideas on this, and I wouldn't (and can't) spring my own ideas upon you by suddenly just editing the appropriate source. It probably needs discussion. I nearly put my earlier thoughts in the Community Portal area, but as you're personally active on this at the moment I thought it might be easier for you to ponder if I finally commited it to writing just here. (Feel free to move this contrib/advertise it wider, if you see fit.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.62|172.70.91.62]] 14:19, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
:Just popping in to add my 2 cents-I wholeheartedly agree with the idea of having “other beings” in the navbox. '''[[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]][[User talk:42.book.addict|Talk to me!]]''' 16:02, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
::Hey there, thanks a lot for messaging me about this. I disagree with you for one specific reason: the navbox was initially supposed to catalogue the recurring characters in the comics which displayed more or less the same behaviours across comics, such as [[Black Hat]] and [[Beret Guy]]. It then expanded to include real people, such as politicians, which still remained the same characters across different comics. The animal section is different in that some of them are the same animals across comics (such as bobcats and red spiders, for example), but since we had to include them, we included EVERY animal, even when they were completely different every time, because it'd look weird if the only animals there were the specific ones i mentioned.
::If we included a section such as Other beings that includes ghosts, I believe it would be filled with characters that are not the same in every comic they appear in and the navbox would completely lose its intended purpose. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 18:13, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

== (Whoops, forgot a header!) ...FYC ==

If you agree with {{diff|356369|these additions/changes}}, with or without other adjustments, I was wondering if you'd like to do the respective changes to the Incomplete Article category page, as I find it's semi-protected and I'm thus locked out from the edits that I thought I might duplicate there too (in my IP state – yes, I know I could change this, but I'm happier just to leave it up to you/whoever). Anyway, for your consideration. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.202.75|162.158.202.75]] 17:09, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
: Done! Thanks. I removed a few technical details. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 07:24, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

==The [[What If? chapters|''What If?'' article index]] project==
''The messages regarding the [[What If? chapters|''What If?'' article index]] project have been moved to '''[[Talk:What If? chapters]]'''. To add a new topic regarding the index, [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:What_If?_chapters&action=edit&section=new click here].'' --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 09:15, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

== Removed "Discussion" super-header. ==

I had wondered, as (at that time) you hadn't bothered to remove any of the ''other'' equivalent super-headers. It looked a bit like an accidental select-and-cut, like sometimes editors do, given your actual edit was waaay down the other end of the page. (It was a bit too neat, not like the usual case of somehow snipping off just one of the "="s, make a =="header"== into a ="header="=, effectively, but I've also seen similarly unmessy accidents happen, so your decent tightening up of the whitespace could have just as easily been a part of the same misclicking.)

I did check the companion pages, and they were all happyily as they (once) were. Note that the extra level of header ''does'' have use for (e.g.) putting a similar level of header at the bottom to give Archive, FAQ, etc, sections (not part of the now-top-levelisted points), or even such that we can have "for <foo>, see <otherPortal#section>" to gather things up with less repeats. Not to have their own subheaders (unless they, too, get so large that we have to further split them!), but to be seperate-but-appended like a Transcript (and maybe Trivia) section, regardless of how subheadered an in-depth Explanation gets. If we ever get that (and, really, we could do with a ''lot'' of archival for most of the Community Pages, and maybe some FAQing, for which I ''might'' suggest a subheadering to easily scan for... e.g. ... the situation with the MathML that seems to get revisited more often than not), then we probably need the superheaders back, unless we put messy indented-bullet-trees (at the top? with or without "expand"-hiding?) ''only'' for non-discussion items.

Not that I totally agree that "1.<many...>" (and the occasional "1.<something>.<subsubitem>" was unreadable, either, but ''so long'' as we don't have a further main(ish) header, of equal import, then ''maybe'' it's ok to do it your way. Just it seemed like a big decision to make, to cut out all the (admitedly untaken) options out of the equation. ...And that is a summary of the mental arithmatic whizzing through my head when I had decided (on balance) that you'd probably just made an unknowing misedit that needed bringing back in line with the others. Just to explain the snap decision to undo your 'accident'. Not sure whether you'd been purposefully thinking about it for far longer, of course. Maybe even a couple of minutes! ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.58|172.71.178.58]] 14:53, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

:I totally agree with everything you said! One day I noticed there was a useless superheader at the top which was making the TOC unnecessarily slightly harder to scan through. We should definitely bring it back if someone decides to organise the portals, but I figured since it was untouched for more than a decade, it's likely it won't happen in the near future. There was no need to explain the reasoning behind your revert, but I appreciate you reaching out! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:06, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

==A simple Thank-you==
Thank you so much for expanding my knowledge of xkcd, the wiki, and wikis overall. That user page creation left a bit of a mark on me lol. I have found out that I have reached a high enough level to create user pages. I have created 2 user pages and 2 discussion pages for other worthy members of the community. Thank you for the very helpful advice, and thanks again for providing helpful information from the community. Sincerely, [[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]] ([[User talk:DollarStoreBa'al|talk]]) 05:14, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
:No worries! I'm glad we have another active contributor <3   --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:09, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
::It's relevant to note that we only create User pages when people explicitly ask for them. On the other hand, '''User talk''' pages are created if you want to talk to that specific member privately. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:14, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

== Removing references to order of LiveJournal comics ==

[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1%3A_Barrel_-_Part_1&type=revision&diff=320394&oldid=320342 But WHY?] 
I'm very unhappy to realize you have deleted my hard work giving people a possibility to click through the first comics in the order they where released on livejournal. I have not checked them all, but I'm not happy that it has been deleted and would like to get it back. Pleas try to explain why you found it a good idea to remove this info from so many comics! I'm quite upset about it at the moment. And since you removed it would like you to restore it if you cannot make me see why! Seems there is also more info I put in that have been deleted? :-( --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 19:31, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

:You are mistaken! I actually liked the idea of browsing the first comics in the original order ''so much'' that I moved it above the explanation! This means it's now much easier to browse them in the correct order, because the user is no longer required to scroll to the bottom of the page: the links are right below the comic.

:I did this for all the 50ish comics. I think you might also have missed the "Original title" and "Original caption" parts of these first comics. In every one of these comics, right under the title (above the image) there's an "Original title". Likewise, below every Title text there's now an "Original caption" part, which contains the LiveJournal caption. See for example comics [[4: Landscape (sketch)]] or [[8: Red spiders]]. I also added a link to the specific LiveJournal post both on the title and caption parts, so users can see them for themselves. Your hard work no longer sits in the hidden Trivia section, but is actually above everything else and easier to read and use!

:I do think it's still not perfect, especially part to browse the comics. I'd like to create a custom template with real buttons (not just links) and an actual explanation of the situation, or maybe integrate it directly into the {{tl|comic}} template. But still, a much better solution than putting everything in the last section! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:47, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

::I'm sorry for the harsh words. Late that night I realized all my trivia info was deleted (did see the original title text was added), but did not realize that the info was relegated to a more prominent place. So I take back my comment, and instead now thank you for improving my work. Hope you accept this apology from a message written at a bad time. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:58, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

:::Of course! You were very polite. I'm glad you're still active in this wiki :) --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:16, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
::::Me to, so there at least is one active admin. Sadly I'm not very good at the tech stuff a<nd also do not have time to look into all kinds of wiki policies... Glad there are others like you who lift the mantle on those parts. We really need a guy like Davidy... --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:12, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

:::::UPDATE: I moved the sentences above the ==Explanation==, so it should now be clearer. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 18:01, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

== Jill's renaming ==

Hi FaviFake 
Just came around to think about the renaming og Science Girl, that I created, to Jill. I really do not like it, and we do not generally give generic figures a name, Megan and Danish the exceptions. And because she is in a comic based on a children song, the name is clearly from the song not because the generic Science Girl is called Jill. Jill is not even used in the comic, only in the title text. You wrote there where no less than three discussions regarding this name change, agreeing with you. But they are not on the talk page of Science Girls page. I'm seriously considering changing it back, so let me know where these discussions are located. I also think it was a mistake to call Danish, Danish, but it beats calling her Black Hats girlfriend. It was just a nickname he used, and they killed the witness as no one must know... But that was done way before I began editing this page. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 16:21, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

:Hey, thanks for your message! I'll respond tomorrow because I don't have time, but for now I just wanted to note somewhere (before I forget) that I looked though all 41 appearances and counted the times where science is the main theme of the comic. The result was that the majority of Jill appearences are not related to science. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 20:07, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

::Well I will have to check that but the first instance was included because it was a girl who where interested in science even though she doesn't look like ScienceGirl. And an adult version of her was included because it was science again. The question is of course if there are now a different girl... But I do not like the naming of her. We did refrain from naming Cueball Rob, and there was also someone who did not like Megan. But that I like now. I prefer keeping Danish, but do not like the reason why she got than name. And other generic characters have been given a name in some comics without we used this. And really feel it is wrong to name her after a children song just because she was in a comic about that song! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:26, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

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Hey.
And an adult version of her was included because it was science again.
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to, but this would actually help my case! "Girl" implies she's either a teenager or a child. This means that, if you wanted to broaden her definition to also include "adult versions", you'd have to use another name. Science Woman? Science Female Charachter? I think Jill is better: it sounds like a name a child would have, but doesn't prevent us from giving the name Jill to adult versions. If we change our minds and Jill also becomes a woman, we don't have to remove the "girl" part.

We do not generally give '''generic figures''' a name
But I don't think she's a generic figure. In a bit more than a third of the comic appearences, she's specifically interested in science. This, to me, means she's likely the same person on most of the comics. SHe also has a similar behaviour.

Even if that weren't the case, we would still have to find a name for her that's generic enough, that represents her qualities, AND that's not a proper name. Or, we could just call her what Randall called her, "[[Jill]]". There is precendent on this wiki for giving a name to a character based solely on one instance, where the name wasn't even intended: that's [[Danish]]. Even more: Danish was used by Randall as an adjective, but here Randall gave us a proper name!

There where no less than three discussions regarding this name change, agreeing with you.
I didn't say they agreed with me. There was no consensus on all of them, iirc, mainly because few people partecipated. Yes, I remember they weren't on her talk page, which is weird, but they were somewhere else. I remember they were mostly even.

The first instance was included [...] even though she doesn't look like Science Girl
That specific comic is an exception, in all other comics she has a bun with trailing hair. Randall may have drawn a ponytail because of the limited space. Anyways, as I said, the majority of the comics featuring her aren't mainly about science. (Of course, almost all Randall comics relate to science, but I counted comics where it was intented.)

We did refrain from naming Cueball Rob
That's because there was consensus on the fact that Cueball is an everyman, while Rob is the same charachter.

And really feel it is wrong to name her after a children song just because she was in a comic about that song!
Well that's the only mention of her name we have, even if it's unrelated. I like that she was named after a nursery rhyme, it fits her character, since she's a child.

[...] I really do not like it, [...]

[...] I do not like the naming of her. [...]

[...] There was also someone who did not like Megan. But I like [Megan] now. [...]

[...] I really '''feel''' it is wrong to name her after a children song [...]
I'm starting to see a trend here. Do you think it could be possible you're against the name change because you simply... don’t like how it sounds? I didn't like how "Science Girl" sounded, but that's not why I changed her name...

--[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:34, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
:Thanks for the reply. Sadly you could not show me any discussion about the name change. Only that you said there where. So that did not help. Yes maybe I used the same wording many time. Also not native English speaker so may have less options to express my meaning... What I do not like about Jill and using that comic to name her, is that I do not think that comic at all is representative of the character I had identified and named Science Girl. But I do agree that if there are several instances where she is represented as an adult it could be a problem. I only new her as adult in [[1520: Degree-Off]] and I can see this has been changes, although I believe this should be reverted as this is not hairbun bu Science Girl. I did not know it had been removed. In this [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1520:_Degree-Off&oldid=123879 version] she was named Science Girl] but it was removed without my knowing. And that she was an adult version was in this [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jill&oldid=123921 version]. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 16:35, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
::Looking at comics now, and just found this one, without looking for Jill and saw her here: [[2747: Presents for Biologists]]. To me the important thing is the interest in science and that the hairbun is not tight but with strings of hair hanging loose. So maybe the explanation to Jill should be changed to a young woman, often a child with a loose hairbun, not to be3 confused with the generic every woman Hairbun... Then Degree-Off is also clearly Jill. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 17:56, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
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Also not native English speaker so may have less options to express my meaning
I'm also not a native speaker, I'm Italian! :D I wasn't pointing out your choice of words but rather what you were trying to say, which is (I think?) that you don't like the name. Anyways:

To me the important thing is the interest in science [...] So maybe the explanation to Jill should be changed to a young woman [...]
It seems your opinion has changed completely then! This is what [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jill&oldid=123921 you wrote] about [[Hairbun]] before I joined this wiki:
''Since she [Hairbun] is a '''grown woman''', she should not be confused with Science Girl or any other '''small girls''' with hair bun like in [[1584: Moments of Inspiration]].''
According to this logic in this comic:
* [[1520: Degree-Off]] - taller than other woman and man, so a woman → '''not Jill'''
* [[2747: Presents for Biologists]] - as tall as other woman and man, so a woman → '''not Jill'''

Also, this would mean we'd have to rename Jill to someone else in a third or a fourth of her appearences.

But I do agree that if there are several instances where she is represented as an adult it could be a problem
I agree! If there's one thing that I think everyone can agreen on is that we shoudn't call a grown woman a "girl". And "Science Woman" sounds like a superhero.

So, to avoid naming Hairbun '''based on how she looks''' and Jill '''based on her displayed interest''' (I'll remind you, you said in Hairbun's page that this is Hairbun:)
[[File:Hair Bun Girl with curly hair and ponytail.png]]

...all i did was standardise the matter:
*'''Jill is a child OR girl that always has trailing hair''' (except 1 comic), and
*'''Hairbun is an adult that sometimes has trailing hair.'''

I think any other definition would be incredibly confusing. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:03, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
:Well I originally put in degree off as Science Girl as she both looked and behaved like Science Girl. So I may have changed my mind. Cannot find the picture you said that I said was Hairbun? Maybe it was from before I introduced Science Girl. I have created both of these characters and then others have changed the explanation and the name. I also called her [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hairbun&oldid=88388 Hair Bun Girl], which I can now see it wrong since she was a woman, but again, not native English. Here is my first creation of [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jill&oldid=123862 Science Girl]. There where more than a year between, so maybe I changed my mind regarding which could be hairbun in between? I'm certainly more interested in having those characters with hairbun and dangling hair to be another than normal hairbun now. And would today have collected those that looks like that together. Also there are many instances of Jill where she do not have a speaking part, thus saying she is always interested in science doesn't fit with how she is listed now... It is difficult. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:57, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

::Oh yeah that makes sense, I didn't consider the fact that Science Jirl was created possibly years after Hairbun. I'm not sure I understood your last sentence, about Jill not speaking? --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 14:26, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
:::I think only a year after. But still. I meant that there are several instances with Jill where she do not have a speaking part in the comic, and thus cannot be said to have a special interest in science or her sharp wit. So if science should be her main indicator then she has to say something. But I do not really know how to make this as best as it could be. (Science Jirl, Jirl a combination of Jill and Girl ;-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:46, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

::::It'd be so funny if we settled on Science Jirl haha. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:10, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

== As I can't edit it... ==

Regarding the Editor FAQ:
For headlines, you have to use wiki-style code. The simplest way is a preceding semicolon at the beginning of the line which causes the entire line to be rendered in bold.
...I might be tempted to say something like "This makes use of {{w|Help:Wikitext#Description_lists|Description List}} markup", given how there are circumstances when a ";something:fuller description of something" is also actually useful. And then go on to say something about how this is functionally simpler than the actual (sub-)header use of =s, ==s, ===s, etc, (which you'd be advised to check what 'level' of (sub-)header you're already working in and go for the next level on from that) and would the usually be recorded in a Table Of Contents of either the page concerned or any page which it is transcluded within.

Except that we're going into really ''technical'' territory with the latter bit. Generally, ==s are for Explanation, Transcript, Trivia headers in comics, you could say. (The reason being is that the Main Page has a single-= header under which the Latest Comic is transcluded and so ==s are best to be inherited as transient sub-headers - but you don't need to say that... it's just an obvious reasong behind the stylistic decision.) Headering a section other than these, in a comic (such as a place for a Table Of Things, or similar) would generally be ===ed (or, rarely, ====ed, as a sub-sub-header of the Explanation/whatever). It is best to avoid any ===+ing at all in the Comic Talk page because, if the Comic page itself gets a TOC (some do, most don't, but all ''potentially'' could) then the transcluded Discussion gets (probably!) inadvertently and improperly added in. (You can force a NOTOC, and some other tricks, but I've never been able to find a NOTOCIFTRANSCLUDED-like thing, not without peppering noinclude sections around section headers, which is... getting ''far'' too complicated.) So, just saying "Don't use '==...'s in Talk Pages, stick to ';'s..." (even without the reasoning) might be an advisable statement.

Yeah, I'm giving you a lot of stuff here (I think you know all of it, actually), hopefully you can tease out some of the bits actually useful to suggest in the FAQ. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.164|172.68.205.164]] 21:52, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Darnit, also meant to add that in the {{template|Citation needed}} explanation you wrote, could you change {{template|actual citation needed}} to {{template|Actual citation needed}}? The latter is the actual template, the former is just a redirect. No harm in ''using'' the redirect-needing ones (generally), but you might as well advertise the correct ones. Like you don't advertise {{template|cn}} or <nowiki>{{template|fact}}</nowiki> (both ->{{template|Citation needed}}, as are {{template|citation needed}}, {{template|Citation Needed}} and other case-accomadating variations), though people still are able to use them. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.164|172.68.205.164]] 21:58, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

:Sorry but you're gonna have to give me exactly what you want me to paste in the article, I haven't understood a word of what you said. I changed the actual cit needed thinghy--[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 09:45, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

==User page creation==
I just wanted to say thanks again for making my user page! --[[User:Xnerkcd|xnerkcd]] ([[User talk:Xnerkcd|talk]]) 17:38, 13 April 2025 (UTC)
:No worries! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 18:22, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

==Admin==
What does an admin do? Are they just the people that can create pages?
:Not an admin, but they basically manage the wiki state-of-affairs and oversee day-to-day operation. Basically, a stepup from typical moderators. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.208.206|172.69.208.206]]
::I guess that's what they're ''supposed'' to do. Because of the status quo, they just sometimes pop back in and do stuff we can't. We can however create pages ourselves. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:46, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

== A Barnstar For You :3 ==

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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for all of your work on improving the templates on here! '''[[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]][[User talk:42.book.addict|Talk to me!]]''' 20:01, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
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:Thanks so much! But [[User:Firestar233]] definitely deserves that award more than I do! He created the templates for the what if? index that are still incredibly useful! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 20:31, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

==''Restructuring [[Header text]] as a table''==
''The messages regarding the [[Talk:Header text|''Header text'' reformatting]] project have been moved to '''[[Talk:Header text]]'''. To add a new topic regarding the projects, [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Header_text&action=edit&section=new click here].'' --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 09:15, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

== So, the HiddenCat..? ==

You do seem pleased that it works, but I can't work out what you've done by it (presuming it has effects upon a different page). And slightly worried by the additional redlinked category that the page now has. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.229.161|172.68.229.161]] 19:31, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

:Sure. See {{mw|Help:Categories#Hidden_categories}}. I only applied it for the new All pages and the old All comics cats. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:13, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

:Solved the redlink (non-)issue by un-redlinking it (aka creating the cat). --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:55, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

::Still less than wise as to what ''problem'' it solves, but I'm just happy that you're happy. ;)
::Also "The categories that a page is in are normally listed at the bottom of the page." I'd have written as "The categories that a page are in are normally listed at the bottom of the page.", to match "categories=>are" ''or'' "Each category that a page is in is normally listed at the bottom of the page." to force "category=>is" agreement- but maybe that's a UK-English v.s. US-English thing. (Or just my particular regional sub-dialect of English (quite near me there's a place where "we was" and "I was" are considered 'correct' and another where "we were" and "I were" are, so there's easily room for such confusion, even though I'm a "we were" and "I was" person myself). Or just me be entirely mistaken about something!) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.187|172.68.205.187]] 20:52, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

:::> ''Still less than wise as to what ''problem'' it solves
:::Solves the problem of displaying a category that should not be seen by users.

:::Also, your suggestion seems grammatically incorrect. The "is" you'd like to change to an "are" is referring to "a page", not "categories". You may want to read the sentence again. afaik, "a page is here" is correct and "a page are here" is incorrect. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 14:18, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

== Exclusive xkcd textbook comics ==

Hey uhhh does anyone know about [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/randall-munroe-xkcd-science-textbook.html this]? Should we make explanations for these?
--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al |DollarStoreBa'al]][[User talk:DollarStoreBa'al |'''''Converse''''']][[DSBContribs |'''''My life choices''''']] 20:48, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Google's Ai says there are multiple exclusive comics for the textbook, but I've only been able to find Inside Body, shown here:

[[File:Inside Body.jpg|300px]]

 {{unsigned|DollarStoreBa'al|23:07, 8 May 2025‎}}
:Hey, I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific about what "this" and "these" are. You might be looking for this page: [[New York Times: Good Question]]. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:06, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
::'This' links to a NYT article about randall munroe doing illustrations for a science textbook. Google's AI overview says there are three exclusive comic for this. I've only been able to find one. I'm asking if we should add explanations for these new comics. I have given it the temporary name 'Inside Body', since when I saved the image from the NYT article, the name 'Inside Body comic' was used.--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al |DollarStoreBa'al]][[User talk:DollarStoreBa'al |'''''Converse''''']][[DSBContribs |'''''My life choices''''']] 16:59, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
:::upon further investigation, the article is on the page you linked to. My question is still whether we add an explanation for Inside Body. Also, do we add explanations for the other comics shown in the science textbook pages? --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al |DollarStoreBa'al]][[User talk:DollarStoreBa'al |'''''Converse''''']][[DSBContribs |'''''My life choices''''']] 17:02, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

::::A large language model is one of the most unreliable sources of information. Unless you find any other site or person mentioning that there are exclusive xkcd comics on some textbooks, I don't think we should in any way create pages based on what a large language model generated. Can you find any actual sources?

::::We might still explain that one specific comic, but this is not the right place to discuss this, we should use the community portals. Besides, there are many other comics in [[New York Times: Good Question]] that aren't explained. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 17:06, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

== It's a date. ==

I'm confused by {{diff|377635|the ISO Dates edit}}. First of all, as explained in my full revert's summary, lowercase are (mostly) reserved for time-placeholders and uppercase used for date-placeholder. And I checked a number of separate documentations and implementations where datetime format variations are described/configured, without finding even one that consistently reserved only "MM", etc, for month, for disambiguation with time's equivalent "mm"-for-minutes, but lowercased everything else.

Secondly, the apparent reason for this edit did not mention this. (Perhaps an overzealous editor auto-correct? Except it/you 'missed a few' and came back to 'fix' them.) The reason actually suggests a sentence's meaning was previously reversed when it clearly was not.

I reverted to before both your edits and those which had prompted your mass-'correction'. Technically, this leaves the "US format in binary" incorrect, which was the only case-change that the prior editor had actually rationalised before you. An argument ''could'' be made that "mm/dd/yyyy" could be parsable as being "MM/DD/YYYY, but in binary", like kb/kilobits is to kB/kilobytes... though that's not even how it's phrased and I'm sure that this should indeed be uppercased like it had been. I also think the other change, to the sentence, is more elegant (for the exact same meaning), but am allowing for a slight possibility that I'm wrong about that. As such, I'm letting you consider where we go from here. Revert my change (the latest, as I type) to re-'fix' things back into lowercase, if you have enough reason to, or reassess the things you blitzed and restore the "binary date" and/or rephrased "drop leading zeros" edits.

Any further discussion, on either original issue, I will leave between you and the other editor, though I thought I'd give you a direct nod about my full reasons why I nuked ''both'' changes, as you had apparently put far more effort into your contributions (for right or wrong). And I'm not currently unconvinced by ''their'' edits, but maybe you can take the opportunity to explain things better and switch my opinions over to your POV. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.229.44|172.68.229.44]] 04:05, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

:Sure! I just made the table on that page sortable again. Microsoft has always used yyyy, dd, and MM in their settings, so I assumed that was the standard. Thanks!--[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 14:55, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

== From Kynde's page ==

::::: And finally: the typos in the message you replied to were caused by my keyboard autocorrecting my words (my pc is broken). When you reply, do it on my talk page so we don't spam Kynde's. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 12:44, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
{{outdent|:::::}}
:Hello, I think you mistook another IP's recent comment as being from me-IP, from things said prior to the above. There are a few of us around, and I don't mind being mixed up with some of them (or vice-versa) that are similarly longterm maintainers of seemingly good intentions. Though I think that IP also used "propogate" instead of "propagate" (like I know I've got my own blindspots in spelling/grammar, and occasional tendency to lapse into dialect), which also amused me.
:As to your autocorrection-errors, it surprised me... In my experience, non-native but fluent of English don't let mistakes like that happen, and you're certainly up there with native speakers (il mio italiano è per lo più limitato a ciò che può fare un traduttore online... così!). I think it just looked... careless. Also, strangely induced errors.
:Don't let me discourage you, you've gone to a lot of trouble. Some things maybe necessary, some things maybe more just 'your own vision' that I could take or leave. Just that the "diff" page doesn't always align things to make it easy to compare old vs. new versions for anything more complicated than paragraphs/bullets/tabling to bullets/tabling/paragraphs or tabling/paragraphs/tables (as required). Complete rewrites don't help, even assuming that they accurate rewrites.
:...so, this is my response. From your invitation. Of course I can't speak for anyone else involved. [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228|92.23.2.228]] 18:17, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

::Oh well, until you decide to create a proper account I will blindly assume every IP that uses parentheses and subclauses is the same exact person! You are everyone.

:: Grazie per il complimento; il mio inglese would be better if I cared about looking over every message I post. I usually only extensively proofread article changes. You're right, that specific mistake wasn't an auto correction, I just didn't want to explain everything, but I have time to kill so I guess I'll just do it. On mobile, i prefer using Gboard's glide typing feature, which can sometimes mistake two words even if their letters are almost completely different. You can look it up, it looks cool, though I doubt it'd be ergonomic to use on your tablet. That's why help became hello.

:: Amusingly, there's a grammar error in your reply that I'll let you find! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 22:17, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

== Rather than re-de-revert. ==

{{quote|The text "Don't remove this notice too soon" is there when there isn't a specific reason the page is incomplete. Now there is a clear moment when the page can be marked as complete. Not sure why you put back the PAGE CREATED BY thingy|{{diff|381894|Your re-revert}}}}

It's not just "Don't remove the 'Don't remove this text too soon' text too soon"... It's contectually applying to the ''whole'' incompleteness tag. Now, I'm not saying that, without it, people will think it ok to remove the whole thing, but there's no reason to remove it until you're removing the whole thing as solved. What even is the benefit of doing so?

But, honestly, I restored it not for meta-ontological purposes, but because I was actually trying to counter the strange removal of the PAGE CREATED BY bit. I appreciate that you may think that it confuses new readers, and I daresay that it does (a little bit), but it probably confuses them more when some new comics have this time-honoured bit of site culture and some do not. Whereas they shouldn't really take too long to realise that:
* "CREATED BY A BOT" is basically what it says on the tin, before any human has had a chance to ponder the newly added page,
* "CREATED BY <A JOKE>" is a new article once the rabble have gotten to it,
** ...though, IMO, you should only normally change it as "first editor" (or "first editor with a good idea ror a joke to put there") with something to contribute into the Explanation and/or Transcript (or will do momentarily), not ''just as a "FIRST!"-type thing then leave it...
** ...and you should think twice before changing someone else's joke to your own; perhaps refine it (oapply mild corrections to grammar/spelling/whatever it's trying to reference), but if you just totally "no, MY IDEA!" it, what's to stop the next person going "no, no, ''MY'' IDEA!!"? Just accept what's there (or tweak it, honourably), you'll perhaps be able to get (and keep for a reasonable time) the subtle 'bragging rights' to a future comic, if everyone plays nice and doesn't just entirely change it on a whim. Or remove it for no good reason, before the whole tag is considered superfluous anyway...
* If someone (like yourself) adds in an incomplete tag ''back'' into a previously 'presumed complete' page, that can happily stay without the BOT-inspired humour. Unless one feels like it, but actually adding the tag back in to pages, which (by wiki convention) are always open to being re-edited if you so wish,
** ...if I may say, adding an "incomplete|X and Y need doing to this page", instead of just doing X and Y to the page, is a waste of edits. I appreciate there are some things you might not be able to actually do (explain something that currently confuses you, for example), but occasionally it's a request to trivially reformat something, and no obvious reason why you haven't just done the reformatting in this edit. If you haven't time to do it all now, it doesn't need a placeholder to make a note to yourself to come back and do it when you can..
** ...and, unless you've changed it since I last looked, there's at least one "X needs doing" that seems to have been done but the "X needs doing" tag is still there. Haven't been able to work out if ''not all'' X has been done (for some reason), or whoever did complete it left this tag (whether or not they've deleted othersz along the way). When I have time to to through it line-by-line (more work than to quickly write something like this, which is to explain things that are clearly not as self-evident as I had thought), maybe I'll be the one to remove the notice to that effect..

I have no doubt that some of my thinkings around these matters (and various site traditions/conventions, which may predate me and do definitely prefate you) are perhaps a little strange. Similarly, I find some of your thinking strange. Or at least what I imagine is your thinkings, based upon your occasional doings. As it is practically impossible to cover all the various aspects of thought (or ideas about your aspects of thought) in an Edit Summary, especially one with "Reverting edit by..." filler already in it, this is to make up for the rather limited and compressed 'explanation' you perhaps had to make do with previously.

And it's only my opinion, albeit based upon site consensus (messy and ever-changing as that is) that I've absorbed from my time here. Perhaps you wish to shift consensus, but I'd of course like you to at least know that ''this is what you're doing''. If you don't know this, your well-meaning attempts to restandardise the groupçsnhive mind may just be more confusing than productive. Perhaps you may want to say "I don't think we should <foo> any more", rather than just de-<foo> everything without warning people that you might be treading on their metaphorical toes. Not that I can stop you, but every now and then I might be seeming to tread on your own toes (with no malicious intent), just because we're dancing to completely different beats. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.246.216|82.132.246.216]] 17:10, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

:Hi!

There's no reason to remove it until you're removing the whole thing as solved. What even is the benefit of doing so?

:That message is part of the default text for new comics. If someone has changed the incomplete tag, it's harder to notice that a specific reason has been created if the old text is still there. For these reasons, I believe editors are more likely to overlook what's written in the notice, thinking it only contains the default text.

[H]onestly, I restored it not for meta-ontological purposes

:What's a meta-ontological purpose?

the strange removal of the PAGE CREATED BY bit. I appreciate that you may think that it confuses new readers, and I daresay that it does (a little bit), but it probably confuses them more when some new comics have this time-honoured bit of site culture and some do not.

:Two things:
:1. The main reason I remove it is to avoid the above: editors thinking nobody pointed out specific page issues. And not just newer editors, even I sometimes miss an incomplete reason because I SEE THE ALL CAPS TEXT AND THINK NOBODY CHANGED IT. (im not screaming)

:2. Recently, I don't remove the joke from the LATESTCOMIC, unless it's really hard to see the actual incomplete reason.

"CREATED BY A BOT" is basically what it says on the tin, before any human has had a chance to ponder the newly added page,

:That hasn't been the case for months now. Look at the OG versions of the pages. Editors are adding it wholesale.

...though, IMO, you should only normally change it as "first editor" (or "first editor with a good idea ror a joke to put there") with something to contribute into the Explanation and/or Transcript (or will do momentarily), not just as a "FIRST!"-type thing then leave it...
...and you should think twice before changing someone else's joke to your own; perhaps refine it (oapply mild corrections to grammar/spelling/whatever it's trying to reference), but if you just totally "no, MY IDEA!" it, what's to stop the next person going "no, no, MY IDEA!!"? Just accept what's there (or tweak it, honourably), you'll perhaps be able to get (and keep for a reasonable time) the subtle 'bragging rights' to a future comic, if everyone plays nice and doesn't just entirely change it on a whim. Or remove it for no good reason, before the whole tag is considered superfluous anyway...

:I haven't considered this type of edit warring before, and I'm happy to stay away from it. I'm not sure whether the "you" was referring to me specifically, because I only edited the CREATED BY once or twice (i mostly remove it when it's old or hides the real reason a page is incomplete).

adding an "incomplete|X and Y need doing to this page", instead of just doing X and Y to the page, is a waste of edits

:I've been trying to do that less recently

If you haven't time to do it all now, it doesn't need a placeholder to make a note to yourself to come back and do it when you can..

:I thought this use was accepted. I do it because if someone else gets there before me, they can do it themselves. Could you suggest other ways for saving these small-but-needed edits?

unless you've changed it since I last looked, there's at least one "X needs doing" that seems to have been done but the "X needs doing" tag is still there.

:I think I've always removed an incomplete tag I created myself for all comics that aren't the ~20 most recent if, after chacking the page, I notice the editor has forgotten (and I always check the edits within a few days unless im on vacation). Please feel free to remove all my or others' incomplete tags if you notice it's complete. I don't understand why you're saying you noticed one and seemingly didn't remove it? If the editor that fixes the page forgets, it's up to whoever notices first to remove it.

Similarly, I find some of your thinking strange. Or at least what I imagine is your thinkings, based upon your occasional doings.

:Yeah I don't think I've ever explained my removals of the CREATED BY things. To summarise:
:Reason number 1) editors thinking nobody pointed out specific page issues because they think it's still the default notice.
:Reason number 2) the comic is old
:Reason number 3) confuses new users, but in the last year or so I haven't worried about this because I removed the incomplete notices from the [[Main Page]]. Hopefully the newbies will look at the mainpage first.

Perhaps you may want to say "I don't think we should <foo> any more", rather than just de-<foo> everything without warning people that you might be treading on their metaphorical toes.

:It's not that I want the tradition to stop, it's just that it gets in the way of productiveness. A notice is the most powerful thing we have to spread a message, and yet we use it as a joke which sometimes hides what's actually wrong with the page. I wish there were a way to keep the CREATED BY's and still allow for important notices to be highly visible. Currently, if I have to choose one, I choose the latter. Do you have any ideas about this? New templates, edits to the bot script, new fields for the existing template, a different notice type, etc?

:Also, any thoughts on the topic above. Your suggestions are often a good start but then you stop replying :( ㅤ [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 13:21, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

::Ok, my prior reply seems to have been not posted, for reasons I can only guess (dodgy connection, looked like it happened but I moved on too quick, or didn't notice I'd landed on Edit Conflict, something like that?). But I've also been way too busy to actively ponder if you've not bothered to respond to me, in turn.
::Not going to recompose everything, at length, but Incomplete templates ''easily'' contain the original BOT text/user-version, as long as users don't go over-creative over it. Genuine reasons added to this are still visible. The BOT-original "don't delete this too soon" doesn't become any more superfluous than the now ubiquitous "editing it" link. For as long as the notice is 'new' on a new article, there's no reason at all to squeeze anything out in most circumstances. Don't underestimate the readership.
::If you're adding a box back in for an old article that has passed such 'newness' (or where there never was one), keep it as businesslike as you wish, of course.
::If you have a long, complicated list of things, it's probably a long, complicated article where you can site an Incomplete notice by the side of each troublesome item (as you have done).
::Not going any further, like pointing you back at innumerable 'classic' examples of it all just working (whether new users or old users took the necessary hints), as that was a lot of wasted work from last time I 'replied'. But it's all there in the back-pagesz if you care to look. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.245.128|82.132.245.128]] 16:45, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

:::Short and sweet reply, I like it! You should have a dodgy connection more often :D I seem to care about the notice much less than you do, so, sure; I'll keep it on relatively new articles and do whatever if it's older and doesn't still have the original. I still wish there were an easier solution, but it's just a notice. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:53, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

== Questions ==

Dear FaviFake

I posted a new question on the Randall question thing. I have no clue how to use the Wiki, but I still did my best to post a question. If I did it wrong please forgive me and I'll do my best next time.

PS. The question I posted is all the way down, at least as I am writing now.

[[User:Little Timmy|Little Timmy]] ([[User talk:Little Timmy|talk]]) 01:30, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Little Timmy[[User:Little Timmy|Little Timmy]] ([[User talk:Little Timmy|talk]]) 01:30, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

:No worries, that was good. You can learn more about editing this wiki on [[explain xkcd:Editor FAQ]]. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 08:50, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

==''Restoring the mini [[Comic series]]''==
''The messages regarding the [[Talk:Comic series|definition of a proper "comic series"]] have been moved to '''[[Talk:Comic series]]'''. To add a new topic regarding the comic series, [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Comic_series&action=edit&section=new click here].'' --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 14:46, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
== Leaderboard ==

Wow, you probably know already but I’m just re-reminding you that you fell out of 1st place. Keep up the good contributions! {{Special:ContributionScores/10/7/nosort,notools}} [[User:Aprilfoolsupdate!| Aprilfoolsupdate!]]([[User talk:Aprilfoolsupdate!|talk]]) 09:57, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

:Oh well, I surely care more about [[Special:ContributionScores#All time (Top 50)|this other list]]. Thanks! --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 13:09, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

::I never knew this list existed! I wonder what’s behind it? The “well known” one is <nowiki> {{Special:ContributionScores/50/7/nosort,notools}} </nowiki> I guess, but what’s the one for this list?[[User:Aprilfoolsupdate!| Aprilfoolsupdate!]]([[User talk:Aprilfoolsupdate!|talk]]) 13:11, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

:::Who knows! Maybe Mediawiki has the answer. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 13:20, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

== Small Talk (Or Something Like That) ==

Hey, how's things going? Everything alright? Any wiki-wide events I missed? Really miss how things were before. -Tori '''[[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]][[User talk:42.book.addict|Talk to me!]]''' 15:51, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

:Hi welcome back!!! The only interesting thing imo opinion is that Randall replied to me again, I'm not sure if you saw that, see my userpage. :) --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:39, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

::Oh and the [[Comic series]] page was divided into main series and miniseries and is now just a list of transclusions so we don't have to keep 2 pages up to date. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:41, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

== "I'll omit this part because I'm not sure it should be published." ==
why? [[user:lett‪herebedarklight|raeb]] 09:28, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
:What? could you elaborate? --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:37, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
::randall's reply. the answer that starts "Most of those were inside jokes sent to friends [...]" [[user:lett‪herebedarklight|raeb]] 11:44, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
:::Oh right. Some have said it's a bit personal. Now that the sitewide banner's off I'll reinstate it. Thx. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:40, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
:::{{Done}} --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:42, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

== A rational rationale? ==

You know, some people complain about explanations being too long. Copying {{diff|384566|a swathe of wikipedia}} about twice as large as the original explanation text seems about as odd as initially deciding to removing that text (which linked to the page in question, for the curious) ''possibly'' because you personally didn't know about it. It's ok, not everyone does know, even native speakers, but also maybe the treatment originally given to that part could be reworded to slightly more compact. (I liked the flippant bit. But I wouldn't have said it quite like that, myself.) Yet there's some confusion over your underkill-then-overkill approach. And if I was going to rewrite it, it'd be more considered than either excising or copypasting. Could have just been left alone, though. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.237.85|82.132.237.85]] 17:27, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
:It said singular they was considered incorrect, iirc, which is not really the case nowadays. I did a bit of ce before pasting it; my logic was: either add it back correctly, or remove the wrong part. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:28, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

==Tori and I have an idea==
Please check the proposals board for an idea to subvert the 255 character signature limit. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al|'''''converse''''']] 17:40, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

==[[:Template:comic discussion 1167]]==
Hi FaviFake. I was looking through the unused templates page to try to do some cleanup on here when I noticed a [[:Template:comic discussion 1167|template]] from back in 2013. You had originally tagged it as a page to delete, but then added a lot more to the template. Since it is still unused and I cannot surmise any purpose for it, I have re-tagged it. Would you mind explaining your thought process? Thanks, '''[[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]][[User talk:42.book.addict|Talk to me!]]''' 16:36, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
:I don't remember why I used it, probably as a sandbox. It's unnecessary, thanks for flagging it.--[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:58, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

==Contact Info Google Site==
Hi FaviFake, what is the URL for your Google Site of contact info? I remember that you had posted it on here, but I cannot find it. I was experiencing Cloudflare errors in the past 24 hours and was unable to contact anyone on Explain XKCD. I would greatly enjoy it if we had some other form of communication outside of here. Thanks. '''[[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]][[User talk:42.book.addict|Talk to me!]]''' 20:17, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
:Oh, thank god it's back. I noticed the outage and it seems someone had posted about it on reddit.
:The website is https://sites.google.com/view/FaviFake, you can bookmark it if you want. I noticed you're also on Reddit (and Wikipedia iirc), so I might contact you there if there's a more serious outage. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 10:58, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

== [[Hoverboard]] ==

I glad that someone has looked at my changes to this game description.

I am sorry, however, that you disagree with my two main points.

Can we discuss?

I see no point in getting into a "reversion war" over comments to a comic.

[[User:Sprucegrouse|Sprucegrouse]] ([[User talk:Sprucegrouse|talk]]) 13:52, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
:Of course. I simply think your version is too odd:
The best way to enjoy this comic is just to play the game! (Just be sure that you play using a web browser other than Safari.) If you have not yet tried (hard) to play it "cold" already, do so now. Reading beyond this Alert first will deprive you of the best this game has to offer.
Mine:
The best way to enjoy this comic is just to play the game! If you didn't do that already, reading anything below will spoil you from truly enjoying the comic.

I don’t see the need of specifying browsers, and the complex language you used, in a ''spoiler alert''. [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 16:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

== Comic list numbers. ==

Had a look at all today's edits to the Comics-bar template, carefully, after making it fully correct. Though the other person apparently didn't spot it, and I didn't have enough space in the Explanation to say it in longhand, I think I need to appeal to you directly. Not ''entirely'' sure you realised what you were dealing with. Or you just have a weird idea of what's acceptibly correct.

If I'm actually wanting to look at the list that contains (say) comic 1500, I wouldn't find it by following the text "1500-<whatever>" that links to a 1501-2000 page. I would if I was followed the "<whatever>-1500" one, before that, that links to the explicitly 1001-1500 page. But quick scanning of the text might miss the obvious overlap and initially get you to explore only the latter. When you do, you get to the page that starts "2000, 1999, 1998, ...", then you scroll down to the bottom to find that it ''doesn't'' have the desired 1500 after all. (Before you ask, there are possible reasons that you might want to view the ''list'' item, and deliberately didn't go to the [[1500]] explanation page itself.) The explanation "unnecessary specificity" is at least misleading, and that edit made the whole top-bar misleading.

(Personally, I'd have gone with 1-499, 500-999, etc, even though the lack of a '0' makes the first one shorter. Each of them being (500n)+1 to 500(n+1), as it is, is also ok. But neither method is (500n) to 500(n+1), however you look at them.) [[Special:Contributions/81.179.195.93|81.179.195.93]] 18:44, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
:Fine, sure. If someone is looking for exactly 1500, rounding it will be annoying for them, but I thought the nicer round numbers were more important than full correctness. But I don't mind, you can change it back. There are bigger fishes to fry. --[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 21:26, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
::That's a very strange thought to have had, here in the home of mathematical nitpicking, nerd sniping, over-anaylsing and all-round adherence to the ideals of accuracy and/or precision. I'm just surprised that it spent so much time with a partial off-by-one error.
::Although I didn't actually personally notice it until one or more other people did and at least partially tried to fix it. I suppose we all have our blind spots! Though maybe this is one of those cases where some people, once they see the issue, [[2598: Graphic Designers|couldn't unsee it]]. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.195.93|81.179.195.93]] 22:28, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

==2==
`^ -_ /| /\ -\ /_ /` -\ -\ /` -` /\ %20 `^ ‘_ -`%20 -`|_ %20 |_ -` `’ -_ %20 ‘_ -’ /_ ‘_

^UP|DOWN -LEFT_RIGHT %20SPACE /DIAGDOWNLEFT \DIAGDOWNRIGHT `DIAGUPLEFT ‘DIAGUPRIGHT {{unsigned ip|204.137.100.1|21:45, 12 November 2025 (UTC)}}

:Ok, I've not worked out the exact symbolic logic, in use, but the plaintext is obvious. Then the significance of the tetragrams may be the final puzzle. (Sorry, Favi, they put this here. For whatever purpose.) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.245.223|82.132.245.223]] 22:30, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
:DOYOUNEEDHELP {{unsigned ip|204.137.100.1|22:48, 12 November 2025 (UTC)}}
::Personally, no. Not sure about you, though. ;) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.245.223|82.132.245.223]] 00:21, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
:::{{w|Beetle|HELP}}
::::Beetle? --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] 14:30, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
wut [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 14:36, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
:IAMNOTJUSTANYBODY [[Special:Contributions/204.137.100.1|204.137.100.1]] 14:43, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
::WAIT A SECOND I GET IT!!!! --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] 14:56, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
::Their hint wasn't about beetles, it was about the BEATles! 'I am not just anybody' is very deliberate wording. That wording happens to be used in the Beatles' Help! Look at the album cover for Help. It's quite memorable. Why? Because it uses FLAG SEMAPHORE. WHICH USES DIFFERENT ARM POSITIONS TO COMMUNICATE LETTERS. SPECIFICALLY, THERE ARE EIGHT DIFFERENT ARM POSITIONS. AND THERE ARE EIGHT SYMBOLS USED IN THAT CODE. AND, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE {{w|Flag semaphore|FLAG SEMAPHORE WIKIPEDIA PAGE}}, IT HAS AN ALPHABET. AND WHEN YOU TRANSLATE IT, YOU GET:

::T R A N S M I S S I O N T W O O F F O U R W Q M W.

::Wow that's intricate. Okay, we have two now. That took a while. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] 15:13, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
::::Ah, right. I was still dealing with the backformation and plotting out the digrams on graph paper as two-element vectors (and misread the 'Q' as another 'O'). But of course everybody knows that ''HELP!'' {{w|Help!#Album cover|doesn't actually depict "HELP"}} [[Special:Contributions/82.132.245.223|82.132.245.223]] 16:12, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
:::Now we have XVERWQMW in total --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] 15:25, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

== Is it you? ==
Are you {{w|User:FaviFake}}? I'm just here from enwiki. Further question: are you aware of a page like {{w|wikt:Wiktionary:Wiktionary for Wikipedians}} for this wiki that would explain the differences? I've been spending some time dealing with duplication of diffusing subcategories of [[:Category:Science]] and I'm slightly concerned that I haven't found an equivalent of {{w|WP:BOLD}} here so my actions might be somehow against how this wiki functions. Thanks for any help you might be able to give :) [[User:lp0 on fire|lp0 on fire]] [[User talk:lp0 on fire|()]] 18:14, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
:Yes, it is me! What do you mean "explain the differences"?
:Here, everyone is BOLD since we have so few active editors. Welcome! [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 11:07, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
:(Waited for FF to reply, for once, before sticking my own nose in.)
:Philosophically, explainxkcd is very much Wikipedia-like (far more so than Wiktionary is, though that's a high bar that's easy to limbo under).
:The main exceptions are probably discovered by practice, if not explained via the FAQ or other related pages. We don't like citation-style or note-style linking ([#] or [#]), prefering more the 'prosaic'/inline version, and use {{template|Actual citation needed}}s for when they're lacking because {{template|Citation needed}} is only used 'humorously' (YMMV!). The general format of Comics pages is fairly well tied down to an easily checkable (or correctable) house-style, also described elsewhere.
:Also (outside of the individual Talk/Discussion comments, which are going to just be how the attributed author ended up doing it) the default is to go with how US-English (Randall's version) is spelled, rather than how UK-/Commonwealth-English may be spelt (if you even realise/realize it applies... but someone may be along later to 'correct' it if they think it's labelled/labeled incorrectly). I ''think'' Wikipedia tends to ask for only in-article consistency (and tied to where the article's focus in the Anglosphere might primarily be). Of course, if you're in the US (or have had your {{w|English as a second or foreign language|ESOL}} education via an americanized school, rather than an anglicised one), you only really need to worry about your random tyops. :p
:My main advice(/advise? - no, I think that noun is still the same... it's things like practice/practise I need to remember to change!) is to hold off on creating new pages (especially Categories and Templates), until having checked how(/if) it fits with the others (e.g. what's the correct "Category:[[List of] Comics [with|featuring] ]FOO" form for what you want), as it saves someone having to rename it. Or mark it for deletion.
:But some of my personal preferences/expectations might well be 'YMMV'. It's (like Wikipedia) a collaborative site where the (active) community might reshape some expectations or granted latitudes over time. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.237.174|82.132.237.174]] 14:58, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks, those are both helpful responces (that was a genuine typo; the humo[u]r was initially unintentional) in their own ways. If someone couls look over just one or two of the edits where I removed [[:Category:Science]] from articles that were already in one or more subcategories and confirm my edits were helpful I'd be very grateful. I think I'll mostly stick to Wikipedia (I've finally got round to writing an article!) but I might edit here intermittently. [[User:lp0 on fire|lp0 on fire]] [[User talk:lp0 on fire|()]] 19:54, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
:::For what it's worth, as yet another random editor, I have at least looked at the first few of your 'Science removal' items. Where you're either replacing them with a 'more specialist science' or because that more specialist science was also already there. They mostly seemed like valid hierarchical changes (without delving into what cats were ''actually'' sub-cats of other cats), and certainly I don't think any that I wanted to bother change back again. Which is as good as you could hope, I'm sure. ;) [[Special:Contributions/78.144.255.82|78.144.255.82]] 20:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

== template coding? ==

Hi FaviFake! I know that you're probably pretty busy IRL, but could you take a look at [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#categories template]] and the new comments at [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Main page comic number]]? They both involve templates, which I remember you're pretty good with (Template:What if and Template:book). If you could lend your expertise into helping to implement these, or just giving your thoughts, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much! '''[[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]][[User talk:42.book.addict|Talk to me!]]''' 10:21, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

== Incomplete template - the image seems broken ==

Hi FaviFake

On most pages with the incomplete template the image of work in progress seems to be broken. But sometimes it is not. I have tried to look into it, but cannot see what is wrong. Was it you who added the image? And can you fix it?

Regards --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:27, 20 January 2026 (UTC)--

:Hi... sorry to butt in, but see (sorry, long read) [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Interwiki media-linking errors.]] for one of several prior mentions of this (several people have noticed it) at least as far back as its mention in [[Talk:3191: Superstition]].

:I think the most immediate 'solution' is for someone to actually upload the used images (both green and blue) to this site. Then it won't go wrong due to whatever dodgy 'find and link' process is happening in the cross-site process.

:I've also found that clicking on the "Refresh" button (just above an Explanation Page's break-out box for the Discussion) sometimes makes it work. Sometimes makes it stop working. Sometimes makes the one that works stop working and vice-versa, in the same step. But if we can avoid that entirely then it's probably better. [[Special:Contributions/92.23.11.33|92.23.11.33]] 14:58, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

:Yeah, I'd hoped someone with upload privileges would take note and do the simple fix. Me and the last guy can't do that for you, of course.
:And my advice is to go for a raw 40x40px .png, or even .gif if you want to have fun with transparency/animation. Might be slightly larger file than the .svg ''or'' smaller (depends upon how unnecessarily inefficient it is, at markup level, SVGs tend to have unnecessary editor-specific info, etc), but if they're both going to be 40x40 in size (or whatever it is defined as), no point asking browsers or back-end to get a 400x400 image and dynamically scale it down all the time. Even the potentiallhly constant SVG rerendering is computationally unnecesary. Just because it's a fairly seemless process on computers with many more times the power of thirty years ago, it doesn't mean you shouldn't put a little thought into it. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.241|82.132.239.241]] 15:46, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
::Sure, feel free to do it if it hasn't been done already! [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 17:39, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
:::Well, you/Kynde(/almost any other registered user likely to come by this page) needs to upload it... None of us IPs can, and it's truly a trivial thing to do.
:::If it helps, though, I've put the (40x40px) images in https://filebin.net/8s85i4hq9uch50u2 for you ('''that link lasts for about a week''').
:::Noting that they're each 4kb in size. While the SVG file from which it comes is 11kb (being text-tag markup, rather than an optimally compressed binary format), though a lot of that is SVG markup that isn't actually needed (or can be simplified), if you're into thinking about such things!
:::You could, of course, force yourself a 80x80 size PNG image from the original (probably still below 11kb - not that it matters, but I find such things interesting to consider) and force-scale this local version, in-situ, to show as 40x40 again. Might be slightly smoother/better for some people's browsers, though, even if it ends up looking virtually identical to native 40x40 in others. Also, you can easily colour-shift or otherwise mess about with the glyph (as SVG or not) to your heart's content for ''all kinds'' of new versions you could decide you need, even if wikicommons don't have something like that for you/us already.
:::Really, there's a whole lotta fun you can have with this... I actually envy you considering all the possible fine-tuning (or just skipping straight to the reupload (perhaps as "blue construction.png" and "green construction.png") and then perhaps trivially editing the templates as necessary to pick these up rather than trying to grab the 'original' amboxes. (Actually, I could probably do the latter bit, post-upload, but I'm sure you don't need me to.) [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253|81.179.199.253]] 21:13, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
::::I was too late for the filebin :(
::::I don't see the 40x40px thing anymore so maybe someone did it already?[[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 07:44, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::I think 42/Tori sorted it all out. (I could be wrong about who, but there were both 'hard' uploads and a small change to the template done by somebody. Checking the various history details would confirm who, but it certainly happened.) Doesn't stop other things like this going gaga, occasionally, but the two different 'under construction' images are certainly the ones that get used the most, i.e. across more of the most recent comic pages than anything else, so the occasional other cross-site image won't be as noticed. [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253|81.179.199.253]] 18:10, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::Yup, I did it! Sorry for not notifying earlier... '''[[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]][[User talk:42.book.addict|Talk to me!]]''' 03:06, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

{{Links}}

== The 'admin' complaint about Transcripts ==

I agree with {{diff|407393|this thing you removed}} not being an Admin Request, but I think the meaning is understandable, if it (ironically) had been written better by the OP.

Some people are just creating the (initial) Transcripts with source (without the indent) like:
Cueball is shown doing something.

"I like doing something!a"

Something happens in the next panel.

...
...when it ought to be ''more'' like:
:[In the first panel, Cueball is shown doing something.]
:Cueball: I like doing something!

:[In the second panel, something happens]
:...
...or ''something'' like that. Exact transcriptive styles vary, but I'd normally go with the global use of :-indents (in part to prevent lines running into each other, without double-linefeeding), [bracketing] purely descriptive bits, ascribing quoted text to their source (which could also be [bracketed], especially if the style of text itself needs describing) and extra entirely blank linefeeds (normally) ''only'' between 'scene changes'/subsequent action-panels. That's basically what I'd do, in creating a 'first transcript', or correcting a more format-unfriendly one in the prior style, but I know you've probably got your own (subtly different, but just as acceptible to me) variation on the theme. It ''might'' even be written down somewhere (the FAQ?), perhaps better/more accurate than I have done here... I haven't even checked how authoritative my own 'remembered' style guide is, but if ever I personally start/fix a Transcript I'm ok with any useful-looking necessary (re)fixing that others may make where I've perhaps not adhered to everybody's higher expectations.

But sometimes the exact needs of a Transcript (especially for particularly large, interactive and/or animated comics, of the kinds that Randall occasionally likes to spring on us, and which we also like to have been sprung on with!) do end up straining the 'standard' format(s) of Transript. Plus I would never, personally, begrudge an individual who went to the trouble of (at least ''semi-''accurately) typing in a whole lot of bare-bones 'text' from the comic, around which someone else can add the more proper and ultimately necessary transcriptive notes. It's all good, in the end, and all further collaboration must start off from ''some'' basis, however rushed and incomplete it might seem.

So, while I see where that particular editor was coming from. I wouldn't have written it like that myself. Nor with the same sort of exasperation/adm9nishment. (Nor would I take what I've tried, myself, to write above and suggest it be added to/supplanted on the FAQ... This is just from me to you, as it looks like I 'got' the linked-to issue a bit easier than you did. Or mistook it for what I've said, perhaps!) But, assuming I'm not wrong about the whole thing, I thought I'd give you my thoughts. For what they're worth. ;)

...maybe now is the right time (as if it wasn't before!) for me to go and see what the FAQ (or other 'how to' guide) ''does'' actually say about Transcript-writing. I know I'll have read it, if it exists, but my head's more full of how it has been ''practically'' applied, over theyears, so I might have been long labouring under a more descriptivist standard than any prescriptivist one. :p Still, HTH. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97|82.132.239.97]] 13:47, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

And, now having actually checked... the relevent [[explain_xkcd:Editor_FAQ#What_is_the_format_of_the_transcript_section.3F|FAQ section]] is a little less comprehensive than my 'summary', above, but anyone who has read it (and obeyed the instruction to check established comic pages to get more of the gist) is well on the way to being able to comply with the general requirements. Of course, those who haven't read/remembered this bit of FAQ (also unlikely to read the Community Portal thoroughly, or even ''this'' page) are probably going to continue to have the 'wrong' idea about how to write a Transcript, but there really is little that can be done (except maybe for named-accounts having individual Talk-page interventions, assuming they read even them!) except for what we normally do. - i.e. 'fix' things, as and when, and if the person we had to fix notices it then they might even pick up the better method for future times. If only by osmosis! But that's the kind of thing me and you already expect to happen, I think I'm correct in saying, for all kinds of things. Not ''just'' with Transcripts. Or, on those few occasions where we (and others) may even slightly disagree with each other, land upon a happy medium that works for all. :D [[Special:Contributions/82.132.239.97|82.132.239.97]] 14:05, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
:Sure! [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 23:03, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
::I think that the OP also refers to when we use <nowiki>'''bold text'''</nowiki> to show bold text, such as in [[3120]]. [[User:42.book.addict|tori :3]][[User talk:42.book.addict|talk to me!]] 03:28, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

== "Per the discussion at the community portal, ..." ==

Your likely right to do as you're doing, but... there ''was'' no discussion about the Blondie/Miss Lenhardt/etc thing. Are you mixing it up with the (unresolved) discussion about the Superheroes category, immediately above it?

I had no strong opinions about the grouping of Blondie/etc, merely don't feel comfortable about clearly misleading edit reasons. (Like just saying "grammar" for what was purely spelling/typo fixes, which happened again the other day, that I saw someone else do. Fair play for the correct correction, but still... Same with you mass re-edit. Probably valid, just looks a bit wrong.) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.246.233|82.132.246.233]] 15:29, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
:Oh, I was calling it a discussion in the sense that it was on a talk page. I meant it as a way of saying, "given the reasons posted at the community portal, I'm doing etc." I'll change the edit summary, thanks. [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 15:33, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

== "never reply again" ==

Is this just a gut feeling that you have, or is it because of the time that he's spent not replying to you? Just wondering about your thought process. Cheers, [[User:42.book.addict|tori :3]][[User talk:42.book.addict|talk to me!]] 17:27, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
:Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't. Randall's got lots of stuff going on, including having to constantly maintain the webcomic while handling everything else. He seems willing to humor us but it's probably incredibly low on his priority list. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al|'''''converse''''']] 18:05, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
:Yeah it's a gut feeling. If he's waited this long, I doubt he'll ever reply. [[User:FaviFake|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake|talk]]) 18:50, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

== Template ==

Sorry, I didn't know about the template-[[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 23:01, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

3253: Sunbeam

2026-06-01T16:01:15Z

This isn't a good name: ?

{{comic
| number = 3253
| date = June 1, 2026
| title = Sunbeam
| image = sunbeam_2x.png
| imagesize = 398x347px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created BY A TABLE SOON TO BE LIT BY THE SUN. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
The "superpower" is the that clouds always seem to show up in front of the sun when astrophotographers are near, thereby ruining their photos, which is why the title text classifies it as a curse (maybe)

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
:[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are in a large dark room, presumably a restauraunt, with two tables and a large window. The window is casting a large sunbeam between the two tables.]
:Cueball: Let's take the far table. The closer one will be in the sun soon.
:[Caption below the panel:]
:Astrophotography gives you exactly one extremely minor superpower.
{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>

3253: Sunbeam

2026-06-01T15:59:32Z

This isn't a good name: at least it's something

{{comic
| number = 3253
| date = June 1, 2026
| title = Sunbeam
| image = sunbeam_2x.png
| imagesize = 398x347px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created BY A TABLE SOON TO BE LIT BY THE SUN. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
The "superpower" is the that clouds always seem to show up in front of the sun when astrophotographers are near, thereby ruining their photos, which is why the title text classifies it as a curse

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
:[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are in a large dark room, presumably a restauraunt, with two tables and a large window. The window is casting a large sunbeam between the two tables.]
:Cueball: Let's take the far table. The closer one will be in the sun soon.
:[Caption below the panel:]
:Astrophotography gives you exactly one extremely minor superpower.
{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>

2288: Collector's Edition

2026-06-01T08:41:43Z

This isn't a good name: /* Hints */

{{comic
| number = 2288
| date = April 3, 2020
| title = Collector's Edition
| image = collectors_edition.png
| titletext = I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives.
}}
{{series
| series = April
| number = 12
| date = April 3, 2020
| days_late = 2
| day_category = Friday
| prev_title = 1975: Right Click
| prev_date = April 1, 2019
| next_title = 2445: Checkbox
| next_date = April 1, 2021
| extra_text = [[#Trivia|Learn why this comic was released late]].
}}
{{TOC}}To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2288|original comic}}!

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Need to finish uploading the few files of loot missing (UPDATE: Only a few are missing!!!) and loot descriptions.}}
This comic is a large draggable image that acted as a shared virtual sandbox for users to interact. Chests are "Items" (small and often humorous images) which could be collected from other comics, and then placed in this image by viewers, but today they are no longer dropped. The collection then updated for all viewers in real-time. Multiples of the same item are often seen. There is a "backpack" at the bottom, similar to backpacks in video games containing items collected by the player. As hinted by the title text, items could be found by visiting different xkcd comics/pages. Randomly, some pages would have a treasure chest which contained the sticker related to the page. The hint would refer to the page which currently had a chest.

The image at the origin is a reference to [[1450: AI-Box Experiment]].

The comic contains 32993 separate images. The sticker images can be seen at xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot_'''XXX'''.png, where XXX is a number from 001 to 253. Additionally, some images can be found at custom URLs, for example the periodic elements can be found at <nowiki>h</nowiki>ttps://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/element-'''XX'''.png, where XX is the element, and text loot at xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot-words-'''X'''.png, where X is the sentence. The [https://github.com/xkcd/maple source code] for the comic was released on GitHub.

Placement is limited to 10,000 horizontal units and 5,000 vertical units from the origin. Users received no messages if they try placing something outside the boundary, with a silent fail and the object not being placed. The coordinates are relative to the bottom left corner of the canvas. As the default coordinates are (-370,-277) and the origin is in the center, the displayed portion of the canvas can be found to be twice this in magnitude, 740 x 544 units. The most common image is loot-30.png, which appears 2576 times.

[[File:2288_full.png|100000px|thumb|left|The full image]]{{clear}}

=== Hints ===
For a more minimal list of the stickers found in the comic, see [[2288: Collector's Edition/Stickers]].
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Sticker
!Hint
!Comic
!Item unlocked
!Notes
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_019.png|50px]]
|Doctors in a row
|[[239: Blagofaire]]
|Cory Doctorow
|These comics all have the same hint, but only one will have the chest
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_246.png|75px]]
|Get out the (US) vote
|Chapter 5 of What If? (New York Style Time Machine)
|Statue of liberty
|
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_126.png|75px]]
|Find a box of nice stuff on a picture with words like these
|[[ 1375: Astronaut Vandalism]]
|Signpost
|
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_228.png|50px]] or [[File:Miniloot-words-dispenser.png|75px]] (maybe incomplete)
|Plug in or find another power source
|[[1373: Screenshot]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_090.png|75px]]
|Sweet dreams, kitty
|[[729: Laser Pointer]] (maybe incomplete)
|Cat licking laser point
|
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_185.png|75px]]
|What is this hint pointing to? Hell if I know.
|[[1052: Every Major's Terrible]]
|2 + lightbulb = boat
|
|-
|[[File:loot 197.png|75px]]
|Somebody set up us the bomb
|[[286: All Your Base]]
|Exploding rock/planet crypton
|
|-
|[[File:loot 175.png|75px]]
|Cowabunga
|[[1412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] (maybe incomplete)
|Women Science Fiction Authors
|[[197: Ninja Turtles]] also works
|-
|[[File:loot 210.png|75px]]
|I want to believe
|[[2156: Ufo]]
|Ufo
|
|-
|[[File:loot 044.png|75px]]
|Bleeped
|[[290]], [[398]], [[430]], [[447]], [[533]], [[549]], [[677]], [[724]] or [[1671]]
|*$@#!
|Comics whose titles involve profanities or similar insults.
|-
|[[File:loot 159.png|75px]]
|why waste time say few word when lot word do trick
|[[7]], [[111]], [[139]], [[143]], [[179]], [[217]], [[445]], [[470]], [[822]], [[823]], [[1022]], [[1247]], [[1491]], [[1921]], [[1991]], [[2182]] or [[2231]]
|First Annual Award for Excellence in Being Very Smart
|Comics with titles that are six or more words (with the exception of [[111]], which has five and a spaced dash).
|-
|[[File:loot 006.png|75px]]
|Cooler than electric scooters
|[[139]], [[409]], [[577]], [[578]], [[579]], [[580]] or [[581]]
|An electric skateboard
|
|-
|[[File:loot 095.png|75px]]
|Take it from the top
|[[1: Barrel - Part 1]] (maybe incomplete)
|I am a turtle from [[889: Turtles]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 031.png|75px]]
|I accept the yucca gnocchi, this meal is a success!
|[[1713: 50 ccs]] (maybe incomplete)
|Man carrying parentheses from [[297: Lisp Cycles]]
|
|-
|
|Catch up on the news
|[[1699: Local News]] (maybe incomplete)
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 096.png|75px]]
|Participation trophy
|[[2288: Collector's Edition]] (maybe incomplete)
|Server rack
|
|-
|[[File:loot 161.png|75px]]
|Find an opportunity for a sojourn
|[[665]], [[681]], [[695]], [[1091]], [[1504]], [[1613]], [[1663]] or [[2111]]
|Opportunity Mars rover from [[2111: Opportunity Rover]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 159.png|75px]]
|Tastier than tau day
|[[179: e to the pi times i]] (maybe incomplete)
|First annual award for excellence in being very smart
|Need to find out the difference between this, and the entry below!
|-
|[[File:loot 056.png|75px]]
|Tastier than tau day
|[[235]], [[396]], [[872]], [[1029]], [[1342]], [[1655]] or [[1967]]
|Pie sign
|Published on Pi day
|-
|[[File:loot 216.png|75px]]
|418 I'm a teapot
|[[1866: Russell's Teapot]] (maybe incomplete)
|S.S. NASA: Space is Hard
|
|-
|[[File:loot 205.png|75px]]
|26th September, 1983
|[[2052: Stanislav Petrov Day]]
|White dove
|Might also be written "September 26th, 1983". Locale dependent?
|-
|[[File:loot 151.png|75px]]
|There are 4241 as of Apr 1, 2020
|[[1071: Exoplanets]] (maybe incomplete)
|Little girl from [[2264: Satellite]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 079.png|75px]]
|asableiK
|[[645: RPS]]
|A reverse Polish hotdog
|"Kielbasa" backwards, which is "sausage" in Polish
|-
|[[File:loot 203.png|75px]]
|Critical mass elements
|[[235: Kite]] or [[239: Blagofaire]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 036.png|150x150px]]
|Some Februarys are more equal than others
|[[390: Nightmares]]? (maybe incomplete)
|Cueball wheelie from [[272: Linux User at Best Buy]]
|Comic-hint connection largely conjectural; 390 was the first comic published on a leap day.
|-
|[[File:loot 022.png|150x150px]]
|Five spice
|[[1511: Spice Girl]] or [[1554: Spice Girls]]
|Rock guitarist
|
|-
|[[File:loot 058.png|75px]]
|Call the plumber
|[[423: Finish Line]]
|Luigi in a green Kart
|
|-
|[[File:loot 103.png|150x150px]]
|Was it a rat I saw?
|[[968: Everything]]
|Cueball with a large sack, pulling a wagon
|or [[1503: Squirrel Plan]] for Cueball holding a balloon caught in a ceiling fan.
|-
|[[File:loot 045.png|75px]]
|Churchill's gonna have to seriously rehydrate
|[[346: Diet Coke+Mentos]]
|Bottle of soda
|
|-
|
|Keep coming back
|
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 235.png|75px]]
|A new model released each year
|Triggered by visiting all xkcd phone comics in order
|Phone screaming "Noooo"
|
|-
|[[File:loot 232.png|75px]]
|Tea Time
|From what-if xkcd.com's "Lake Tea" article.
|All our tea
|Not technically from a comic
|-
|[[File:loot 092.png|75px]]
|Try pattern-matching! Look for comic 'bout alphabet?
|[[1045: Constraints]]
|Two Tetris blocks
|
|-
|[[File:loot 021.png|75px]]
|Where's Hilbert?
|[[195: Map of the Internet]] (maybe incomplete)
|Hilbert Curve
|
|-
|[[File:loot 202.png|75px]]
|Science fiction fetish
|[[1585: Similarities]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 250.png|75px]] / [[File:loot 067.png|75px]]
|The first one was funnier
|[[11: Barrel - Part 2]] (maybe incomplete)
|Falling feather / Sign "The uncomfortable truths well"
|
|-
|[[File:loot 127.png|75px]]
|It's up to over 260 million cycles!
|[[1941: Dying Gift]]
|Megan on a tire swing
|
|-
|[[File:loot 163.png|75px]]
|Sleeping Beauty is the same everywhere though
|[[2233: Aurora Meaning]] (maybe incomplete)
|Sleeping Cat
|
|-
|[[File:loot 191.png|75px]]
|On the internet, nobody knows you're an arachnid
|[[1530: Keyboard Mash]] (maybe incomplete)
|Cobwebbed frame from [[1135: Arachnoneurology]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 152.png|75px]]
|Did James Cameron pay for the rice cooker too?
|[[1598: Salvage]] (maybe incomplete)
|Rice bowl
|
|-
|[[File:loot 010.png|75px]]
|Never going to give you up
|[[351]], [[389]], [[396]], [[524]], [[573]], [[609]], [[802]], [[1212]], [[1757]] or [[1981]]
|Cueball in car listening to music
|
|-
|[[File:loot 247.png|75px]]
|If red touches yellow, that's 24 ohms
|[[1604: Snakes]], [[227: Color Codes]]? (maybe incomplete)
|Yoda with an mp3 player from What If
|
|-
|[[File:loot 115.png|75px]]
|An enthusiastic but questionable business opportunity
|[[1021]], [[1032]], [[1117]], [[1293]], [[1493]], [[1533]], [[1772]], [[1812]], [[1871]], [[1903]], [[1997]], [[2140]], [[2209]] or [[2277]]
|Beret guy with a goat on leash
|
|-
|Multiple: loot_106.png, miniloot-words-hair.png, miniloot-words-ominous.png, miniloot-words-eruption.png, miniloot-words-flying.png or miniloot-words-ghost.png (maybe incomplete)
|Read the fine manual
|[[293]], [[434]], [[456]], [[912]], [[1343]] or [[1692]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 209.png|75px]]
|That thing's undecimodal!
|[[1347: t Distribution]] (maybe incomplete)
|Floating tentacled alien
|
|-
|[[File:loot 253.png|75px]]
|Actually, it's Myanmar-Shave now
|[[491: Twitter]] (maybe incomplete)
|Expensive bottle
|
|-
|[[File:loot 002.png|75px]]
|You don't have to find all 99
|[[121: Balloon]] (maybe incomplete)
|Balloon copter
|Or [[51: Malaria]] ?
|-
|[[File:loot 098.png|75px]]
|Going in circles
|[[378: Real Programmers]] (maybe incomplete)
|Cueball spinning in desk chair
|
|-
|[[File:loot 158.png|75px]]
|Couldn't you try knitting, or maybe stamp collecting?
|[[37]], [[53]], [[60]], [[75]], [[79]], [[148]], [[168]], [[174]], [[236]], [[259]], [[287]], [[296]], [[326]], [[331]], [[389]], [[437]], [[451]], [[559]], [[590]], [[605]], [[687]], [[719]], [[733]], [[790]], [[845]], [[966]], [[1004]], [[1119]], [[1145]], [[1169]], [[1208]], [[1278]], [[1304]], [[1329]], [[1340]], [[1355]], [[1405]], [[1480]], [[1546]], [[1598]], [[1677]], [[1697]], [[1705]], [[1788]], [[1795]], [[1960]], [[1995]], [[2032]], [[2123]], [[2208]] or [[2252]]
|Phishing License sign
|Mostly comics that include "My hobby:"
|-
|[[File:loot 069.png|75px]]
|It's the ciiiiircle of HONK
|[[537: Ducklings]] or [[1729: Migrating Geese]]
|DUCKLOOP'D?
|
|-
|[[File:loot 033.png|75px]]
|Fool me twice
|Maybe [[292: goto]]? Need confirmation.
|Raptor Attack
|The second April Fools' Day comic
|-
|
|oOOOoooo
|Maybe [[316: Loud Sex]]? Need confirmation.
|Sleeping cat
|
|-
|[[File:loot 004.png|75px]]
|Maybe we can ask for new wishes
|[[879: Lamp]]
|Genie and his bottle
|If you place the genie last, you get another genie (indefinitely) - Needs verification, this may also just be a bug!
|-
|[[File:loot 130.png|75px]]
|HACK THE PLANET
|[[1337: Hack]] (maybe incomplete)
|Crash and Burn in the pool from the end of ''Hackers''
|
|-
|[[File:loot 162.png]]
|Monetization haute couteur
|[[20]], [[23]], [[55]], [[123]], [[149]], [[150]], [[162]], [[208]], [[231]], [[242]], [[256]], [[273]], [[285]], [[303]], [[327]], [[377]], [[386]], [[420]], [[435]], [[442]], [[482]], [[505]], [[552]], [[556]], [[585]], [[614]], [[627]], [[657]], [[681]], [[688]], [[705]], [[710]], [[802]], [[821]], [[980]], [[1033]], [[1040]], [[1079]], [[1127]], [[1133]], [[1196]], [[1298]] or [[1428]] (maybe false positives)
|Two bags of money
|
|-
|[[File:miniloot-words-eater.png|75px]](maybe incomplete)
|Maybe writing a script would help
|[[1319: Automation]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 245.png|75px]]
|Go big to go small
|[[1365: Inflation]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 237.png|75px]]
|Are you projecting
|[[850]], [[977]], [[1500]], [[1784]], [[1799]], [[2242]] or [[2256]]
|Squirrel on a gun
|
|-
|[[File:loot 007.png|75px]]
|Do spiders really have six legs
|[[8]], [[43]], [[126]], [[427]], [[442]] or [[1110]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 071.png|75px]]
|Istanbul or Constantinople or St. Trimble's Island?
|[[1688: Map Age Guide]]
|Cephalopod
|
|-
|[[File:loot 037.png|75px]]
|Another rulebook?
|[[393: Ultimate Game]]
|Merlin in a chair from [[270: Merlin]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 192.png|75px]]
|Moooooon
|[[482]], [[681]], [[1276]], [[1291]], [[1300]], [[1389]], [[1458]], [[1515]], [[1633]], [[1738]], [[1878]] or [[2258]]
|MOOOOOON
|
|-
|[[File:loot 049.png|75px]]
|Take a flight from LOL to FFS
|[[1937: IATA Airport Abbreviations]]
|
|
|-
|
|Everyone deserves a second chnace
|All comics searched, no matches
|
|The misspelling is intentional. [[745: Dyslexics]] would have been a good fit
|-
|[[File:loot 035.png|75px]]
|Community contribution
|[[822]], [[823]], [[824]], [[825]], [[826]]
|[Citation Needed] protester from [[285: Wikipedian Protester]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 154.png|75px]]
|On the other side of the wardrobe
|[[665: Prudence]], [[969: Delta-P]] or [[2218: Wardrobe]] (maybe incomplete)
|Authentic Reindeer pulling sled from [[1776: Reindeer]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 105.png|75px]]
|Today's your lucky day
|[[1053: Ten Thousand]] (maybe incomplete)
|Ms. Frizzle
|
|-
|[[File:loot 038.png|75px]]
|[This hint has been redacted due to a copyright claim]
|[[1005: SOPA]]
|The tape
|
|-
|loot_times.png or loot_div.png (maybe incomplete)
|Try a different approach
|[[55: Useless]] (maybe incomplete)
|Equals sign
|
|-
|[[File:loot 144.png|75px]]
|The cake is a lie!
|[[606: Cutting Edge]]
|Cake
|
|-
|[[File:loot 026.png|75px]]
|Joanna, fire.
|[[322: Pix Plz]]
|Joanna with EMP cannon
|
|-
|
|Everything changes from time to time when the fire nation attacks
|[[965: Elements]]
|Symposium
|
|-
|[[File:loot 041.png|75px]]
|90KG x 300M
|[[382: Trebuchet]]
|Trebuchet
|
|-
|[[File:loot 046.png|75px]]
|Copyright Enforcement Brigade
|[[344: 1337: Part 4]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 128.png|75px]]
|Where Cape Town meets Chukotka
|[[1500: Upside-Down Map]]
|Crater
|
|-
|[[File:loot 005.png|75px]]
|Take a ride in a barrel
|View all five barrel comics in reverse order ([[31]], [[25]], [[22]], [[11]], [[1]])
|Cueball at the door to the playpen-ball-filled apartment from [[150: Grownups]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 030.png|75px]]
|Compiling...
|[[303: Compiling]]
|Two Cueballs fighting with swords while on chairs
|
|-
|[[File:loot 109.png|75px]]
|
|[[2288: Collector's Edition]]
|Sheeple eye from [[1013: Wake Up Sheeple]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 167.png|75px]]
|
|[[2288: Collector's Edition]]
|Time machine from [[1747: Spider Paleontology]]
|
|}

==Transcript==

:[Cueball stands to the left of a vibrating box.]
:[The words "Collector's Edition" are written above him and boxed.]

==Trivia==
*This comic is the 2020 April Fools' Day comic and was supposed to be released on Wednesday, April 1st. However, it did not go live until Friday, April 3. Meanwhile, Friday's comic, [[2289: Scenario 4]], was published a day later for a [[2289: Scenario 4#Trivia|very rare Saturday release]]. The message below was displayed on the [[Header text|header text]] of the site from Wednesday until the comic finally went live:
:<blockquote>Note: For technical reasons Wednesday's comic will be posted Thursday instead. Apologies for the delay!</blockquote>
:This is one of the few comics released four days after the previous one. The last time this occurred was [[2224: Software Updates]].
*On [[unixkcd]], [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/collectors_edition.png this image] is displayed when you try to display this comic.

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2288: Collector's Edition

2026-06-01T08:35:54Z

This isn't a good name: It's been 6 years.

{{comic
| number = 2288
| date = April 3, 2020
| title = Collector's Edition
| image = collectors_edition.png
| titletext = I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives.
}}
{{series
| series = April
| number = 12
| date = April 3, 2020
| days_late = 2
| day_category = Friday
| prev_title = 1975: Right Click
| prev_date = April 1, 2019
| next_title = 2445: Checkbox
| next_date = April 1, 2021
| extra_text = [[#Trivia|Learn why this comic was released late]].
}}
{{TOC}}To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|2288|original comic}}!

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Need to finish uploading the few files of loot missing (UPDATE: Only a few are missing!!!) and loot descriptions.}}
This comic is a large draggable image that acted as a shared virtual sandbox for users to interact. Chests are "Items" (small and often humorous images) which could be collected from other comics, and then placed in this image by viewers, but today they are no longer dropped. The collection then updated for all viewers in real-time. Multiples of the same item are often seen. There is a "backpack" at the bottom, similar to backpacks in video games containing items collected by the player. As hinted by the title text, items could be found by visiting different xkcd comics/pages. Randomly, some pages would have a treasure chest which contained the sticker related to the page. The hint would refer to the page which currently had a chest.

The image at the origin is a reference to [[1450: AI-Box Experiment]].

The comic contains 32993 separate images. The sticker images can be seen at xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot_'''XXX'''.png, where XXX is a number from 001 to 253. Additionally, some images can be found at custom URLs, for example the periodic elements can be found at <nowiki>h</nowiki>ttps://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/element-'''XX'''.png, where XX is the element, and text loot at xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot-words-'''X'''.png, where X is the sentence. The [https://github.com/xkcd/maple source code] for the comic was released on GitHub.

Placement is limited to 10,000 horizontal units and 5,000 vertical units from the origin. Users received no messages if they try placing something outside the boundary, with a silent fail and the object not being placed. The coordinates are relative to the bottom left corner of the canvas. As the default coordinates are (-370,-277) and the origin is in the center, the displayed portion of the canvas can be found to be twice this in magnitude, 740 x 544 units. The most common image is loot-30.png, which appears 2576 times.

[[File:2288_full.png|100000px|thumb|left|The full image]]{{clear}}

=== Hints ===
For a more minimal list of the stickers found in the comic, see [[2288: Collector's Edition/Stickers]].
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Sticker
!Hint
!Comic
!Item unlocked
!Notes
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_019.png|50px]]
|Doctors in a row
|[[239: Blagofaire]]
|Cory Doctorow
|These comics all have the same hint, but only one will have the chest
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_246.png|75px]]
|Get out the (US) vote
|Chapter 5 of What If? (New York Style Time Machine)
|Statue of liberty
|
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_126.png|75px]]
|Find a box of nice stuff on a picture with words like these
|[[ 1375: Astronaut Vandalism]]
|Signpost
|
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_228.png|50px]] or [[File:Miniloot-words-dispenser.png|75px]] (maybe incomplete)
|Plug in or find another power source
|[[1373: Screenshot]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_090.png|75px]]
|Sweet dreams, kitty
|[[729: Laser Pointer]] (maybe incomplete)
|Cat licking laser point
|
|-
|[[File:2288_loot_185.png|75px]]
|What is this hint pointing to? Hell if I know.
|[[1052: Every Major's Terrible]]
|2 + lightbulb = boat
|
|-
|[[File:loot 197.png|75px]]
|Somebody set up us the bomb
|[[286: All Your Base]]
|Exploding rock/planet crypton
|
|-
|[[File:loot 175.png|75px]]
|Cowabunga
|[[1412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] (maybe incomplete)
|Women Science Fiction Authors
|[[197: Ninja Turtles]] also works
|-
|[[File:loot 210.png|75px]]
|I want to believe
|[[2156: Ufo]]
|Ufo
|
|-
|[[File:loot 044.png|75px]]
|Bleeped
|[[290]], [[398]], [[430]], [[447]], [[533]], [[549]], [[677]], [[724]] or [[1671]]
|*$@#!
|Comics whose titles involve profanities or similar insults.
|-
|[[File:loot 159.png|75px]]
|why waste time say few word when lot word do trick
|[[7]], [[111]], [[139]], [[143]], [[179]], [[217]], [[445]], [[470]], [[822]], [[823]], [[1022]], [[1247]], [[1491]], [[1921]], [[1991]], [[2182]] or [[2231]]
|First Annual Award for Excellence in Being Very Smart
|Comics with titles that are six or more words (with the exception of [[111]], which has five and a spaced dash).
|-
|[[File:loot 006.png|75px]]
|Cooler than electric scooters
|[[139]], [[409]], [[577]], [[578]], [[579]], [[580]] or [[581]]
|An electric skateboard
|
|-
|[[File:loot 095.png|75px]]
|Take it from the top
|[[1: Barrel - Part 1]] (maybe incomplete)
|I am a turtle from [[889: Turtles]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 031.png|75px]]
|I accept the yucca gnocchi, this meal is a success!
|[[1713: 50 ccs]] (maybe incomplete)
|Man carrying parentheses from [[297: Lisp Cycles]]
|
|-
|
|Catch up on the news
|[[1699: Local News]] (maybe incomplete)
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 096.png|75px]]
|Participation trophy
|[[2288: Collector's Edition]] (maybe incomplete)
|Server rack
|
|-
|[[File:loot 161.png|75px]]
|Find an opportunity for a sojourn
|[[665]], [[681]], [[695]], [[1091]], [[1504]], [[1613]], [[1663]] or [[2111]]
|Opportunity Mars rover from [[2111: Opportunity Rover]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 159.png|75px]]
|Tastier than tau day
|[[179: e to the pi times i]] (maybe incomplete)
|First annual award for excellence in being very smart
|Need to find out the difference between this, and the entry below!
|-
|[[File:loot 056.png|75px]]
|Tastier than tau day
|[[235]], [[396]], [[872]], [[1029]], [[1342]], [[1655]] or [[1967]]
|Pie sign
|Published on Pi day
|-
|[[File:loot 216.png|75px]]
|418 I'm a teapot
|[[1866: Russell's Teapot]] (maybe incomplete)
|S.S. NASA: Space is Hard
|
|-
|[[File:loot 205.png|75px]]
|26th September, 1983
|[[2052: Stanislav Petrov Day]]
|White dove
|Might also be written "September 26th, 1983". Locale dependent?
|-
|[[File:loot 151.png|75px]]
|There are 4241 as of Apr 1, 2020
|[[1071: Exoplanets]] (maybe incomplete)
|Little girl from [[2264: Satellite]]
|
|-
|[[File:loot 079.png|75px]]
|asableiK
|[[645: RPS]]
|A reverse Polish hotdog
|"Kielbasa" backwards, which is "sausage" in Polish
|-
|[[File:loot 203.png|75px]]
|Critical mass elements
|[[235: Kite]] or [[239: Blagofaire]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 036.png|150x150px]]
|Some Februarys are more equal than others
|[[390: Nightmares]]? (maybe incomplete)
|Cueball wheelie from [[272: Linux User at Best Buy]]
|Comic-hint connection largely conjectural; 390 was the first comic published on a leap day.
|-
|[[File:loot 022.png|150x150px]]
|Five spice
|[[1511: Spice Girl]] or [[1554: Spice Girls]]
|Rock guitarist
|
|-
|[[File:loot 058.png|75px]]
|Call the plumber
|[[423: Finish Line]]
|Luigi in a green Kart
|
|-
|[[File:loot 103.png|150x150px]]
|Was it a rat I saw?
|[[968: Everything]]
|Cueball with a large sack, pulling a wagon
|or [[1503: Squirrel Plan]] for Cueball holding a balloon caught in a ceiling fan.
|-
|[[File:loot 045.png|75px]]
|Churchill's gonna have to seriously rehydrate
|[[346: Diet Coke+Mentos]]
|Bottle of soda
|
|-
|
|Keep coming back
|
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 235.png|75px]]
|A new model released each year
|Triggered by visiting all xkcd phone comics in order
|Phone screaming "Noooo"
|
|-
|[[File:loot 232.png|75px]]
|Tea Time
|From what-if xkcd.com's "Lake Tea" article.
|All our tea
|
|-
|[[File:loot 092.png|75px]]
|Try pattern-matching! Look for comic 'bout alphabet?
|[[1045: Constraints]]
|Two Tetris blocks
|
|-
|[[File:loot 021.png|75px]]
|Where's Hilbert?
|[[195: Map of the Internet]] (maybe incomplete)
|Hilbert Curve
|
|-
|[[File:loot 202.png|75px]]
|Science fiction fetish
|[[1585: Similarities]]
|
|
|-
|[[File:loot 250.png|75px]] / [[File:loot 067.png|75px]]
|The first one was funnier
|[[11: Barrel - Part 2]] (maybe incomplete)
|Falling feather / Sign "The uncomfortable truths well"
|
|-
|[[File:loot 127.png|75px]]
|It's up to over 260 million cycles!
|[[1941: Dying Gift]]
|Megan on a tire swing
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|[[File:loot 163.png|75px]]
|Sleeping Beauty is the same everywhere though
|[[2233: Aurora Meaning]] (maybe incomplete)
|Sleeping Cat
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|[[File:loot 191.png|75px]]
|On the internet, nobody knows you're an arachnid
|[[1530: Keyboard Mash]] (maybe incomplete)
|Cobwebbed frame from [[1135: Arachnoneurology]]
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|[[File:loot 152.png|75px]]
|Did James Cameron pay for the rice cooker too?
|[[1598: Salvage]] (maybe incomplete)
|Rice bowl
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|[[File:loot 010.png|75px]]
|Never going to give you up
|[[351]], [[389]], [[396]], [[524]], [[573]], [[609]], [[802]], [[1212]], [[1757]] or [[1981]]
|Cueball in car listening to music
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|[[File:loot 247.png|75px]]
|If red touches yellow, that's 24 ohms
|[[1604: Snakes]], [[227: Color Codes]]? (maybe incomplete)
|Yoda with an mp3 player from What If
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|[[File:loot 115.png|75px]]
|An enthusiastic but questionable business opportunity
|[[1021]], [[1032]], [[1117]], [[1293]], [[1493]], [[1533]], [[1772]], [[1812]], [[1871]], [[1903]], [[1997]], [[2140]], [[2209]] or [[2277]]
|Beret guy with a goat on leash
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|Multiple: loot_106.png, miniloot-words-hair.png, miniloot-words-ominous.png, miniloot-words-eruption.png, miniloot-words-flying.png or miniloot-words-ghost.png (maybe incomplete)
|Read the fine manual
|[[293]], [[434]], [[456]], [[912]], [[1343]] or [[1692]]
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|[[File:loot 209.png|75px]]
|That thing's undecimodal!
|[[1347: t Distribution]] (maybe incomplete)
|Floating tentacled alien
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|[[File:loot 253.png|75px]]
|Actually, it's Myanmar-Shave now
|[[491: Twitter]] (maybe incomplete)
|Expensive bottle
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|[[File:loot 002.png|75px]]
|You don't have to find all 99
|[[121: Balloon]] (maybe incomplete)
|Balloon copter
|Or [[51: Malaria]] ?
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|[[File:loot 098.png|75px]]
|Going in circles
|[[378: Real Programmers]] (maybe incomplete)
|Cueball spinning in desk chair
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|[[File:loot 158.png|75px]]
|Couldn't you try knitting, or maybe stamp collecting?
|[[37]], [[53]], [[60]], [[75]], [[79]], [[148]], [[168]], [[174]], [[236]], [[259]], [[287]], [[296]], [[326]], [[331]], [[389]], [[437]], [[451]], [[559]], [[590]], [[605]], [[687]], [[719]], [[733]], [[790]], [[845]], [[966]], [[1004]], [[1119]], [[1145]], [[1169]], [[1208]], [[1278]], [[1304]], [[1329]], [[1340]], [[1355]], [[1405]], [[1480]], [[1546]], [[1598]], [[1677]], [[1697]], [[1705]], [[1788]], [[1795]], [[1960]], [[1995]], [[2032]], [[2123]], [[2208]] or [[2252]]
|Phishing License sign
|Mostly comics that include "My hobby:"
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|[[File:loot 069.png|75px]]
|It's the ciiiiircle of HONK
|[[537: Ducklings]] or [[1729: Migrating Geese]]
|DUCKLOOP'D?
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|[[File:loot 033.png|75px]]
|Fool me twice
|Maybe [[292: goto]]? Need confirmation.
|Raptor Attack
|The second April Fools' Day comic
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|oOOOoooo
|Maybe [[316: Loud Sex]]? Need confirmation.
|Sleeping cat
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|[[File:loot 004.png|75px]]
|Maybe we can ask for new wishes
|[[879: Lamp]]
|Genie and his bottle
|If you place the genie last, you get another genie (indefinitely) - Needs verification, this may also just be a bug!
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|[[File:loot 130.png|75px]]
|HACK THE PLANET
|[[1337: Hack]] (maybe incomplete)
|Crash and Burn in the pool from the end of ''Hackers''
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|[[File:loot 162.png]]
|Monetization haute couteur
|[[20]], [[23]], [[55]], [[123]], [[149]], [[150]], [[162]], [[208]], [[231]], [[242]], [[256]], [[273]], [[285]], [[303]], [[327]], [[377]], [[386]], [[420]], [[435]], [[442]], [[482]], [[505]], [[552]], [[556]], [[585]], [[614]], [[627]], [[657]], [[681]], [[688]], [[705]], [[710]], [[802]], [[821]], [[980]], [[1033]], [[1040]], [[1079]], [[1127]], [[1133]], [[1196]], [[1298]] or [[1428]] (maybe false positives)
|Two bags of money
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|[[File:miniloot-words-eater.png|75px]](maybe incomplete)
|Maybe writing a script would help
|[[1319: Automation]]
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|[[File:loot 245.png|75px]]
|Go big to go small
|[[1365: Inflation]]
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|[[File:loot 237.png|75px]]
|Are you projecting
|[[850]], [[977]], [[1500]], [[1784]], [[1799]], [[2242]] or [[2256]]
|Squirrel on a gun
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|[[File:loot 007.png|75px]]
|Do spiders really have six legs
|[[8]], [[43]], [[126]], [[427]], [[442]] or [[1110]]
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|[[File:loot 071.png|75px]]
|Istanbul or Constantinople or St. Trimble's Island?
|[[1688: Map Age Guide]]
|Cephalopod
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|[[File:loot 037.png|75px]]
|Another rulebook?
|[[393: Ultimate Game]]
|Merlin in a chair from [[270: Merlin]]
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|[[File:loot 192.png|75px]]
|Moooooon
|[[482]], [[681]], [[1276]], [[1291]], [[1300]], [[1389]], [[1458]], [[1515]], [[1633]], [[1738]], [[1878]] or [[2258]]
|MOOOOOON
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|[[File:loot 049.png|75px]]
|Take a flight from LOL to FFS
|[[1937: IATA Airport Abbreviations]]
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|Everyone deserves a second chnace
|All comics searched, no matches
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|The misspelling is intentional. [[745: Dyslexics]] would have been a good fit
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|[[File:loot 035.png|75px]]
|Community contribution
|[[822]], [[823]], [[824]], [[825]], [[826]]
|[Citation Needed] protester from [[285: Wikipedian Protester]]
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|[[File:loot 154.png|75px]]
|On the other side of the wardrobe
|[[665: Prudence]], [[969: Delta-P]] or [[2218: Wardrobe]] (maybe incomplete)
|Authentic Reindeer pulling sled from [[1776: Reindeer]]
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|[[File:loot 105.png|75px]]
|Today's your lucky day
|[[1053: Ten Thousand]] (maybe incomplete)
|Ms. Frizzle
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|[[File:loot 038.png|75px]]
|[This hint has been redacted due to a copyright claim]
|[[1005: SOPA]]
|The tape
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|loot_times.png or loot_div.png (maybe incomplete)
|Try a different approach
|[[55: Useless]] (maybe incomplete)
|Equals sign
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|[[File:loot 144.png|75px]]
|The cake is a lie!
|[[606: Cutting Edge]]
|Cake
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|[[File:loot 026.png|75px]]
|Joanna, fire.
|[[322: Pix Plz]]
|Joanna with EMP cannon
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|Everything changes from time to time when the fire nation attacks
|[[965: Elements]]
|Symposium
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|[[File:loot 041.png|75px]]
|90KG x 300M
|[[382: Trebuchet]]
|Trebuchet
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|[[File:loot 046.png|75px]]
|Copyright Enforcement Brigade
|[[344: 1337: Part 4]]
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|[[File:loot 128.png|75px]]
|Where Cape Town meets Chukotka
|[[1500: Upside-Down Map]]
|Crater
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|[[File:loot 005.png|75px]]
|Take a ride in a barrel
|View all five barrel comics in reverse order ([[31]], [[25]], [[22]], [[11]], [[1]])
|Cueball at the door to the playpen-ball-filled apartment from [[150: Grownups]]
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|[[File:loot 030.png|75px]]
|Compiling...
|[[303: Compiling]]
|Two Cueballs fighting with swords while on chairs
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|[[File:loot 109.png|75px]]
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|[[2288: Collector's Edition]]
|Sheeple eye from [[1013: Wake Up Sheeple]]
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|[[File:loot 167.png|75px]]
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|[[2288: Collector's Edition]]
|Time machine from [[1747: Spider Paleontology]]
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==Transcript==

:[Cueball stands to the left of a vibrating box.]
:[The words "Collector's Edition" are written above him and boxed.]

==Trivia==
*This comic is the 2020 April Fools' Day comic and was supposed to be released on Wednesday, April 1st. However, it did not go live until Friday, April 3. Meanwhile, Friday's comic, [[2289: Scenario 4]], was published a day later for a [[2289: Scenario 4#Trivia|very rare Saturday release]]. The message below was displayed on the [[Header text|header text]] of the site from Wednesday until the comic finally went live:
:<blockquote>Note: For technical reasons Wednesday's comic will be posted Thursday instead. Apologies for the delay!</blockquote>
:This is one of the few comics released four days after the previous one. The last time this occurred was [[2224: Software Updates]].
*On [[unixkcd]], [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/collectors_edition.png this image] is displayed when you try to display this comic.

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3233: Make It Myself

2026-04-15T21:38:10Z

This isn't a good name: adding a bit of formatting

{{comic
| number = 3233
| date = April 15, 2026
| title = Make It Myself
| image = make_it_myself_2x.png
| imagesize = 284x438px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created BY A BOT MADE WITH 20 MINUTES OF CODING, 30 MINUTES OF TROUBLESHOOTING, ANOTHER HOUR OF CODING, AND A SUBSCRIPTION TO CURSOR. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
There are many people who complain about rising prices with the recent trend of high inflation rates. Some people claim that they could make the object themselves. Randall debunks these claims by showcasing the actual effort that goes into projects such as these. In total, Cueball spends $60 creating his replacement, but he ends up just buying the one that they're selling because his replacement didn't work. This means that Cueball actually lost $60 and at least a few hours on this venture.

The title text has Cueball compensating for his losses by deluding himself into believing that the leftover supplies will help him with a future project.
==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
Cueball and White Hat stand together, with Cueball on the right. There are two boxes on the right side of the frame. Cueball is holding his arms out toward the boxes.
Cueball: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.
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3233: Make It Myself

2026-04-15T21:35:45Z

This isn't a good name: first (or so) transcript

{{comic
| number = 3233
| date = April 15, 2026
| title = Make It Myself
| image = make_it_myself_2x.png
| imagesize = 284x438px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created BY A BOT MADE WITH 20 MINUTES OF CODING, 30 MINUTES OF TROUBLESHOOTING, ANOTHER HOUR OF CODING, AND A SUBSCRIPTION TO CURSOR. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
There are many people who complain about rising prices with the recent trend of high inflation rates. Some people claim that they could make the object themselves. Randall debunks these claims by showcasing the actual effort that goes into projects such as these. In total, Cueball spends $60 creating his replacement, but he ends up just buying the one that they're selling because his replacement didn't work. This means that Cueball actually lost $60 and at least a few hours on this venture.
==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
Cueball and White Hat stand together, with Cueball on the right. There are two boxes on the right side of the frame. Cueball is holding his arms out toward the boxes.
Cueball: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.
{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
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3213: Dental Formulas

2026-02-28T00:51:00Z

This isn't a good name: The news company fired me, so…

{{comic
| number = 3213
| date = February 27, 2026
| title = Dental Formulas
| image = dental_formulas_2x.png
| imagesize = 212x337px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created by your new dentist, who has a pure math background. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

A {{w|dental formula}} specifies the number of teeth of each type on each side of the jaw, with dots separating the numbers. There are two rows, representing the upper and lower jaw, separated by a horizontal line. The number of incisors is indicated first, canines second, premolars third, and finally molars, so the formula in the comic would represent 3 incisors, 1 canine, 3 premolars, and 1 molar on each side of the upper jaw, and equal numbers in the lower jaw except only 2 premolars. This is the dental formula for the {{w|Felidae|cat family}}. The adult human dental formula is 2.1.2.3 for both the upper and lower jaw.

Cueball is (wrongly) treating a dental formula as an arithmetic expression, with the line indicating division and the dots indicating multiplication. In the title text his statement that half the formulae are undefined refers to animals that lack one of the four types of teeth in the lower jaw, leading to a zero in the "denominator" of the dental formula and an undefined division expression. He also notes that the "dots are too low", as in fact the dots in a dental formula are {{w|Full stop|period characters}} and aren't meant to imply multiplication, which uses {{w|Interpunct#In_mathematics_and_science|middle dot}} characters.

'Mammologists' is also misused; the correct term is mamm''a''logists. Mammologists study human breasts specifically, usually in a medical context. This may be a deliberate nod towards Cueball not understanding what he's looking at, or may simply be a mistake.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

:[ [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] are standing in front of a whiteboard, on which is written
::3.1.3.1 3.1.2.1
:along with some other scribbles.
:Underneath the panel is the caption, "Mathematicians encounter dental formulas".]

Cueball: Do mammologists think these are hard?

Cueball: I mean this one just evaluates to 3/2.

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Talk:3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

2026-02-26T04:31:44Z

This isn't a good name:

First! Can't believe I'm north! [[User:King Pando|King Pando]] ([[User talk:King Pando|talk]]) 03:34, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:What do you mean that you're north? [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:42, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:You’re north, I’m fourth :) [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 04:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Hi fourth! i'm John [[Special:Contributions/45.178.1.151|45.178.1.151]] 05:31, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::Hi John, I'm Dad. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 11:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::Hi Dad, I’m hungry. [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 18:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::Hi Hungry, I'm Sister! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 22:19, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::What the heck [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::::Hi What The Heck! I'm the unending march of time inexorably moving us towards death! --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 16:58, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::::...alright! [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:39, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::::: Hi ...alright! Do you want a drink? --[[User:Zaphod Beebledoc|Zaphod Beebledoc]] ([[User talk:Zaphod Beebledoc|talk]]) 21:30, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::: Hi doc, I'm up for it! [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 04:31, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
I can't figure out what the red arrows are. My best guess is that they indicate the direction that the map was distorted in that area. It would be good if somebody would explain. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 04:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:I think you are right. here's a rough ([https://imgur.com/a/ESLZmYQ map comparison]) [[User:Sameldacamel34|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34|talk]]) 05:41, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: I thought it might be showing where things are drifting on the map with the current drift of the north pole. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111|2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111]] 10:16, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Wouldn't such a map actually be quite useful to anyone using only a compass to navigate?
[[Special:Contributions/2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD|2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD]] 07:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: Not much. High-end compasses can be calibrated to compensate for declination. At least, this map would avoid having to recalibrate when changing area. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:35, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
: Also, navigation using only a compass and a map typically involves angles with landmarks. That's why usual maps use the Mercator projection: it preserves angles. Since this map doesn't [citation needed], it might be problematic. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 16:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm confused by the cylindrical projection used for this. I would have expected him to use the geomagnetic dipole for the projection axis, but this would put Ellesmere Island at the top of the map, which is clearly incorrect. Instead he seems to have used the geometric axis for the projection (or maybe the axis between magnetic dip poles, which would be similar in 2025?). This joke would have been better 20 years ago when the dip pole was solidly in Canada. [[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 08:35, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I've honestly seen worse "earnest" attempts at map projections. I might use this in the future just to see if anyone even notices.
[[Special:Contributions/2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D|2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D]]

I see the zero line goes more or less through the Rift Valley in East Africa. If the same thing happened a couple of million years ago, it's quite likely every individual in the genus Homo once lived within a couple of degrees of declination.[[Special:Contributions/2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10|2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10]] 14:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I made a [https://awhogue.github.io/zero-declination/output/ map] for the title text. [https://github.com/awhogue/zero-declination Source code]. The answer is 2000. Not sure what the etiquette is for adding it to the explanation. [[User:Ahogue|Ahogue]] ([[User talk:Ahogue|talk]]) 21:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: This is great. I am not sure about the etiquette either, but please go forward and add :-) --[[Special:Contributions/176.199.210.83|176.199.210.83]] 09:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I would really love to see an animation that morphs back and forth between Mercator and this comic. I say Mercator because I suspect it's what the comic map is based on, the goal is to use whichever well-known projection is closest to the xkcd map. If I had any know-how in this field I might try to make that animation myself, but I'd have a really insane learning curve to do it and it's not worth it. --[[User:NeatNit|NeatNit]] ([[User talk:NeatNit|talk]]) 11:47, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

This is definitely the most practical map in the series, I'm sad because I know I'll probably never have a reason to use it. [[Special:Contributions/157.201.96.100|157.201.96.100]] 19:33, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Talk:3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

2026-02-26T04:30:22Z

This isn't a good name: drink... but... very carefully...

First! Can't believe I'm north! [[User:King Pando|King Pando]] ([[User talk:King Pando|talk]]) 03:34, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:What do you mean that you're north? [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:42, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:You’re north, I’m fourth :) [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 04:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Hi fourth! i'm John [[Special:Contributions/45.178.1.151|45.178.1.151]] 05:31, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::Hi John, I'm Dad. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 11:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::Hi Dad, I’m hungry. [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 18:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::Hi Hungry, I'm Sister! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 22:19, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::What the heck [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::::Hi What The Heck! I'm the unending march of time inexorably moving us towards death! --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 16:58, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::::...alright! [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:39, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::::: Hi ...alright! Do you want a drink? --[[User:Zaphod Beebledoc|Zaphod Beebledoc]] ([[User talk:Zaphod Beebledoc|talk]]) 21:30, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::: Hi doc, I'm up for it!
I can't figure out what the red arrows are. My best guess is that they indicate the direction that the map was distorted in that area. It would be good if somebody would explain. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 04:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:I think you are right. here's a rough ([https://imgur.com/a/ESLZmYQ map comparison]) [[User:Sameldacamel34|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34|talk]]) 05:41, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: I thought it might be showing where things are drifting on the map with the current drift of the north pole. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111|2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111]] 10:16, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Wouldn't such a map actually be quite useful to anyone using only a compass to navigate?
[[Special:Contributions/2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD|2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD]] 07:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: Not much. High-end compasses can be calibrated to compensate for declination. At least, this map would avoid having to recalibrate when changing area. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:35, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
: Also, navigation using only a compass and a map typically involves angles with landmarks. That's why usual maps use the Mercator projection: it preserves angles. Since this map doesn't [citation needed], it might be problematic. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 16:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm confused by the cylindrical projection used for this. I would have expected him to use the geomagnetic dipole for the projection axis, but this would put Ellesmere Island at the top of the map, which is clearly incorrect. Instead he seems to have used the geometric axis for the projection (or maybe the axis between magnetic dip poles, which would be similar in 2025?). This joke would have been better 20 years ago when the dip pole was solidly in Canada. [[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 08:35, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I've honestly seen worse "earnest" attempts at map projections. I might use this in the future just to see if anyone even notices.
[[Special:Contributions/2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D|2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D]]

I see the zero line goes more or less through the Rift Valley in East Africa. If the same thing happened a couple of million years ago, it's quite likely every individual in the genus Homo once lived within a couple of degrees of declination.[[Special:Contributions/2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10|2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10]] 14:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I made a [https://awhogue.github.io/zero-declination/output/ map] for the title text. [https://github.com/awhogue/zero-declination Source code]. The answer is 2000. Not sure what the etiquette is for adding it to the explanation. [[User:Ahogue|Ahogue]] ([[User talk:Ahogue|talk]]) 21:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: This is great. I am not sure about the etiquette either, but please go forward and add :-) --[[Special:Contributions/176.199.210.83|176.199.210.83]] 09:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I would really love to see an animation that morphs back and forth between Mercator and this comic. I say Mercator because I suspect it's what the comic map is based on, the goal is to use whichever well-known projection is closest to the xkcd map. If I had any know-how in this field I might try to make that animation myself, but I'd have a really insane learning curve to do it and it's not worth it. --[[User:NeatNit|NeatNit]] ([[User talk:NeatNit|talk]]) 11:47, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

This is definitely the most practical map in the series, I'm sad because I know I'll probably never have a reason to use it. [[Special:Contributions/157.201.96.100|157.201.96.100]] 19:33, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Talk:3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

2026-02-19T03:39:31Z

This isn't a good name: alright :)

First! Can't believe I'm north! [[User:King Pando|King Pando]] ([[User talk:King Pando|talk]]) 03:34, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:What do you mean that you're north? [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:42, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:You’re north, I’m fourth :) [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 04:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Hi fourth! i'm John [[Special:Contributions/45.178.1.151|45.178.1.151]] 05:31, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::Hi John, I'm Dad. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 11:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::Hi Dad, I’m hungry. [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 18:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::Hi Hungry, I'm Sister! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 22:19, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::What the heck [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::::Hi What The Heck! I'm the unending march of time inexorably moving us towards death! --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 16:58, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::::...alright! [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:39, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
I can't figure out what the red arrows are. My best guess is that they indicate the direction that the map was distorted in that area. It would be good if somebody would explain. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 04:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:I think you are right. here's a rough ([https://imgur.com/a/ESLZmYQ map comparison]) [[User:Sameldacamel34|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34|talk]]) 05:41, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: I thought it might be showing where things are drifting on the map with the current drift of the north pole. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111|2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111]] 10:16, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Wouldn't such a map actually be quite useful to anyone using only a compass to navigate?
[[Special:Contributions/2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD|2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD]] 07:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: Not much. High-end compasses can be calibrated to compensate for declination. At least, this map would avoid having to recalibrate when changing area. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:35, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
: Also, navigation using only a compass and a map typically involves angles with landmarks. That's why usual maps use the Mercator projection: it preserves angles. Since this map doesn't [citation needed], it might be problematic. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 16:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm confused by the cylindrical projection used for this. I would have expected him to use the geomagnetic dipole for the projection axis, but this would put Ellesmere Island at the top of the map, which is clearly incorrect. Instead he seems to have used the geometric axis for the projection (or maybe the axis between magnetic dip poles, which would be similar in 2025?). This joke would have been better 20 years ago when the dip pole was solidly in Canada. [[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 08:35, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I've honestly seen worse "earnest" attempts at map projections. I might use this in the future just to see if anyone even notices.
[[Special:Contributions/2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D|2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D]]

I see the zero line goes more or less through the Rift Valley in East Africa. If the same thing happened a couple of million years ago, it's quite likely every individual in the genus Homo once lived within a couple of degrees of declination.[[Special:Contributions/2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10|2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10]] 14:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I made a [https://awhogue.github.io/zero-declination/output/ map] for the title text. [https://github.com/awhogue/zero-declination Source code]. The answer is 2000. Not sure what the etiquette is for adding it to the explanation. [[User:Ahogue|Ahogue]] ([[User talk:Ahogue|talk]]) 21:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: This is great. I am not sure about the etiquette either, but please go forward and add :-) --[[Special:Contributions/176.199.210.83|176.199.210.83]] 09:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I would really love to see an animation that morphs back and forth between Mercator and this comic. I say Mercator because I suspect it's what the comic map is based on, the goal is to use whichever well-known projection is closest to the xkcd map. If I had any know-how in this field I might try to make that animation myself, but I'd have a really insane learning curve to do it and it's not worth it. --[[User:NeatNit|NeatNit]] ([[User talk:NeatNit|talk]]) 11:47, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Talk:3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

2026-02-18T03:16:42Z

This isn't a good name: oops >:(

First! Can't believe I'm north! [[User:King Pando|King Pando]] ([[User talk:King Pando|talk]]) 03:34, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:What do you mean that you're north? [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:42, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:You’re north, I’m fourth :) [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 04:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Hi fourth! i'm John [[Special:Contributions/45.178.1.151|45.178.1.151]] 05:31, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::Hi John, I'm Dad. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 11:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::Hi Dad, I’m hungry. [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 18:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::Hi Hungry, I'm Sister! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 22:19, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::What the heck [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
I can't figure out what the red arrows are. My best guess is that they indicate the direction that the map was distorted in that area. It would be good if somebody would explain. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 04:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:I think you are right. here's a rough ([https://imgur.com/a/ESLZmYQ map comparison]) [[User:Sameldacamel34|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34|talk]]) 05:41, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: I thought it might be showing where things are drifting on the map with the current drift of the north pole. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111|2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111]] 10:16, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Wouldn't such a map actually be quite useful to anyone using only a compass to navigate?
[[Special:Contributions/2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD|2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD]] 07:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: Not much. High-end compasses can be calibrated to compensate for declination. At least, this map would avoid having to recalibrate when changing area. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:35, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
: Also, navigation using only a compass and a map typically involves angles with landmarks. That's why usual maps use the Mercator projection: it preserves angles. Since this map doesn't [citation needed], it might be problematic. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 16:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm confused by the cylindrical projection used for this. I would have expected him to use the geomagnetic dipole for the projection axis, but this would put Ellesmere Island at the top of the map, which is clearly incorrect. Instead he seems to have used the geometric axis for the projection (or maybe the axis between magnetic dip poles, which would be similar in 2025?). This joke would have been better 20 years ago when the dip pole was solidly in Canada. [[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 08:35, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I've honestly seen worse "earnest" attempts at map projections. I might use this in the future just to see if anyone even notices.
[[Special:Contributions/2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D|2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D]]

I see the zero line goes more or less through the Rift Valley in East Africa. If the same thing happened a couple of million years ago, it's quite likely every individual in the genus Homo once lived within a couple of degrees of declination.[[Special:Contributions/2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10|2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10]] 14:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I made a [https://awhogue.github.io/zero-declination/output/ map] for the title text. [https://github.com/awhogue/zero-declination Source code]. The answer is 2000. Not sure what the etiquette is for adding it to the explanation. [[User:Ahogue|Ahogue]] ([[User talk:Ahogue|talk]]) 21:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: This is great. I am not sure about the etiquette either, but please go forward and add :-) --[[Special:Contributions/176.199.210.83|176.199.210.83]] 09:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I would really love to see an animation that morphs back and forth between Mercator and this comic. I say Mercator because I suspect it's what the comic map is based on, the goal is to use whichever well-known projection is closest to the xkcd map. If I had any know-how in this field I might try to make that animation myself, but I'd have a really insane learning curve to do it and it's not worth it. --[[User:NeatNit|NeatNit]] ([[User talk:NeatNit|talk]]) 11:47, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Talk:3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

2026-02-18T03:15:34Z

This isn't a good name: just why :)

First! Can't believe I'm north! [[User:King Pando|King Pando]] ([[User talk:King Pando|talk]]) 03:34, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:What do you mean that you're north? [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:42, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:You’re north, I’m fourth :) [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 04:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Hi fourth! i'm John [[Special:Contributions/45.178.1.151|45.178.1.151]] 05:31, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::Hi John, I'm Dad. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 11:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::Hi Dad, I’m hungry. [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 18:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::Hi Hungry, I'm Sister! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 22:19, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::What the heck <! Why do these reply chains always happen to my comments>[[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
I can't figure out what the red arrows are. My best guess is that they indicate the direction that the map was distorted in that area. It would be good if somebody would explain. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 04:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:I think you are right. here's a rough ([https://imgur.com/a/ESLZmYQ map comparison]) [[User:Sameldacamel34|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34|talk]]) 05:41, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: I thought it might be showing where things are drifting on the map with the current drift of the north pole. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111|2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111]] 10:16, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Wouldn't such a map actually be quite useful to anyone using only a compass to navigate?
[[Special:Contributions/2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD|2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD]] 07:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: Not much. High-end compasses can be calibrated to compensate for declination. At least, this map would avoid having to recalibrate when changing area. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:35, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
: Also, navigation using only a compass and a map typically involves angles with landmarks. That's why usual maps use the Mercator projection: it preserves angles. Since this map doesn't [citation needed], it might be problematic. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 16:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm confused by the cylindrical projection used for this. I would have expected him to use the geomagnetic dipole for the projection axis, but this would put Ellesmere Island at the top of the map, which is clearly incorrect. Instead he seems to have used the geometric axis for the projection (or maybe the axis between magnetic dip poles, which would be similar in 2025?). This joke would have been better 20 years ago when the dip pole was solidly in Canada. [[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 08:35, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I've honestly seen worse "earnest" attempts at map projections. I might use this in the future just to see if anyone even notices.
[[Special:Contributions/2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D|2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D]]

I see the zero line goes more or less through the Rift Valley in East Africa. If the same thing happened a couple of million years ago, it's quite likely every individual in the genus Homo once lived within a couple of degrees of declination.[[Special:Contributions/2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10|2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10]] 14:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I made a [https://awhogue.github.io/zero-declination/output/ map] for the title text. [https://github.com/awhogue/zero-declination Source code]. The answer is 2000. Not sure what the etiquette is for adding it to the explanation. [[User:Ahogue|Ahogue]] ([[User talk:Ahogue|talk]]) 21:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: This is great. I am not sure about the etiquette either, but please go forward and add :-) --[[Special:Contributions/176.199.210.83|176.199.210.83]] 09:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I would really love to see an animation that morphs back and forth between Mercator and this comic. I say Mercator because I suspect it's what the comic map is based on, the goal is to use whichever well-known projection is closest to the xkcd map. If I had any know-how in this field I might try to make that animation myself, but I'd have a really insane learning curve to do it and it's not worth it. --[[User:NeatNit|NeatNit]] ([[User talk:NeatNit|talk]]) 11:47, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Talk:3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

2026-02-18T03:12:54Z

This isn't a good name: What? I still don't understand. (I don't watch TV or whatever this is)

First! Can't believe I'm north! [[User:King Pando|King Pando]] ([[User talk:King Pando|talk]]) 03:34, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:What do you mean that you're north? [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:42, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:You’re north, I’m fourth :) [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 04:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:: Hi fourth! i'm John [[Special:Contributions/45.178.1.151|45.178.1.151]] 05:31, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::Hi John, I'm Dad. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al|DollarStoreBa'al]][[User Talk:DollarStoreBa'al|Converse]] (BLM) 11:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::Hi Dad, I’m hungry. [[User:Logalex8369|Logalex8369]] ([[User talk:Logalex8369|talk]]) 18:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:::::Hi Hungry, I'm Sister! [[User:RadiantRainwing|K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk)]] ([[User talk:RadiantRainwing|talk]]) 22:19, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
::::::What the heck [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 03:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
I can't figure out what the red arrows are. My best guess is that they indicate the direction that the map was distorted in that area. It would be good if somebody would explain. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 04:07, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
:I think you are right. here's a rough ([https://imgur.com/a/ESLZmYQ map comparison]) [[User:Sameldacamel34|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34|talk]]) 05:41, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: I thought it might be showing where things are drifting on the map with the current drift of the north pole. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111|2A02:3103:4C:2400:E259:E2C3:5BDD:1111]] 10:16, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Wouldn't such a map actually be quite useful to anyone using only a compass to navigate?
[[Special:Contributions/2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD|2A06:C701:46AF:2C00:7577:585:1183:EFBD]] 07:37, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: Not much. High-end compasses can be calibrated to compensate for declination. At least, this map would avoid having to recalibrate when changing area. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 14:35, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
: Also, navigation using only a compass and a map typically involves angles with landmarks. That's why usual maps use the Mercator projection: it preserves angles. Since this map doesn't [citation needed], it might be problematic. [[User:Shirluban|Shirluban]] [[Special:Contributions/147.161.153.84|147.161.153.84]] 16:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm confused by the cylindrical projection used for this. I would have expected him to use the geomagnetic dipole for the projection axis, but this would put Ellesmere Island at the top of the map, which is clearly incorrect. Instead he seems to have used the geometric axis for the projection (or maybe the axis between magnetic dip poles, which would be similar in 2025?). This joke would have been better 20 years ago when the dip pole was solidly in Canada. [[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 08:35, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I've honestly seen worse "earnest" attempts at map projections. I might use this in the future just to see if anyone even notices.
[[Special:Contributions/2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D|2A00:FBC:F004:3364:B820:80FF:FEA3:938D]]

I see the zero line goes more or less through the Rift Valley in East Africa. If the same thing happened a couple of million years ago, it's quite likely every individual in the genus Homo once lived within a couple of degrees of declination.[[Special:Contributions/2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10|2A03:E600:100:0:0:0:0:10]] 14:53, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

I made a [https://awhogue.github.io/zero-declination/output/ map] for the title text. [https://github.com/awhogue/zero-declination Source code]. The answer is 2000. Not sure what the etiquette is for adding it to the explanation. [[User:Ahogue|Ahogue]] ([[User talk:Ahogue|talk]]) 21:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
: This is great. I am not sure about the etiquette either, but please go forward and add :-) --[[Special:Contributions/176.199.210.83|176.199.210.83]] 09:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I would really love to see an animation that morphs back and forth between Mercator and this comic. I say Mercator because I suspect it's what the comic map is based on, the goal is to use whichever well-known projection is closest to the xkcd map. If I had any know-how in this field I might try to make that animation myself, but I'd have a really insane learning curve to do it and it's not worth it. --[[User:NeatNit|NeatNit]] ([[User talk:NeatNit|talk]]) 11:47, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Talk:3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

2026-02-14T03:42:31Z

This isn't a good name:

3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

2026-02-06T21:22:22Z

This isn't a good name: :)

{{comic
| number = 3204
| date = February 6, 2026
| title = Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
| image = dinosaurs_and_non_dinosaurs_2x.png
| imagesize = 370x283px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created by something that doesn’t seem like a dinosaur. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

This comic explores the seeming paradox that certain extinct prehistoric species which are popularly thought of as being "dinosaurs" are, from a strict taxonomic viewpoint, not. It also takes into account the fact that all bird species are descended from dinosaurs and thus - again, from a strict taxonomic viewpoint - are themselves dinosaurs as well. To illustrate this, Randall provides silhouettes of dinosaurs, of entities that are widely thought of as dinosaurs but are not, of entities that are ''not'' widely thought of as dinosaurs but ''are'' (i.e., birds), and, lastly, of entities that are neither dinosaurs nor thought of as dinosaurs (which is funny because it's so all-encompassing).

Clockwise from upper left in each quadrant of the image:
* Silhouettes in "seem like dinosaurs / are dinosaurs": stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, diplodocus
* Silhouettes in "don't seem like dinosaurs / are dinosaurs": penguin, egret, falcon, pigeon, ostrich
* Silhouettes in "seem like dinosaurs / are not dinosaurs": mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, pteranodon
* Silhouettes in "don't seem like dinosaurs / are not dinosaurs": squirrel, stapler, bicycle, Cueball, pineapple

The title text is a further joke about taxonomy, predicated on the assumption that staplers are biological organisms (which they are not){{citation needed}}, and can thus be sorted into taxa. ''{{w|Pseudosuchia}}'' is in fact the clade that encompasses all crocodilians, and staplers bear a certain resemblance to the open jaw of a crocodilian.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
:[A 2x2 chart containing various animals and objects.]
* Left column: Are dinosaurs
* Right column: Are not dinosaurs
* Upper row: Seem like dinosaurs
* Lower row: Don't seem like dinosaurs

:[Top left (seem like dinosaurs, are dinosaurs):]
:[Top right (seem like dinosaurs, are not dinosaurs):]
:[Bottom left (don't seem like dinosaurs, are dinosaurs):]
:[Bottom right (don't seem like dinosaurs, are not dinosaurs):]
{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
[[Category:Dinosaurs]]

Talk:2288: Collector's Edition

2026-02-03T18:27:57Z

This isn't a good name: this is on unixkcd, I haven't seen anyone mention it here.

; The joke
Very early on April 1st, Mojang\Microsoft released a version 20w14Infinite build of Minecraft which allows players to create millions of wildly different new worlds by writing text in a book & throwing it through a Nether portal. The world generated depends on what is written in the book, & some specific worlds contain many "starter chests" to help the player in their explorations. Players can share what they wrote in each book with others, allowing multiple players to each access the same new dimensions on their own. In this way, individual single-player Minecraft instances can essentially become a collaboratively evolving game featuring previously nonexistent block types. Given that Randall has done multiple comics referencing Minecraft & seems to be an avid player, & given the presence of "chests" & the "worldbuilding" & collaborative nature of this latest comic, I believe xkcd's April 3rd 2020 comic is a reference to this "final" Minecraft build.
[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 14:10, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:I think this is extremely unlikely. Munroe has comics planned in advance, and a complex interactive comic like this one takes more than a couple hours to make.[[User:Matthias1|Matthias1]] ([[User talk:Matthias1|talk]]) 18:43, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

; The Meta-Message
Beginning one month earlier with [[2275: Coronavirus Name]] (March 2, 2020) there was a long [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] about the {{w|coronavirus}} pandemic. Superficially this April comic is not about the pandemic, but note that anybody anywhere can affect the comic's globally shared sandbox. Credit [[Randall|Randall]] with engineering a script reminding us that {{w|We%27re_All_In_This_Together|"We're all in this together."}} JohnB [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.215|162.158.74.215]] 19:01, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

; Explanation
Clicking on the URLs in the explanation return "File not found". I will remove the hyperlink so people are less confused. [[User:Fwacer|Fwacer]] ([[User talk:Fwacer|talk]]) 02:18, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

; How the comic works
... is this going to be like [[1190: Time]]? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.63|162.158.74.63]] 04:08, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: I hope so, otherwise I don't get the joke [[User:Forresthopkinsa|Forresthopkinsa]] ([[User talk:Forresthopkinsa|talk]]) 04:15, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: The page just went down for me so maybe what we've seen isn't what it's supposed to be? [[User:Avi m|avis_magpie]] ([[User talk:Avi m|talk]]) 04:20, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Looks like the whole comic was just taken down. [[User:Parzivail|Parzivail]] ([[User talk:Parzivail|talk]]) 04:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: Can confirm - the most recent comic is Pathogen again [[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.207|162.158.187.207]] 04:26, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
It is still up on the mobile website, but only if you directly go to comic page https://m.xkcd.com/2288 [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.146|172.69.22.146]] 05:10, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: Perhaps this is a collector's edition because it was only up for a limited amount of time? {{unsigned ip|108.162.219.60|05:12, 3 April 2020}}
:: That was my immediate assumption. The title text says, "I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives." And I was viewing the comic by using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — which, wouldn't you know it, captured the page exactly once before it went down. Between that and the title "Collector's Edition", I can't help thinking that the comic was actually intended to be viewed this way. Though for what reason, and what intended meaning, I couldn't tell you. …And jeez, in the time it took me to type this, the comic is back, but changed! Oy vey. [[User:NoriMori|NoriMori]] ([[User talk:NoriMori|talk]]) 06:42, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Maybe it's called collectors edition, because it was only available quite limited and to an unusual time? But that logic doesn't fit with the title text. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 05:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:I doubt that could be caused by "technical difficulties". [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.186|172.69.34.186]] 06:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

It looks like it went back up about 5 minutes age. I can't figure out if it's possible to do more than pan right now though. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.120|108.162.215.120]] 06:39, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:Yeah I see the same thing, looks like they're just testing it live. What a shame :(--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.242|108.162.215.242]] 06:47, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::what makes you assume that this is testing right now? however it doesn't seem to be very interactive apart from panning through it, and that it seems to chagne over time (the moon from [[1300]] wasn't there a few minutes ago, was it? --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 06:49, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

:It's a giant pan similar to [https://xkcd.com/1110], although it's mostly empty, with some content at [https://xkcd.com/2288/#-361,-161]
. The title reads that you can find world building material, if you scavenge through the archives. I assume, more content will be unlocked as you read through past comics. [[User:Goatfryed|Goatfryed]] ([[User talk:Goatfryed|talk]]) 06:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::That would mean it is individual? That everyone gets their own picture? --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC) Edit: I can kinda rule that out. I get the same picture on my phone and my work laptop, the work laptop is in a different country via vpn, and doesn't share any logins/advertisement ID's apart from explain xkcd with my phone... --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:05, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, it definitely changes. The orange swimming pool just showed up now. Also, at the bottom of the page, it says something about "backpack", and what appears to be a reference to some other xkcd comic. For example, "Hint: why waste time say few word when lot word do trick", which I think refers to Up Goer Five. But I have no idea what to do with that info. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.190|172.68.141.190]] 06:55, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:and the content seems to be related to previous comics and what-ifs... but still no clue what to do apart from exploring the page. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 06:57, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

So I just stumbled upon this and it seems to be exactly as other commentors have theorised: as you read previous comics more stuff gets added to the page. There seems to be some kind of backpack mechanic where you collect items from previous ones somehow, but, perhaps because I've already read all previous comics, that didn't seem to work for me. Instead I just had to click the link above the backpack, which opened the comic in a new tab, and it had a bunch of stuff there. We may need to co-ordinate to figure out if different people end up with different sets of items, and to ensure we have all of them, but I think other than that it should be just a cut and dry thing of making a table with every item in it. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.202|162.158.34.202]] 07:12, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:Hang on, mine just changed: before there was only 1 pool on the left, now there are two. I only went back to pathogens and then forwards agin. This may be harder than I thought, I'm going to start keeping a screenshot log of actions vs. results. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:17, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:You may need to try xkcd.com instead of www.xkcd.com - there seems to be an issue with the latter at the moment. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.216|162.158.255.216]] 07:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::Hold up it changed again! This time without a reload! [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:28, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::It seems to change periodically, the url does change everytime. New stuff always seems to be added, not old stuff rremoved. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:28, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::The URL is related to the coordinates, it changes when you pan the image. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:34, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::Timings seem to be random, working on double checking that rn. Highest first number so far is 1127, once it switches agin I'm going to experiement with manually editing the url.

I was briefly able to do things. Open the archieve, navigate it to one of the comics, that are hinted for (e.g. compiling or iata) and when viewing that comic I get a lootbox, with an image I can then place in the 2288. It worked twice, and now it doesn't again... neither with those that have worked before, nor with others I am fairly sure have been placed by other people. (such as galilean moons) --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:I'm working on assembling an image log, wonder if we could compare? Also, the two number url could be useful, rn I'm on -1378, -152 [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:25, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::What do you mean by compare? Also the URL is related to the coordinates, it changes when you pan the image. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:34, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::Yh just got that, is that the same for other panning comics (I'm a little new)? And I was wondering if the comic changed per person/system like certain previous comics. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 07:40, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::Just seen a previous comment from you saying it doesn't change cross-system. However, it definetely changes with time, so the question is whether that's per user or done on a sort of universal clock, so we all unlock the same new content at the same time.
:::::I didn't complete writing up the thing I was able to do above... after opening the lootbox I got one image related to the comic I opened in my backpack and was able to place that in the actual 2288, where it now is placed. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:50, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::For me that didn't happen, it started with a loading screen type thing, and then objects just started appearing seemingly at random. I've also noticed some of them dissapear. I feel like the best course of action would be to start with a table of all the different objects, and then see if we can figure out when/why they appear later.
::::::: At least 2 objects appeared, because I placed them. It is a colaboration of many xkcd readers to do this world building here. I placed one of the sword fights around #439,-181 and the non-inverted kite at #-1679,-290 . --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:55, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::::Do you agree that the best course of action would therefore be a table with all the items? [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 08:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::::::::Not a big fan of tables, unless there really is content of muliple categories to be entered for one line. A list would do fine I guess? Also I find lists easier to work with. Or what would be the columns you'd set up? --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 08:08, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::::::Something along the lines of the comic that it's a reference to, an image, and an explanation. Do we know if you find the same sticker at the same comic every time? If so, then that. A list would work well too. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 08:12, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::::::From looking at what image URLs don't 404, it looks like there are 253 stickers, which is quite a lot for a table.[[User:Matthias1|Matthias1]] ([[User talk:Matthias1|talk]]) 10:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::::I think we can unlock new elements by reading older comics (seemingly at random, it doesn't work with every comic read) and that everyone can see the changes once they are put on the global picture. If someone could check, I have put berret guy and his goat around (5000,0)
::::::Yep, he's there. [[User:Benkor42|Benkor42]] ([[User talk:Benkor42|talk]]) 08:01, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

I almost feel like someone needs to show them this xkcd... https://xkcd.com/169/

It seems to be an interactive canvas. You can find stickers in chests on specific comics and put them in your backpack, and then when you come back here you can choose where to put them on the canvas. The hints in the empty backpack are cryptic references to comics. {{unsigned ip|162.158.107.85}}
:Yep, I figured the same thing, but for me it only worked twice (fly from wtf to lol was a reference to the iata thing and compiling was a reference to the compiling one) - but it didn't work again. Also: Some of the placed images are clearly references to what-if. Like the squirrel on top of an AK47 or the yoda powering an IPOD. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:59, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

I've made a catalog of the stickers but it's only partial because stuff keeps appearing: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dPYeYVpGqu5tqGTt5 [[User:Lev|Lev]] ([[User talk:Lev|talk]]) 08:02, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

I got it. I wrote the steps on reddit and included some screenshots. Feel free to use it to edit this page https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/fu1dt0/xkcd_2288_collectors_edition/fmaqp1w/ [[User:Ufolicker|Ufolicker]] ([[User talk:Ufolicker|talk]]) 09:27, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Am I too late to participate in this or am I doing something wrong? Where is this hint supposed to appear? I only see an empty backpack and the canvas on which references to different comics are placed. No comic I've visited, either inspired by references on the canvas, nor by random selection has any chest or other interactive components to it. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 09:53, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:No, you're doing it right. Hints show up in the backpack area. Obviously no one is sure of anything, but even users who have seen hints have reported not seeing hints on a different browser/device. I suspect something similar to [https://xkcd.com/1037/ Umwelt], where different hints are shown to different people. And I think once a chest is picked up, it stops appearing to everyone that could see it, but that's a guess.[[User:Matthias1|Matthias1]] ([[User talk:Matthias1|talk]]) 10:03, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::Ok, I was unsure because on my windows 10 laptop I have yet to see a hint. I've tried chrome, firefox and internet explorer. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 11:09, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::Finally got it to work in Safari in iOS [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 11:13, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::::That's really great, Bischoff, we were worried about you. Care to share how you did it, for the benefit of others? [[User:Jimmbo|Jimmbo]] ([[User talk:Jimmbo|talk]]) 14:19, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
::::I took part in the scavenger hunt and about 2 hours ago it stopped showing hints. So I assume it shut down and there is nothing to do anymore.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [[User:Curse|Curse]] ([[User talk:Curse|talk]]) 15:15, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::::I think everybody gets a limited number of hints, and once you've found them all it won't show any more to you, but other people can still get hints. [[User:Pelosujamo|Pelosujamo]] ([[User talk:Pelosujamo|talk]]) 20:09, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
::::::Nope, it's not that. I visited this comic for the first time today, and no hints for me at all. [[User:Dansiman|Dansiman]] ([[User talk:Dansiman|talk]]) 14:16, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

When I view the comic, I don't see the closed box - the screen is absolutely full of stickers. I've not done any scavenger hunting (I'd upload an image, but I don't have permissions to do so) [[User:Kvetch|Kvetch]] ([[User talk:Kvetch|talk]]) 11:10, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Hints I've seen so far: "The first one was funnier" (chest appeared in comic 1, contained I'm a turtle);
"418 I'm a teapot"
"26th September, 1983" (comic 2052, Stanislav Petrov Day, white dove); [[Special:Contributions/172.69.134.135|172.69.134.135]] 11:20, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps a table for found chests with no attached hints? I've stumbled across a few but don't know if they're hinted at or not :). [[User:Deranged|Deranged]] ([[User talk:Deranged|talk]]) 11:54, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:Maybe add a line to the table with a blank first box, the link in the second box, empty third box? Someone will match it up. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.166.37|162.158.166.37]] 12:21, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

"Churchill's gonna have to rehydrate" is Nothing to Offer. Can't remember what number, I think 1148?

In other news, the bad ads are back ([[Talk:2220: Imagine Going Back in Time/Ads|previous discussion]]) - who's in charge of dealing with them anyway? [[User:Arcorann|Arcorann]] ([[User talk:Arcorann|talk]]) 12:25, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Could someone post an image showing what it looks like to find a chest on a comic? I've browsed to some of the comics referenced as having chests but couldn't see one so far. Thanks![[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.13|141.101.69.13]] 12:54, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:I've uploaded a few images on https://imgur.com/gallery/4q1QIW5. Can't upload them here yet, new account [[User:Madsmtm|madsmtm]] ([[User talk:Madsmtm|talk]]) 13:24, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

"The other side of the wardrobe", someone's put in the solution [[2218: Wardrobe]]; but I also found the chest on [[665: Prudence]]. Can there be multiple solutions to the same hint? [[User:Angel|Angel]] ([[User talk:Angel|talk]]) 13:00, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Is anyone else having issues with things just not working? I clicked around a bit, it gave me the award in being very smart, and now won't give me any hints or chests. [[User:Crazymachinefan|Crazymachinefan]] ([[User talk:Crazymachinefan|talk]]) 13:57, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
::I am also not getting any hints anymore after getting one chest.[[User:Eesley|Eesley]] ([[User talk:Eesley|talk]]) 14:01, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:::Nope, nothing to get anymore. [[User:Curse|Curse]] ([[User talk:Curse|talk]]) 15:15, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

The "Was it a rat I saw" hint is probably [[1632: Palindrome]]. I haven't gotten the hint yet, so I can't confirm. [[User:Nvaiko24|Nvaiko24]] ([[User talk:Nvaiko24|talk]]) 14:12, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Interestingly, the [[1110: Click and Drag]] disables the backpack overlay. Also, anyone have any news on how to get the Go Big to Go Small hint?

I got the "First annual award for excellence in being very smart" on page 7, rather than 179 as stated above. Can't remember what the hint was. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.222|162.158.34.222]] 14:26, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Found that award on comic 7, too. And "Researchers are reporting record number of sharks (loot 159) on comic 1368, but I'll be damned if I know the hint. Those give me nothing [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.43|162.158.91.43]] 14:44, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Found another one! It's a bug on a box, loot_007. From comic #442, no idea what hint goes with it. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.7|162.158.74.7]] 15:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

For the ooOOOooo hint, I've now gone through every comic, and none of them give a chest. [[User:Lawruble13|Lawruble13]] ([[User talk:Lawruble13|talk]]) 19:41, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
: Well that's just ducky! I'm stuck on that hint. Any way to get the hint to change without losing my collectibles? Anonymous 02:19, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

If you scroll almost directly upward, the Y-coordinate keeps resetting to 5000 (same with downward and -5000. However, if you scroll up and to the side with a slope of less than 1, you eventually get to this URL: https://xkcd.com/#-Infinity,-Infinity which just has the word "[LOADING_]" hand-drawn. -- brad
: I think that's just Javascript floatingpoint math for ya. The loading image just appears while it is trying to load in new tiles --[[User:Jhollowe|Jhollowe]] ([[User talk:Jhollowe|talk]]) 19:11, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

I wrote a script that gives a list of all the loot images that are on the page if we want to make a complete list of loot images, and a list of images that haven't been found yet. --[[User:Jhollowe|Jhollowe]] ([[User talk:Jhollowe|talk]]) 19:11, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Has anyone else gotten a "miniloot"? I just got "/2288/collectors/static/loot/miniloot-words-laser.png" from [[293: RTFM]] with the hint listed in the above table. [[User:Lawruble13|Lawruble13]] ([[User talk:Lawruble13|talk]]) 19:41, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

In a private window on Firefox, I had previously seen the hint, but it's now disappeared. I got loot_109.png (which is the sheeple eye from [[1013: Wake Up Sheeple]]), and I can place it, but it stays in the inventory. Possible bug? [[User:Lawruble13|Lawruble13]] ([[User talk:Lawruble13|talk]]) 19:43, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
:Viewable at https://xkcd.com/2288/#453,1003, both eyes posted using the same item. [[User:Lawruble13|Lawruble13]] ([[User talk:Lawruble13|talk]]) 19:50, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

The "tea time" hint seems a bit weird; I found it at [[579: The Race: Part 3]], and others have apparently found it at 581, 578, 479 and maybe elsewhere. Not sure what connection any of those comics have to tea, except that 579 and 479 both have 79 in them and the image is from what-if 79. [[User:Pelosujamo|Pelosujamo]] ([[User talk:Pelosujamo|talk]]) 01:17, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't know if there's an element of "the clue you get depends on the clues you answered"..? Yesterday, when I first visited, it seemed to be giving different hints as I scrolled through/jumped around the comics looking for the answers to earlier hints. Now (after finding three, confirmed as listed in the table) it's just flipping between two of the early once, the "chnace" and "fetish" ones, still undetailed in the table so I can't even cheat) leading me to believe I'm left with those two in my (personal?) 'pool' of hints, and I won't get any more until I answer one or other. Either that or I need to ''place'' my current meagre three discoveries, but I was actually wanting more first so I could be creative in combination... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.141|162.158.93.141]] 04:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Are "oOOOoooo" and "oooooooo" different clues? I don't see the second one listed.

Unless I missed something, "Hint: Everyone deserves a second chnace" doesn't refer to a particular comic, but rather something else. I went through comics 500-2288. -- [[User:162.158.92.22|162.158.92.22]] ([[User talk:162.158.92.22|talk]]) 08:29, 4 April 2020‎ (UTC) ''(please sign your comments with <nowiki>~~</nowiki>~~)''
:Probably requires a sequence of comics to be visited in specific order, like "A new model released each year" or "Take a ride in a barrel" [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 11:29, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Random question--is there a way to edit or delete items once they have been placed? This world is pretty messy.... -- [[User:162.158.74.65|162.158.74.65]] ([[User talk:162.158.74.65|talk]]) 14:12, 4 April 2020‎ ''(please sign your comments with <nowiki>~~</nowiki>~~)''

I had these hints (along with 2 other) hints: oOOOoooo, Keep coming back, Everyone deserves a second chance. I have visited ''every'' comic and every series on [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comic_series this list], forwards and backwards, and none of them was awarded. They are either glitched or have very unusual requirements. Maybe something with one of the interactive comics? (I even tried collecting all coins in Hoverboard!) Maybe there is something that Randall considers a series but this wiki doesn't? Something else altogether (visit the same comic a number of times, return after elapsed time...)? I am giving up, if someone gets one of these and is up to the challenge, good luck, hopefully I helped a bit with getting a small list of things not to try. [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 14:58, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

; Browser agent related issues

; Post what browser (Chrome, Firefox; mobile, desktop) you are using here & what issues (if any) you experience when interacting with this comic.

On Chrome version 80.0.3987.162 in mobile view, only "Collector's Edition" appears for me. The comic is not scrollable or interactive, & the backpack does not appear. In desktop view, the collectively added content appears, as does the backpack. (I have not tested whether I can add things, yet.)
[[User:ProphetZarquon|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon|talk]]) 13:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

On Chrome version 80.0.3987.163 on desktop, the hint doesn't seem to appear. [[User:Lawruble13|Lawruble13]] ([[User talk:Lawruble13|talk]]) 19:41, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Firefox 74.0 on desktop - looks like I don't get any hints. Everything else seems to be fine. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.98|162.158.92.98]] 19:59, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

:Apologies if this has been covered, but if you right-click-->inspect the backpack area, can you see the hint in the Java script? I can't find it with Chrome running in Windows 10, but it is entirely possible I don't know how/where to look.[[User:Godzilla|Godzilla]] ([[User talk:Godzilla|talk]]) 21:38, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

On Opera, hint doesn't appear.

In Firefox I have an item in my loot box, I can scroll around the world and the text is "find an empty area". I find an empty area (Damn long way out :P ) and the text changes to "place it" or "Cancel" I can cancel OK, but place it doesn't work at all. Is this a bug or have I hit the limit of my abilities? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.86.34|172.68.86.34]] 01:05, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

:oh...wait...there is a 5 second or more delay from clicking to it appearing. May be caused by the size of the world and number of elements. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.86.34|172.68.86.34]] 01:08, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Firefox 52.9 Windows XP Doesn't get past "loading" and cannot drag around. However, the backpack does appear and can be closed and opened. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.174.76|172.68.174.76]] 04:20, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I tried Samsung browser (mobile, tablet), Chrome (mobile, desktop) and Edge (desktop). At first, only the Samsung browser on only one of the devices worked. Then it glitched, I got infinite Polish sausages and no more hints. It unglitched after deleting browser data. Then glitched after deleting browser data gain (I was stuck and wanted fresh batch of hints, karma is a bitch, I guess). Then it started working again after clearing browser data few more time. Then, on one occasion, I got a set of hints on desktop Chrome in incognito mode. Something weird is going on related to cookies, it seems. [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 07:35, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

FireFox/Ubuntu, nothing is working. No bag, no hint, whatever.

Firefox/Chromium on Ububntu, I seem to see evertything, it looks like this for example: https://ibb.co/BL1gDvX or https://ibb.co/PCByw8f (all add-ons disabled, chrome in standard settings)

; Screenshots

Since this appears to be a time-limited event, I decided it would be good idea to save some screenshots for posterity. I have uploaded several screenshots:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:2288_hint_1.png
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:2288_hint_2.png
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:2288_chest.png
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:2288_chest_open.png
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:2288_place_item.png
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:2288_place_item_cant.png
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:2288_place_item_kitty.png

Add them to the article as you see fit. [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 09:29, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Also, on unixkcd, this image is displayed when you try to display this comic:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/collectors_edition.png [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 18:27, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

; Spelling

I've moved this from [[2288: Collectors Edition]] to [[2288: Collector's Edition]], which is both the correct spelling and the one used on xkcd; but was it misspelled on xkcd earlier, or did the typo originate here? [[User:Pelosujamo|Pelosujamo]] ([[User talk:Pelosujamo|talk]]) 20:09, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

New Comic:

I don't know if anyone has noticed since it's Saturday and xkcd doesn't usually update. But there's been a new comic 22889: Scenario 4. Can someone who knows how and actually has an account add the next page for it.

Thanks,

--[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.207|173.245.52.207]] 22:08, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

; Interactivity finished

Now that the next comic ([[2289]]) has been published it looks like the ability to interact and find chests has ended. This is going to make it quite difficult to complete the table unless someone manages to reverse-engineer the code. Also noting that whilst there are >250 possible images there are only 80 hints listed in the table. It's not clear if all images were used - perhaps comparing the images in the table to those placed in the comic could help identify any that we don't have known hints for?

I was also wondering if it's worth including a thumbnail of each image in the table, and possibly a separate list of images for which the hint is not known?
[[User:A(l)Chemist|AlChemist]] ([[User talk:A(l)Chemist|talk]]) 10:15, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
:I did some quick ctrl+F in [https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/client/comic/comic.js the client codes] for comic numbers, item names etc. and it doesn't appear to contain the relevant information, must be server-side. Maybe one of the devs listed at the top of the page would leak something if asked nicely? [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 14:35, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

::I managed to extract a list of all the images used in the comic along with how many times they appear. It looks like most are used, but there are a few that aren't. [[User:A(l)Chemist|AlChemist]] ([[User talk:A(l)Chemist|talk]]) 13:27, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
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{{cob}}
; orphaned page

[[2288: Collector's Edition/Stickers]] is an orphaned page, and should probably either be linked to on this page, or deleted. what do you guys think? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.87|108.162.237.87]] 13:07, 22 November 2021 (UTC)BUmpf

; Connection to Polandball

The setup of the comic looks a lot like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countryballs#Origin original "Polandball"].--[[Special:Contributions/172.69.246.142|172.69.246.142]] 18:14, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

3202: Groundhog Day Meaning

2026-02-02T16:20:18Z

This isn't a good name: :)

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| number = 3202
| date = February 2, 2026
| title = Groundhog Day Meaning
| image = groundhog_day_meaning_2x.png
| imagesize = 257x378px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created by someone stuck in a time loop. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

This comic was posted on Groundhog Day, February 2nd. Cueball is shown explaining the holiday to Black Hat.

Groundhog Day originates from a superstition regarding the behaviour of a groundhog. Supposedly, if the groundhog does not see its shadow, the spring thaw is likely to happen shortly thereafter. If it does see its shadow, however, it is frightened and retreats into its burrow, and six more weeks of winter await.

''Groundhog Day'' is also the title of a film starring Bill Murray. In the film, Murray's character is trapped in a time loop centered on Groundhog Day; no matter how his day ends - whether by falling asleep at the end of the day or dying somewhere during the event - he wakes up on the morning of Groundhog Day again, retaining his memories of the previous loop(s) while the rest of the world sees nothing amiss. The movie has {{tvtropes|GroundhogDayLoop|become synonymous with the plot element of a time loop}} in English-speaking cultures.

Black Hat, apparently representing someone who has never heard of Groundhog Day in any context, is baffled. Whether his reaction is due to the historical origin, the time loop plot, or the incongruity between the two meanings is left as an exercise for the reader.

{{incomplete|This page was created by someone stuck in a time loop. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

This comic was posted on... Oh, shit, not again.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

:Cueball: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean "a time loop experienced by one person."
:Black Hat: ...what.

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Easily our weirdest holiday.

{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>

explain xkcd talk:Sandbox

2026-01-28T22:46:51Z

This isn't a good name: It works

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::This is not. —[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User:While False/explain xkcd museum|'''museum''']] | [[User talk:While False|talk]] | [[special:Contributions/While_False|contributions]] | [[special:Log/While_False|logs]] | [[Special:UserRights/While_False|rights]] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&printable=yes printable version] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&action=info page information] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:While_False what links there] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&days=30&from=&target=User%3AWhile_False related changes] | [https://www.google.com Google search] | current time: {{CURRENTTIME}}) 18:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

:A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.155.55|172.71.155.55]] 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this

furhhfghure guyrburgryhuyvfr "rvhru"
interesting way of writing quotations xd
:hmmm this one of putting "" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

::Please beware that on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. [[User:Zmatt|Zmatt]] ([[User talk:Zmatt|talk]]) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from [[User:An user who has an account|An user who has no account yet]] ([[User talk:An user who has no account yet|talk]]) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

hi uh its hard to get here.
is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.216|108.162.241.216]] 02:05, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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This is the leaderboard: {{Special:ContributionScores/50/7/nosort,notools}}

<a href=" [AT THE JULY 28TH MEETING][tab] "Cancel the meeting! Our cover is blown.">
More testing: hello doesthiswork (yesitdoes) [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 22:44, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

explain xkcd talk:Sandbox

2026-01-28T22:44:37Z

This isn't a good name: Zero-width space testing

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:A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.155.55|172.71.155.55]] 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this

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interesting way of writing quotations xd
:hmmm this one of putting "" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

::Please beware that on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. [[User:Zmatt|Zmatt]] ([[User talk:Zmatt|talk]]) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from [[User:An user who has an account|An user who has no account yet]] ([[User talk:An user who has no account yet|talk]]) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

hi uh its hard to get here.
is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
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Talk:3198: Double-Pronged Extension Cord

2026-01-27T00:50:28Z

This isn't a good name:

F1rSt!1!!1!1!!1!1!1!11!11!1!!!!1!1![[User:Qwertyuiopfromdefly|Qwertyuiopfromdefly]] ([[User talk:Qwertyuiopfromdefly|talk]]) 02:08, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

curses, im too early on the scene for an explanation of what he's gonna do with the items in the titletext; such are the woes of being one of the people writing the explanations that you have to actually ''understand'' the comics - [[User:Vaedez|Vaedez]] ([[User talk:Vaedez|talk]]) 02:15, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Same [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 02:17, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
: Same what? [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 09:41, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

I was too early for the page to have an explanation of what was going on [[User:This isn't a good name|This isn't a good name]] ([[User talk:This isn't a good name|talk]]) 00:50, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

This is the third comic to reference the Demon Core experiment, after [[1242]] and [[2593]]. [[User:Soupgirls|Soupgirls]] ([[User talk:Soupgirls|talk]]) 02:21, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
: >"''Demon Core experiment''": [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core Demon Core]No, I don't understand either --[[User:PRR|PRR]] ([[User talk:PRR|talk]]) 03:26, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

If you're otherwise creating fire hazards, a lithium ion battery is a terrible thing to have, and none of the horror stories you've heard involved a sack of them. Flour is a serious explosion hazard. Vinegar and bleach will release chlorine gas when combined. It sounds like an attempt to have the highest ratio of destruction to materials cost with the least effort. [[User:MrMatt|MrMatt]] ([[User talk:MrMatt|talk]]) 03:32, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

The title text just sounds like a bunch of flammable/noxious substances. So really, he has good intentions. [[User:Tanner07|Tanner07]] ([[User talk:Tanner07|talk]]) 03:57, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Would someone mind explaining how the suicide cord can kill grid workers? I don't know if this is easier to understand in the US - we work on a ring main system in the UK, and (once it is plugged in and the prongs thus protected) I'm having problems seeing why it would be a problem even to the end-user (I suppose you could theoretically use it to connect a ring main rated for less current and set the walls on fire?)
EDIT: Gemini reminded me that these are generally used to connect a generator, to power up internal wiring that is depowered - if the grid worker has done this deliberately to work upstream and you power things back up things get ugly. [[Special:Contributions/92.237.46.83|92.237.46.83]] 08:48, 24 January 2026 (UTC) Jon
:The problem is if you don't plug one end in --[[User:Darth Vader|Darth Vader]] ([[User talk:Darth Vader|talk]]) 10:52, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
:Electrician here, Suicide cords are used to 'backfeed' a circuit. Homeowners make them when they are too cheap to add a generator outlet. When plugged in, one side has exposed live parts which can shock or kill you. The other danger is backfeeding the grid itself when plugging in a generator (hence lineworker danger) for the exact reason that line interactive inverters for solar arrays need to shut down when the grid is off. Line workers are expecting dead lines when they come down and backfeeding them may make them live on the ground or while the worker is holding them. The proper way to power a house is to have a generator outlet installed and an interlocked panel that disconnects the mains power from your panel (isolating the power lines) and connects the generator power to specific circuits you want. {{unsigned ip|73.146.168.31|11:30, 24 January 2026 (UTC)}}

I added a "Trivia" note that two days before this comic was posted, Randall had put up a YouTube video version of the ''What If?'' item about what would happen if someone's DNA all disappeared. It was compared to the effects of receiving a massive dose of ionizing radiation. The connection between this comic and Slotin's accident seemed relevant to me, at least enough for a "Trivia" item, but another editor disagreed and removed it. Opinions? [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 15:03, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

I've noticed that recently, these explanations start off very short and without the same humor that most explainxkcd explanations have, and almost appear to be written by AI, before being replaced by a longer explanation that seems more in the vein of this website. Could someone explain what's happening here, and if AI is being used? [[User:CreatorOfWorlds|CreatorOfWorlds]] ([[User talk:CreatorOfWorlds|talk]]) 15:32, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
:"Any sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from a lazy unimaginative human" -- Clarke's AI bot's Third Law [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]])
:I'd guess that the initial explanations are often written by people who want very much to be the first to write something, and prioritize that speed over quality. I've felt that urge a couple of times, but fought it down. :-) [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 19:22, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
::Sorry, more or less guilty as charged. My excuse is that it was an awkward time in my timezone. I will try to do better, but realistically, I don't foresee myself being at the peak of my creativity at that time. [[User:Dratini0|Dratini0]] ([[User talk:Dratini0|talk]]) 01:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)
:Another common request vector is for people who have [https://x.com/kobunheat/status/1336134415336964096 strung a line of Christmas lights backwards] and don't want to rehang them. [[Special:Contributions/210.185.98.84|210.185.98.84]] 21:17, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Regarding "50 lithium batteries": the comic doesn't specify 50, but a pun has slyly been inserted here: {{w|Voltaic pile}} (there are other, somewhat relevant, types of piles as well!) So a "pile" may weigh in less than 50. But there are myriad dangers with lithium-ion batteries. They have many failure modes. So it may not be helpful to focus in on just one of them. I mean, clearly some kind of mischief is going to be wrought, but we really don't know what shape it will take without a list of accessories that are directly related to the "pile of batteries". [[User:Elizium23|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23|talk]]) 14:32, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

The correct way to use multiple power sources in case of emergency would be through an appropriate design such as the use of a multi-input UPS with an acid-lead battery for a buffer. This approach could possibly entail the use of "double-pronged" cords in an ill-designed home-made setup. {{unsigned ip|2001:861:3f07:a020:c61f:2d42:ade8:f326|23:24, 25 January 2026}}
:Dear IPv6, welcome to explainXkcd, and please sign your posts with four tildes. Anyway, I am not sure how your comment is relevant to this comic. There is absolutely no "emergency" portrayed here. It seems Cueball isn't in a big rush to get that equipment he wants. Nor is he really preparing to react to an emergency situation. Rather, he seems intent on doing an experiment that will create one, instead. As for batteries and a "multi-input UPS" I suppose that is a fine idea for power outages. Certainly, a "double-pronged AC cord" could be used to "backfeed" the electricity into a home's circuits. But again, I do not see the relevance of your proposed setup to this comic. The title text describes a pile of lithium-ion batteries because it's clearly aimed at creating a disaster by causing them to explode or catch fire in some way. Nobody's getting ready to survive an extended power outage. [[User:Elizium23|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23|talk]]) 23:41, 25 January 2026 (UTC)i
::dear Eelizstuffandother, I understand your snide and I do apologize for not signing my post. "suicide cords" are the way to feed 'leccy down an electrical circuitry. If fed through a properly-configured UPS, the problem disappears. Such setups usually make use of lead-acid batteries to buffer the load, as the tech is well-proven, reliable, and less prone to unexpected emergencies. For the record my private personal networw relies on 2 lead-acid UPS and while my oven and other appliances have sufferered from power interruptions several times in the past year, my private network never fell. XOXXO [[Special:Contributions/2001:861:3F07:A020:C61F:2D42:ADE8:F326|2001:861:3F07:A020:C61F:2D42:ADE8:F326]] 00:11, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Cueball isn't planning to support plutonium with the extension cord; the extension cord would hold up a beryllium half-sphere that goes over the plutonium core and reflects just enough neutrons back into it that, along with the similar reflector underneath, the core starts a chain reaction. (At least, it he's recreating the 1946 experiment.) [[Special:Contributions/2A02:8084:2862:4F80:65B7:327D:E614:342F|2A02:8084:2862:4F80:65B7:327D:E614:342F]] 01:59, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

This is the third comic that references the "demon core". What's the standard here for "enough pages to justify a tag"? [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 05:02, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

This is the third comment that references the fact that this is the third comic that references the "demon core". [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 10:53, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

The top paragraph currently states that such cords would be "likely to cause a short circuit", but I think that this would only occur if the cable was plugged into two wall outlets such that live is connected to ground, which I believe to be unlikely to happen as such a setup wouldn't serve any purpose. I believe to have heard that the fire risk instead stems from overload by connecting too much christmas lights together, but I do not have enough knowledge of US christmas lights to edit the page myself. If anyone does, feel free to correct me or edit the page. [[Special:Contributions/213.55.233.114|213.55.233.114]] 11:57, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Talk:3198: Double-Pronged Extension Cord

2026-01-24T02:17:34Z

This isn't a good name: