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User:Yfmcpxpj

2022-05-29T10:20:46Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* This site */ Remove spamfighter category - no longer exists.

= This site =
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value !! Special Pages
|-
| '''Name'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SITENAME}}
| rowspan="3" |
* [[Talk:Main Page]]
* [[explain xkcd:Community portal]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/All]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous]]
|-
| '''Domain'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|-
| '''URL'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVER}}
|-
| '''Version'''
| <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></code>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
|
* [[Special:Version]] – full version information
|-
| '''Statistics'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:Statistics]] – site statistics
|-
| '''Messages'''
| <pre>{{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}}
{{int:xkcd-com}}
{{int:xkcd.com-url}}
{{int:xkcdstore}}
{{int:xkcdstore-url}}</pre>
| {{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}} {{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}} {{int:xkcd-com}} {{int:xkcd.com-url}} {{int:xkcdstore}} {{int:xkcdstore-url}}
|
* [[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=8
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}
* [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
* [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]]
* [[MediaWiki:Tagline]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd-com]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url]]
|-
| '''CSS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.css]]
|-
| '''JS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.js]]
|-
! colspan="4" | Pages
|-
| '''Edits'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}
|
* [[Special:RecentChanges]] – recent edits
|-
| '''Pages'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
|
* [[Special:AllPages]] – all pages
* [[Special:NewPages]] – recently-created pages
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] – uncategorized pages
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] – pages that link to nothing
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] – pages to which nothing links
** [[:Category:Pages to delete]] – pages marked for deletion
* [[Special:WantedPages]] – linked non-existent pages
* [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – pages protected from creation
* [[Special:ProtectedPages]] – pages protected from editing
* [[Special:PrefixIndex]] – query sub-pages
* [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] – query linked pages
* [[Special:SpecialPages]] – special pages
* [[Special:Watchlist]] – watched pages
* [[Special:Search]] – search
|-
| '''Files'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=6
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}
* [[Special:ListFiles]] – query all files
* [[Special:NewFiles]] – recently-created files
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]] – uncategorized files
* [[Special:UnusedFiles]] – files to which nothing links
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] – linked non-existent files
|-
| '''Categories'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=14
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}
* [[Special:Categories]] – all categories
** [[:Category:Root category]] – root category
** [[:Category:Meta]] – meta category
** [[:Category:explain xkcd]] – site category
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] – uncategorized categories
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] – categories used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] – used non-existent categories
* [[Special:TrackingCategories]] – error categories, etc.
|-
| '''Templates'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=10
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}
* [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]] – uncategorized templates
* [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] – templates used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]] – used non-existent templates
|-
| '''Redirects'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:ListRedirects]] – all redirects
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – redirects to nothing
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – redirects to redirects
|-
! colspan="4" | Users
|-
| '''Users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers]] – query all users
* [[Special:Contributions]] – query user contributions
* [[Special:UserRights]] – query user groups/permissions
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] – group permissions
|-
| '''Bureaucrats'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] – query all bureaucrats
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bureaucrat
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
|-
| '''Administrators'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
{{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] – query all administrators
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
|-
| '''Bots'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] – query all bots
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bot
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}
|-
| '''Active users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] – query all active users
|}

= This page =

* [[Special:MyPage]]
** [[User:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Yfmcpxpj
*** [[Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
**** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=User:Yfmcpxpj
**** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
***** {{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

== Subpages ==
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=User:Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Subpages
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki></code>
| {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
|}

=== CSS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.css]]

=== JS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.js]]

== Statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value
|-
| '''ID'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONID}}
|-
| '''User'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|-
| '''Size (bytes)'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONSIZE}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONSIZE}}
|-
| '''Timestamp'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| '''Year'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
| '''Month''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
|-
| '''Date''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
|}

= This user =
* [[Special:MyTalk]]
** [[User talk:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Yfmcpxpj
* [[Special:Contributions/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions?target=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}
* [[Special:UserRights/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights?user=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}

= Reference =

== Links ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
! colspan="3" | Internal links
|-
| Enclose the page name between double square brackets.
| <code><nowiki>[[1]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1]]
|-
| Provide an optional alternate title after a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[1|title]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
|-
| To prevent category inclusion, prefix with a colon.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics]]
|-
| To hide the namespace, append a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics|]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics|Comics]]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to internal pages
|-
| Bare URL, optionally specifying the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter.
| <pre>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no</pre>
| https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no
|-
| Enclose a protocol-relative or canonical URL between square brackets,
and provide an optional alternate title after a space.
| <pre>[//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function, bare, or between square brackets
with an optional alternate title, with optional query parameters.
| <pre>{{canonicalurl:1}}
{{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}}
[{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| {{canonicalurl:1}} {{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}} [{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to broken internal pages
|-
| colspan="3" | What if internal links are broken to pages ending with question marks or with special characters in the name? (Indeed, ''[[what if?]]'') Instead, the page simply says, "No input file specified." In that case, you can use specific forms of external links to reach the page.
|-
| Specify the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter in a link.
| <code><nowiki>[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function with a query parameter such as <code>redirect=no</code>.
| <code><nowiki>[{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function with a query parameter
such as <code>redirect=no</code> in a protocol-relative URL.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
! colspan="3" | Special links
|-
| Link to a '''MediaWiki''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[mw:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></code>
| [[mw:MediaWiki]]
|-
| Link to a '''template''', formatted in wiki syntax
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tl|tl]]|tl}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
| {{tl|tl}}
{{template|template}}
|-
| Link to a comic's '''explanation'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{explain|1}}
{{explain|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to the '''most recent''' comic's explanation
| <code>{{tl|most recent comic}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{tl|LATESTCOMIC}}]]</code>
| {{most recent comic}}
[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]
|-
| Link to a '''diff'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}</code>
| {{diff|1}} {{diff|1|first diff}} {{diff|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}
|-
| '''Plain link'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:link|link]]<nowiki>|https://example.com|example link}}</nowiki></code>
| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to a comic '''transcript''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
|-
| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
{{what if|1|Relativistic Baseball}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
| <code>{{tl|w}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:en:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[w:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{w}} {{w|xkcd}} {{w|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}} [[Wikipedia:xkcd]] [[Wikipedia:xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia]] [[Wikipedia:en:xkcd]] [[w:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wiktionary''' definition
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wiktionary:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[wikt:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| {{Wiktionary|malamanteau}} {{Wiktionary|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}} [[Wiktionary:malamanteau]] [[wikt:malamanteau]]
|-
| Link to a '''RationalWiki''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
|-
| Link to an '''IMDb''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[IMDb:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IMDb:A New Hope]] [[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]] [[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]] [[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]] [[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]
|-
| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[TVtropes:AssPull]]</nowiki></code>
| {{tvtropes|AssPull}} {{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}} [[TVtropes:AssPull]]
|-
| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Urbandict:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}} [[Urbandict:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wookieepedia''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wikia''' project and article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Mozilla Developer Network''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wayback Machine/Internet Archive''' page history
| <code><nowiki>[[IArchive:xkcd.com]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IArchive:xkcd.com]]
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Google:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Cache:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| Some text.{{Lookup|xkcd}} [[Google:xkcd]] [[Cache:xkcd]] [[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]
|}

== Annotations ==

{| class="wikitable"
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|-
| Citation needed
| <code>Text needing citation.{{tl|Citation needed}}</code>
| Text needing citation.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| Dubious
| <code>Dubious text.{{tl|Dubious}}</code>
| Dubious text.{{Dubious}}
|-
| NSFW
| <code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].</nowiki>{{tl|NSFW}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].{{</nowiki>[[Template:NSFW|NSFW]]|reason}}</code>
| [https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW}}
[https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW|reason}}
|-
| Note
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:note|note]]|some note}}</code>
| {{note|some note}}
|-
| Quote
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author|source}}</code>
| {{Quote|text}}{{Quote|text|author}}{{Quote|text|author|source}}
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User:Yfmcpxpj/Template:comic 2x test

2021-07-16T21:04:29Z

Yfmcpxpj: Undo revision 214957 by Mariam Carlson (talk) – spam

<includeonly><metadesc>Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.</metadesc><table class="{{{bodyclass|}}}" cellspacing="5" style="background-color: #FFFFFF;
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This is a test version of [[Template:comic]], which is the basic infobox-style header template used to display [[xkcd]] comics on their own pages, including the comic number (with external link to xkcd), publication date, title, comic image, and title text. This particular version adds a "2x" button to link to the comic's double-resolution image on xkcd.com.

== Sample ==

The following is a sample usage of this template:
{{User:Yfmcpxpj/Template:comic 2x test
| number = 1084
| date = July 20, 2012
| title = Server Problem
| image = server_problem.png
| titletext = Protip: Annoy Ray Kurzweil by always referring to it as the 'Cybersingularity'.
}}

== Usage ==

<pre>{{User:Yfmcpxpj/Template:comic 2x test
| number =
| date =
| title =
| before =
| image =
| custom =
| imagesize =
| titletext =
| ldomain =
| lappend =
| override2x=
| omit2x =
}}</pre>

=== Notes ===

* At least the number, title and image are required.
* The date should be written in the form: January 1, 2006
* The imagesize field is optional.
** The comic's '''width''' will be limited to the set size. Format must be in pixels (eg: "350px")
** The comic's '''height''' may be set by adding an 'x' to the start (eg: "x350px")
** Warning: If the size is larger than the image, the image will be stretched.
* '''before''' is a special field for inserting text before the comic. One use is for extremely large comics (e.g. [[Umwelt]]), to skip to the explanation.
* If the '''custom''' field is not empty, the image field will be ignored and be replaced with any text that you put in the '''custom''' field.
* if '''number''' is left undefined, most of the navigation bar will be disabled.
** '''lappend''' must be defined as <pre>...kd.com/'''lappend'''/</pre> to keep the link to xkcd.com valid.
** If the link is to eg. a blog post (blog.xkcd.com) '''ldomain''' can be defined as <pre>blog</pre> to change the subdomain in the link.
* For comics as of [[1084]], a "2x" button will automatically appear, linking to the double-size version of the comic on xkcd.com. That behavior can be modified with the following optional parameters:
** If the 2x image for a particular comic doesn't exist, or has some other problem, the "2x" button can be omitted by specifying a non-zero/non-empty value for '''omit2x''' (example: <code>omit2x=true</code>).
** Or, if the ''filename'' of the 2x file is different, a specific image filename can be specified for '''override2x''', even for older comics (example: <code>override2x=server_problem_2x.png</code>).

The above sample is produced by the following code:

<pre>{{User:Yfmcpxpj/Template:comic 2x test
| number = 1084
| date = July 20, 2012
| title = Server Problem
| image = server_problem.png
| titletext = Protip: Annoy Ray Kurzweil by always referring to it as the 'Cybersingularity'.
}}</pre>

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File:board game argument legacy.png

2021-07-16T21:03:32Z

Yfmcpxpj: Undo revision 214961 by Mariam Carlson (talk) – spam

User:Yfmcpxpj/Template:comic 2x test

2021-06-27T08:58:57Z

Yfmcpxpj: Undo revision 214294 by Jack wang (talk) – spam

1127: Congress

2021-04-23T21:44:38Z

Yfmcpxpj: Undo revision 91399 by Pawtiko (talk) – transcript: the word "position" is repeated in the comic

{{comic
| number = 1127
| date = October 29, 2012
| title = Congress
| before = [[#Explanation|↓ Skip to explanation ↓]]
| image = congress.png
| titletext = It'd be great if some news network started featuring partisan hack talking heads who were all Federalists and Jacksonians, just to see how long it took us to catch on.
}}

Click the date above the comic to go to the xkcd page, and there is a link to the [http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ much larger version].

==Explanation==
It appears that the (at the time) {{w|United States presidential election, 2012|upcoming 2012 election}} has put [[Randall]] into a political state of mind, as this is the second comic in a few weeks that has dealt with political history ([[1122: Electoral Precedent]]). As with that comic, this comic goes through the entire history of the {{w|Federal government of the United States|U.S. Federal Government}}. Also notably, Randall makes a number of observations that are akin to the type of observations Randall denounces in 1122 (e.g. for 1928, Randall notes that no Republican has since won the presidency without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket). Just around the election he posted two more comics related to this: [[1130: Poll Watching]] and [[1131: Math]].

===U.S. Federal Government===
In the {{w|Federal government of the United States|U.S. Federal Government}}, one of the {{w|Separation of powers|checks and balances}} is a {{w|bicameralism|bicameral}} {{w|United States Congress}}, which consists of two "houses": the {{w|United States Senate|Senate}}, its "upper" house; and the {{w|United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives}} ("the House"), its "lower house". The Senate consists of 2 senators elected from each state (thus 100 total), while the House consists of 435 voting representatives (a number decided upon in {{w|Apportionment Act of 1911|1911}} by law) whose {{w|United States congressional apportionment|apportionment}} is split between the states proportional to their population; although each state gets at least one (the House also has non-voting representatives from unincorporated territories like {{w|Puerto Rico}} and the {{w|District of Columbia}}). Every ten years, the House is reapportioned based on the latest census. The most populous state as of 2012 is California which has 53 seats in the House. Senators serve 6-year terms with elections held every 2 years for one-third of the seats. Members of the House (called Representatives or Congressmen/women) serve 2-year terms with all of the seats contested every 2 years.

In order for a bill to become a law, it must be passed by both the House and the Senate. In a way, this theoretically ensures that the bill is supported both by the majority of states (the Senate), and the majority of the population (the House). The President may then sign the bill into law, he may "veto" the bill, or he may do nothing, in which case it becomes a law if and only if Congress is in session after a waiting period of 10 days (not including Sundays).

===Political ideologies===
In politics, there is a {{w|political spectrum|scale}} that represents the political beliefs of a politician. The scale goes from "{{w|Left-wing politics|left}}" to "{{w|Right-wing politics|right}}" of "center" — which generally describes a balancing point of beliefs (sometimes called "left-wing" or "right-wing").

The "left" is a general belief in social justice, and is sometimes associated with {{w|socialism}}. Modern left-wingers generally prioritize equality, and support policies like welfare and government-subsidized healthcare. This trends toward having a larger federal government. In the U.S., "liberal" is a term often used to denote left-leaning tendencies.

The "right" generally believe in personal responsibility and individual liberty, which is often termed {{w|conservatism|conservative}}. This trends towards having less regulation and thereby a smaller federal government. The goal is to keep the nation stable, and reducing the interference by the government with a person's wealth. This ostensibly means lower taxes, because the government does not provide as much.

Politicians typically align themselves into groups of similar beliefs and positions called "parties". In the U.S., there have generally been two dominant parties, although there have been times where three or more parties have shared roughly equal influence and support. In today's politics (which is apparently known as (the second part of) the fifth era of political parties, or {{w|Fifth Party System}}, as noted on the outside edges of the comic) of the two current primary U.S. political parties, the {{w|Democrats}} are the left-leaning party, and the {{w|Republicans}} are the right-leaning party. The dominant parties are generally considered "moderate" in their left- or right-wing leanings, as either party appears to requires the support of a majority (or a few percent under) of voters to win. However, this is complicated by a process called gerrymandering where election boundaries are redrawn to allow a political advantage to the party currently in power. Thus a popular majority state wide or any ratio of votes to representatives will not necessarily be reflected in delegates awarded, an example being the Republicans' REDMAP 2012 report ([http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/01/21/16630863-virginia-republicans-move-for-permanent-majority]). Smaller parties often run candidates with more extreme views, but such candidates rarely win, due to a more limited number of possible supporters ensuring that even a relatively large minority would have zero chance of representation. (see {{w|Duverger's law}}).

===The comic===
The comic effectively consists of three separate charts: The left- and right-hand charts are the main charts; they represent the Senate and House respectively, and purport to show the left- and right-wing leanings of each legislature through U.S. history. There is a legend on the right that sets out fairly clearly how the charts work, but basically Randall has split each wing into three levels including the very moderate or "Center" right or left, and the more extreme or "Far" right or left, as well as the average left and right without prefix. A dotted yellow line represents the balance of power in each legislature, and white lines represent the leanings of certain notable people including presidents.

Some presidents are not indicated, because they were never senators or congressmen (most of these were state Governors, such as {{w|Bill Clinton|Clinton}}, {{w|George W. Bush|Bush}} and 2012 candidate {{w|Mitt Romney}}). As may be noted from the chart, {{w|Barack Obama}} is considered "left" while {{w|Paul Ryan}} is considered "far right". It's also notable that the "center right" ideology appears to be completely eradicated from the House and is waning in the Senate (although a similar trend is shown around 1900 with the centrists making a comeback thereafter).

On either side of these charts, there are descriptions or explanations for expansions and contractions of each ideological group.

The center chart appears to primarily act as a timeline. Each president is listed with their leanings indicated by a left or right arrow. Wars are shaded in grey. Other notable events are also indicated. On either side of the center chart (although somewhat mixed in with the aforementioned Senate/House explanations), there are also references to the primary parties of each era showing how they evolved (left-leaning parties on the left, and right-leaning parties on the right).

Finally, there's a little extra commentary on the right side, below the legend.

===The title text===
The title text refers to two political parties in American history: the Federalists and the Jacksonians.

Note that this means the two parties are not strictly contemporaries. There are features of both the modern Republican and Democratic parties in each, so depending on the topic presented, it may take a long time to figure out that they are not these modern parties until the topic of discussion changes. They do, however, make a nice dichotomy.

The Federalists are one of the oldest political parties in American History. Federalists were seen as conservative in their time, and similarly to modern Republicans much of their support came from bankers and businessmen and they were committed to a fiscally sound and government, but on the flip side they favored a strong central government, regulation of industry, a national banking system, and were protectionistic.

The Jacksonian party is one of the four branches of the Democratic Party that developed during the political chaos after the Federalist party died out in the War of 1812. The Jacksonians were considered liberal for their time, they believed in one man, one vote, regardless of standing, and their mascot was a donkey and they're the ancestors of the modern Democratic Party, but on the flip side they did not want a strong national government and believed that the government should have limited impact in the regulation of industry, going so far as to end the bank of the United States, and were fiercely expansionistic.

Network news channels regularly feature {{w|Pundit|talking heads}}, supposed 'experts' who offer their opinion on the topical political stories. Where these talking heads are strongly aligned with a particular party, and are unconcerned with anything other than winning, they could be described as a {{w|Partisan|partisan}} {{w|Political hack| hacks}}.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript}}
*This transcript is neither only a representation the visible text in the small image or all of the text in the full image.
*Since there is text visible all over even the small image it would be most relevant to have a full transcript.
**Or at least make a separate transcript page like for [[980: Money\Transcript]].
**In the latter case this transcript below should then be reduced to only visible text in small image!

:A history of
:'''The United States Congress'''
:Partisan and ideological makeup

:[The comic is divided into three massive sections, SENATE, PRESIDENCIES, and HOUSE. Timelines run backwards down the page between each section. In the HOUSE and SENATE sections, shifting, curving red and blue areas of different brightness illustrate the shifting balance of power between "Members of Left-Leaning Parties" and "Members of Right-Leaning Parties". Under PRESIDENCIES, different administrations are labeled and wars are shaded in gray. There are notes throughout all sections.]

:[There are additional notes on the right.]

:LEGEND
::''[Square containing ribbons of color merging upwards with larger areas]'': Branches join in when new members enter Congress and cause an ideological bloc to grow. (Note: If the new member is elected as another retires from the same ideological bloc, no change is shown.)
::''[Square containing ribbons of color splitting off from larger areas]'': Branches split off when members leave Congress, causing their ideological bloc to shrink. (Note: If the new member is elected as another retires from the same ideological bloc, no change is shown.)
::''[Square showing yellow dotted line crossing from red to blue area]'': The yellow line marks the midpoint, which indicates which side has control of the chamber.
::''[Square in which curve briefly separates from blue area]'': If a bloc loses members in one election and gains them in the next, the exiting stream may rejoin. This does not necessarily mean the same people returned.
::''[Square showing white dashed line labeled Lyndon Johnson on top of ribbon merging with main area]'': Future (and past) US Presidents who served in Congress are shown with white dashed lines. Other noteworthy members are shown with thin solid lines.
::''[Square in which tinted area marked "Whig" sits over mix of red and blue areas]'': Tinted white outlines mark the approximate membership of some of the smaller political parties.

:HOW IDEOLOGY IS CALCULATED
::Each member of Congress is assigned to an ideological category using DW-NOMINATE, a statistical system created by political scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. This system rates each member of Congress's ideological position position [sic] based on their votes.
::DW-NOMINATE is purely mathematical and involves no judgement on the content of bills. Instead, members of Congress are placed on a spectrum based on how consistently they vote together.
::While people argue that ideology is many-dimensional, Poole and Rosenthal found that nearly all Congressional voting behavior - especially in the modern era - can be accurately predicted by using just one ideological variable.
::This variable turns out to roughly correspond to position on the classic economic liberal/conservative spectrum.
::Because members of Congress have served in overlapping terms with past members in a chain back to the first Congress, the system allows comparison of ideology across time - even accounting for individual members' ideological drift. (Note: Scores are comparable across time but not between chambers.)
::For more detail, see Poole and Rosenthal's website, voteview.com.



==Trivia==
* The axis for the senate is mislabeled; on the right, it goes 0-10-20-30-40-50-'''40-40'''-80.
*A print version of this comic is available in the [https://store.xkcd.com/products/congress-poster xkcd store].

{{comic discussion}}
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Talk:1557: Ozymandias

2021-03-19T01:17:21Z

Yfmcpxpj: Moved comment from explanation to discussion.

Look upon this comment and despair! {{unsigned ip|173.245.50.164}}
: The fact that the true author of this comment may never be known is reason enough to despair.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.66|173.245.55.66]] 14:35, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
: An unrelated but interesting piece of trivia about Ozymandias: "Ozymandias" is the Greek name of the pharaoh Ramesses II, one of the most famous of the Egyptian pharaohs, who built many monuments that still stand today. So the poem, which has a ruler whose monument has crumbled and who is implied to be nearly forgotten, is in fact completely inaccurate! [[User:JoeNotCharles|JoeNotCharles]] ([[User talk:JoeNotCharles|talk]]) 15:23, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
:: Perhaps the Ozymandias King of Kings from the poem is not the same one as Ozymandias the pharaoh? So he's doubly forgotten, because he has a more famous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/namefellow namefellow]! [[User:Leoboiko|Leoboiko]] ([[User talk:Leoboiko|talk]])

So... [http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Planepacked Planepacked]? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.145|173.245.50.145]] 05:44, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

The page seems to give a description, but not an explanation of the joke. I still don't get it! Why has Ozymandias been singled out for this treatment? Is there some way in which recursion is particularly appropriate or inappropriate in this case, or has it just been selected arbitrarily? Is the whole joke that recursion is inherently funny? Normally when recursion is used in XKCD it's making a larger point, or cleverly riffing on something in particular. This isn't just Describe XKCD, so I'd love to see an explanation of this comic. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.47|141.101.99.47]] 09:35, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

:The poem Ozymandias, like the statue of the king,can be thought of as a pinnacle of achievement for its civilizarion- in this case, English civilization. So it is entirely possible that one day, after the fall of this civilization, the poem will fill the same role for it that the statue filled for Ozymandias' (fictional) civilization. [[User:Bbruzzo|Bbruzzo]] ([[User talk:Bbruzzo|talk]]) 15:33, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

:May it be that Ozymandias is chosen because of Smith’s poem, where at last London has vanished, suggesting that Shelley’s poem is the last remains of British civilization? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.193|162.158.91.193]] 10:04, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

:I think Ozymandias was chosen because its opening is particularly famous. Even people who don't know much about poetry are often passingly familiar with it, and there's something funny about playing with well-known classics. And yes, I do believe the joke is that infinite recursion is inherently funny. There's a long tradition of these recursion-jokes among computer scientists and math people (like the "GNU" acronym, or recursive index references), with precedents in xkcd itself. [[User:Leoboiko|Leoboiko]] ([[User talk:Leoboiko|talk]])

In Germany, we have a childrens’ song „Ein Mops kam in die Küche“, which translates as follows (there are slightly different versions, though):

A pug came into the kitchen / and stole an egg from the chef. / Then the chef took his knife / and mashed the pug. // Then many pugs came / to his grave / and set a memorial for him, / where these words were written: // “A pug came into the kitchen …”

Maybe something similar exists in English? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.193|162.158.91.193]] 10:04, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

:We have:

: This is the song that doesn't end, / Yes, it goes on and on, my friend, / Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, / And they'll continue singing it / Forever, just because [repeat] :''— [[User:Tbc|tbc]] ([[User talk:Tbc|talk]]) 12:34, 29 July 2015 (UTC)''

:There's also:
::I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
::I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes...[repeat] {{unsigned ip|197.234.243.249}}

:: In Dutch: "Het was nacht, stikdonkere nacht. Veertig rovers zaten rond een vuur. De roverhoofdman stond op een zei: "Het was nacht, stikdonkere nacht... " "
:: Which translates to something along the lines of: "It was night, a pitchblack night. 40 robbers sat round a fire, their leader stood up and said: "It was night, a pitchblack night..." "
:: Sometimes the fire is replaced by the shadow of a dandelion. "..Forty robbers sat in the shadow of a Dandelion, their Chief stood up and said: "It was a dark night, forty robbers sat in the shadow of a dandelion", etc. -- [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.67|141.101.104.67]] 13:01, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

::: The version I learned is: It was a dark and stormy night / and the good ship Marigold sailed the stormy seas. / The captain staggered down the steps / and said, "Mate, tell us a story!" / and the mate began, / "It was a dark and story night... --[[User:Mflansburg|Mflansburg]] ([[User talk:Mflansburg|talk]]) 15:44, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

:I've heard a very long infinitely recursive song in English, which is a variant of "The Bear Went Over the Mountain". The standard lyrics are:

:: The bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see / And all that he could see, and all that he could see / Was the other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain, and that's what he could see.

: Well, the infinite variant goes:

:: The bear went over the mountain the bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see / And all that he could see, and all that he could see / Was a valley in the mountain, a valley in the mountain, a valley in the mountain, and that's what he could see
:: The bear went over the mountain the bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see / And all that he could see, and all that he could see / Was a lake in the valley, a lake in the valley, a lake in the valley, and that's what he could see
:: ... a sailboat on the lake ...
:: ... a man in the sailbot ...
:: ... pants on the man ...
:: ... a pocket in the pants ...
:: ... a nickel in the pocket ...
:: ... a beaver on the nickel ... (Note: I just realized this line only works in Canada, where the five cent coin has a picture of a beaver on it.)
:: ... a hair on the beaver ...
:: ... a flea on the hair ...
:: ... cells in the flea ...
:: ... a prisoner in the cells ...
:: ... pants on the prisoner ...
:: ... a pocket in the pants ...
:: etc.

: I prefer a slightly shorter version which goes from "a pocket in the pants" to "a dime in the pocket", then "a sailboat on the dime" (which again only works in Canada), and back to "a man in the sailboat". [[User:JoeNotCharles|JoeNotCharles]] ([[User talk:JoeNotCharles|talk]]) 15:14, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

:: I thought everyone (American) knew the song (needs music notation) "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea?" One version finally ends with "There's a germ on the flea on the hair on the speck on the spot on the wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea." But kids make up all sorts of variations. Or they used to. [[User:Taibhse|Taibhse]] ([[User talk:Taibhse|talk]]) 10:00, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

: There's also [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.30|108.162.215.30]] 20:28, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

:: Yon Yonson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yon_Yonson
:: Mighty mighty - https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070602235838AA6qSzz {{unsigned ip|108.162.215.30}}

::
Note that the recursion doesn't necessary be infinite. The list of travelers who met each other can have fixed length, for example 10. Imagining that the list is infinite is the joke. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:06, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
: I think that might be the point actually, the idea is that with each time someone tells the poem to someone else, it grows by one, for each traveler from an antique land has been told by by a different traveler from an antique land[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.39|108.162.219.39]] 01:08, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Should we mention {{w|quines}}, which occur when lists like this end after two iterations, as "Yo, I'm MC Quine and I'm here to say/'Yo, I'm MC Quine and I'm here to say'!" {{unsigned|FourViolas}}

: That's not exactly a quine - a quine is a set of instructions which, when followed, recreates the instructions. If you take MC Quine's quote and write it out, you get just, "Yo, I'm MC Quine and I'm here to say", which doesn't contain the second repetition. To be a quine, you need to find some way that taking just the quoted part will automatically expand to the full statement plus the quote.

: A closer example of a quine: "Q: Pete and Re-Pete were sitting on a bridge. Pete fell off. Who was left? A: Repeat." If you take the answer "repeat" as an instruction, you would repeat the joke, recreating it completely. [[User:JoeNotCharles|JoeNotCharles]] ([[User talk:JoeNotCharles|talk]]) 15:19, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

This reminds me of Theodor Storm's "Schimmelreiter" ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rider_on_the_White_Horse "The Rider on the White Horse"]) which descends through three nested levels of narrators before it comes to the real story. --[[User:Ulm|ulm]] ([[User talk:Ulm|talk]]) 13:56, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

One connection between recursion and Ozymandias is the phrase "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" aka "Who watches the watchmen?" and the character in ''The Watchmen'' named Ozymandias. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.51|108.162.221.51]] 14:42, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Nested Shelleys? Maybe associaing Shelley with shells could be part of the joke? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.115|108.162.216.115]] 16:02, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

I keep trying to see 10, but I keep counting 11 syllables in each line with the exception of the last one. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.210|108.162.210.210]] 16:48, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
:You have to read traveler as trav'ler. [[User:Uptonc|Uptonc]] ([[User talk:Uptonc|talk]]) 16:57, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
:: Well, that's just wrong... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.81|108.162.216.81]] 17:14, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
::: Um... No it's not. There are [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/traveler?s=t two ways to pronounce it] (trav-uh-ler and trav-ler), kind of like toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.196|108.162.219.196]] 18:11, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
::::And you can pronounce "dog" as "cat". Language is funny like that. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.187|108.162.210.187]] 15:24, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
:::::Ok it's going to bug me otherwise, but, how? I mean, I figure it's probably one of those ghoti-fish things, but still. -Pennpenn
::::::Sorry it took so long to see your response and to respond to it. I meant that the symbols that make up "dog" are arbitrary, and could just as easily be pronounced as anything. Language itself is arbitrary and new words are made all the time, and pronunciations of old words are changing as well. Rules of grammar change constantly, to the ire of English teachers everywhere. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.205|108.162.210.205]] 19:18, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 23:07, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
::::::There's certain British accents (and probably elsewhere, but let's start here as an example) where a person saying a word such as "film" can only seem to say it as if it is "fillum". A kind-of-1.5-syllable-at-most word for most people (close to the word "firm", but the tongue used differently), but distinctly two for others (who ''can'' say their "L"s, but 'disengage', rather than let the word flow). (Actually, there's also accents that would make "firm" sound like "firrum", because of their 'harder' "R"s, but that's superfluous to this explanation.) So if you have a problem getting "Traveller" down to the two-syllable "Travler", you may have a similar sort of acquired pronunciation. See also "vehicle" ("vee-hic-al", "vere-cal"), which I know is predominant in certain of the US states. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.188|141.101.98.188]] 06:14, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

I think everyone's looking far too hard for something obscure and clever. :) Ozymandias is in the poem described as the "king of kings", which makes him recursively kingly. Hence, the recursion joke. (I went ahead added that to the explanation, it's my first contribution here so hopefully I didn't bypass any explainxkcd wiki house rules) [[User:Orinthe|Orinthe]] ([[User talk:Orinthe|talk]]) 06:24, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

When my brother and I were very young, and stayed overnight at my grandparents, my grandfather would often tell us the following bedtime story, with great seriousness, and many dramatic pauses:

"We were all seated around the camp fire, when the Captain said, to his faithful servant: 'Antonio, Antonio, tell unto us a story.' And Antonio began: "We were all seated around the camp fire, when the Captain said, to his faithful servant: 'Antonio, Antonio, tell unto us a story.' And Antonio began: "We were all seated around the camp fire, when the Captain said, to his faithful servant: 'Antonio, Antonio, tell unto us a story...

By that time we were often asleep. {{unsigned|Matthew-e-hackman}}

There is a old Chinese story with recursion like this that goes like:
<pre>从前有座山 Once upon a time, there was a mountain.
山上有座庙 Upon that mountain, there was a temple.
庙里有个老和尚和小和尚 In the temple was an old monk and a young monk
老和尚讲了一个故事说 The old monk told a story, saying
从前有座山 Once upon a time, there was a mountain.
山上有座庙 Upon that mountain, there was a temple.
庙里有个老和尚和小和尚 In the temple was an old monk and a young monk
老和尚讲了一个故事说 The old monk told a story, saying
....</pre>

[[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.59|162.158.255.59]] 07:00, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Not that you need another example of recursion, but this brings back very distinct personal memories. Whilst my father actually used to read books to me, at bedtimes, on occasion (for whatever unfathomable reason, lost on the mists of time) he would sometimes tell me a freestyle story that started "Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy 'Daddy, tell me a story!', and his daddy said, alright then. 'Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy "Daddy, tell me a story!", and his daddy said, alright then. "Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy 'Daddy, tell me a story!', and his daddy said, alright then. ..."'" But by that point (if not earlier, depending on how grumpy I was) I'd usually interupt him, so I suppose I never actually ''did'' find out what where this was might have been going. (And he forever asserted it ''was'' going somewhere.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.188|141.101.98.188]] 06:14, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

This comic's TOO META. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.135|108.162.210.135]] 21:23, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

In response to "You're/That's/This is crazy: "Crazy!? I was crazy once. They took me to a room and locked me up. There were rats in that room that gnawed at the walls. The rats drove me crazy! Crazy!? I was crazy once ... " and so on...[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.91|108.162.221.91]] 20:40, 1 September 2015 (UTC) Kickasstimus

The B in "Benoit B Mandelbrot" stands for "Benoit B Mandelbrot."
Also I think Randall got the idea from this SMBC:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2470
Which is incidentally based off of the aforementioned joke.
[[User:International Space Station|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station|talk]]) 04:58, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Not quite sure what the proper protocol is, but it feels like the comment/suggestion at the end of the first paragraph should be in this discussion box rather than making the article itself more confusing to read.
--[[User:Aid1043|Aid1043]] ([[User talk:Aid1043|talk]]) 19:18, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

:Agreed; moved it below:
:{{Quote|This comment shows a misunderstanding of the phrase "king of kings." It refers to a king who rules over other kings; what is today known as an emperor.|[[Special:Contributions/162.158.122.84|162.158.122.84]] 22:31, 3 June 2020 (UTC)}}
:– [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 01:17, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

1557: Ozymandias

2021-03-19T01:12:59Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Move comment from explanation to discussion.

{{comic
| number = 1557
| date = July 29, 2015
| title = Ozymandias
| image = ozymandias.png
| titletext = And on the pedestal these words appear: "And on the pedestal these words appear: "And on the pedestal these words appear: "And...
}}

==Explanation==
[[Ponytail]] is reciting the opening of "{{w|Ozymandias}}" by {{w|Percy Bysshe Shelley}} (see [[#Ozymandias text|text]] below). However, instead of continuing on with the poem, Ponytail is going through a recursion where the information is always being quoted from "a traveler from an antique land" who recounts what they were told by a similar traveler from another antique land. The title text once again plays with recursion, but instead of it being a string of travelers talking about travelers, it is a string of pedestals that are quoting pedestals. In the original poem, the text on the pedestal is itself recounted as part of the traveler's story, so there are already two levels of quotation, and the pedestal's inscription describes Ozymandias as the "king of kings", which, being itself a recursion, gives rise to the comic's joke.

The poem Ozymandias is about the last vestiges of a {{w|Ancient Egypt|once-great civilization}} that has since been lost to history. However, the poem itself, like the statue it describes,can be thought of as a pinnacle of achievement for its civilization- in this case, English civilization. So it is entirely possible that one day, after the fall of this civilization, the poem will fill the same role for it that the statue filled for Ozymandias' civilization, and would therefore be referenced by a traveler from an antique land who stumbled across it.

The fact that Ponytail is now telling [[Cueball]] the story of this recursion implies that she is yet another layer of this recursion and is herself "a traveler from an antique land."

The quotes are not nested properly, as they never end. So there is only the starting quotation mark (") for each quote. If she ever finishes there would be one closing quotation mark for each quote in the recursion at the end of her sentence. See [[859: (]].

The poem is a {{w|sonnet}} written in {{w|iambic pentameter}}, 10 syllables to a line (note that traveler should be read as trav'ler with only two syllables. Also note that it was originally written in British English where it was spelled with two l's as ''traveller''). The fragment quoted in the comic consist of the first line and two syllables of the second line of the original poem. The way Ponytail recites her version of the poem in the comic, each line continues to be iambic pentameters (which is the reason for the hyphenation of an-tique between 2nd and 3rd line). However the fourth and last line stops two syllables short, but would have continued as indicated by... Perhaps Randall did this to avoid finishing in mid word ("a trav-").

The title text quotes exactly one line, the 9th line or the first line of the second part of the poem, also stopping during the fourth repetition, although after just one word the fourth time, also with... to indicate that this goes on and on and...

The poem "Ozymandias" is mentioned on pages 169 and 170 of the book ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=mjThBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=Ozymandias+recursion&source=bl&ots=atqSnLbGZP&sig=cXeyE-vAQm9UzBh2k7O0ooHrQr0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAGoVChMI8_echsL_xgIVSZiACh009gnS#v=onepage&q=Ozymandias%20recursion&f=false Recursive Desire: Rereading Epic Tradition]'' by Jeremy M. Downes.

A similar joke was used in [[785: Open Mic Night]]

===Ozymandias text===
:I met a traveller from an antique land 
:Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone 
:Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, 
:Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, 
:And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, 
:Tell that its sculptor well those passions read 
:Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, 
:The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: 
:And on the pedestal these words appear: 
:'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: 
:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
:Nothing beside remains. Round the decay 
:Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare 
:The lone and level sands stretch far away."<ref name="Shelley1826">Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" in ''[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=MZY9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA100 Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley]'' (London: W. Benbow, 1826), 100.</ref> 
<references/>

==Transcript==
:[Ponytail, with her arms stretched out, is addressing Cueball.]
:Ponytail:
:I met a traveler from an antique land
:who said: "I met a traveler from an an-
:tique land, who said "I met a traveler from
:an antique land, who said "I met...

{{comic discussion}}
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471: Aversion Fads

2021-03-17T02:43:05Z

Yfmcpxpj: Integrate "furry" section into main explanation, and try to limit it to only the points relevant to the comic. Attempt a rewrite of the rest of the explanation.

{{comic
| number = 471
| date = September 3, 2008
| title = Aversion Fads
| image = aversion_fads.png
| titletext = Hey, are you friends with any hamsters? This kite needs a passenger.
}}

==Explanation==

A "{{w|Furry fandom|furry}}" is a person interested in {{w|anthropomorphic}} animal characters – fictional animal characters that, for example, walk and talk like humans. A common stereotype is that furries role-play their "fursona" ("furry" persona) by dressing up in animal costumes, as demonstrated by the furry in this comic. There are [https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_stereotype numerous other stereotypes] as well, often of a {{w|Sexual fetishism|sexual nature}}, so furries are frequently the target of criticism on the Internet.

In this comic, [[Cueball]] and his Cueball-like friend encounter a furry, and react negatively according to the stereotype. In response, [[Megan]] kindly invites the furry to help with her kite. Megan explains that, while she too thinks furries are strange, she opposes the hypocritical treatment they disproportionately receive from others who are likely just as strange, and therefore defends furries, given the opportunity.

The furry appreciates Megan's support, comparing it to {{w|Aesop}}'s fable of {{w|The Lion and the Mouse}}, in which a lion spares a mouse from being eaten; the lion later becomes caught in a trap, so the mouse repays the earlier favor by chewing through the cords of the trap to free the lion. This simile is meant as a genuine expression of gratitude and indebtedness from the furry, but the joke is that Megan rebukes this specific comparison, as she assumes the furry will be sexually aroused by the {{w|Zoophilia|animal}} {{w|Bondage (BDSM)|bondage}} in the story.

In the title text, Megan asks if the furry has any hamster friends as potential passengers for her kite. She likely means a {{w|Hamster|literal hamster}} – a rodent that would be small enough to fly on a kite. (This may be a reference to comic [[20: Ferret]], which also involves a small, flying mammal.) However, this being a furry, she could also mean a human with a hamster "fursona," although this would be too heavy to fly on a typical kite.{{Citation needed}}

==Transcript==
:[Two Cueball-like guys stand together as a young guy dressed up with small ears and a tail approaches.]
:Cueball: Oh God, a furry. Don't let it touch you.

:[The furry hears someone call out to him.]
:Off-screen: Hey, kid.

:[Megan is seen preparing a kite to be flown.]
:Megan: Forget those assholes. Come help me.

:[The furry begins to help Megan set up the kite.]
:Furry: Thanks. So you're cool with furries?

:[The two are now standing far appart the furry with the kite and the line going over to Megan.]
:Megan: Well, I think your fetish is weird as hell. It just bothers me how you're this designated Internet punching bag among people who are otherwise down with weird fetishes. So I stick up for you when I can.

:[The kite now successfully up in the air and Megan pulls the line with both hands moving backwards.]
:Furry: Well, thanks. I owe you one.
:Megan: It's no big deal.

:[Megan stops some distance from the fury holding the line with one hhand. The fury lift one hand up apologising.]
:Furry: No, this is like the lion and the mouse.
:Megan: ...Listen, can we pick a comparison less likely to turn you on?
:Furry: Sorry.

{{comic discussion}}

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128: dPain over dt

2021-03-16T23:27:41Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Put math markup back in, to see if it works.

{{comic
| number = 128
| date = July 14, 2006
| title = dPain over dt
| image = dPain_over_dt.png‎
| titletext = You laugh to keep from crying, you do math to keep from crying...
}}

==Explanation==

Another one of the math-love relationship comics, a mathematical depiction of pain as a {{w|differential equation}} is shown. It is hoped that ''dPain/dt'', or the rate of pain (in this case, shrinking), decreases quickly so that the pain will vanish quickly. He's hoping the value for ''d'' will not be larger than a few days or some weeks. Assuming that ''How much she's still in my life'' is a constant [Megan], [http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=dP%2Fdt+%3D+%28-k1*P%2BG%29*%281%2F%281%2Bexp%28-%28t-k2%29%2Fd%29%29%29 solving the differential equation] leads to the following solution (with unknown ''c1''):
: <math> Pain(t) = {c_1 \left(e^{k_2/d} + e^{t/d}\right)}^{-dk_1} + \frac{[\text{Megan}]}{k_1}</math>

If ''k1'' was positive or if ''k2'' was a large value, the value of ''dPain/dt'' would approach zero. Ideally, ''k1'' would be "How much she's in my life"/''Pain'' (we assume both these values are positive), while ''k2'' would ideally be extremely large. Either of these scenarios approach what would be a situation where the value of ''dPain/dt'' is close to zero. But we don't know the meaning of ''k1'' or ''k2''; these variables are just unpredictable.

In the title text, [[Randall]] changes the famous "laugh to keep from crying" statement to math.

==Transcript==
:dPain/dt = (-k1 Pain + [Image of Megan]) (1/(1 + e ^ -(t-k2)/d))
:''k''1=?
:''k''2=?
:[Image of Megan]=How much she's still in my life
:Please let ''d'' only be a few days... or weeks
:I guess there's some kind of a cutoff after years, where it stops mattering and we can be friends. Do I want that?
:Is ''k''1 positive? Is ''k''2 large?
:Will I ever stop feeling like this?

{{comic discussion}}
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2021-03-15T19:38:53Z

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* [[explain xkcd:Community portal]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/All]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous]]
|-
| '''Domain'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|-
| '''URL'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVER}}
|-
| '''Version'''
| <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></code>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
|
* [[Special:Version]] – full version information
|-
| '''Statistics'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:Statistics]] – site statistics
|-
| '''Messages'''
| <pre>{{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}}
{{int:xkcd-com}}
{{int:xkcd.com-url}}
{{int:xkcdstore}}
{{int:xkcdstore-url}}</pre>
| {{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}} {{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}} {{int:xkcd-com}} {{int:xkcd.com-url}} {{int:xkcdstore}} {{int:xkcdstore-url}}
|
* [[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=8
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}
* [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
* [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]]
* [[MediaWiki:Tagline]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd-com]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url]]
|-
| '''CSS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.css]]
|-
| '''JS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.js]]
|-
! colspan="4" | Pages
|-
| '''Edits'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}
|
* [[Special:RecentChanges]] – recent edits
|-
| '''Pages'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
|
* [[Special:AllPages]] – all pages
* [[Special:NewPages]] – recently-created pages
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] – uncategorized pages
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] – pages that link to nothing
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] – pages to which nothing links
** [[:Category:Pages to delete]] – pages marked for deletion
* [[Special:WantedPages]] – linked non-existent pages
* [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – pages protected from creation
* [[Special:ProtectedPages]] – pages protected from editing
* [[Special:PrefixIndex]] – query sub-pages
* [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] – query linked pages
* [[Special:SpecialPages]] – special pages
* [[Special:Watchlist]] – watched pages
* [[Special:Search]] – search
|-
| '''Files'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=6
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}
* [[Special:ListFiles]] – query all files
* [[Special:NewFiles]] – recently-created files
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]] – uncategorized files
* [[Special:UnusedFiles]] – files to which nothing links
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] – linked non-existent files
|-
| '''Categories'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=14
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}
* [[Special:Categories]] – all categories
** [[:Category:Root category]] – root category
** [[:Category:Meta]] – meta category
** [[:Category:explain xkcd]] – site category
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] – uncategorized categories
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] – categories used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] – used non-existent categories
* [[Special:TrackingCategories]] – error categories, etc.
|-
| '''Templates'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=10
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}
* [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]] – uncategorized templates
* [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] – templates used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]] – used non-existent templates
|-
| '''Redirects'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:ListRedirects]] – all redirects
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – redirects to nothing
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – redirects to redirects
|-
! colspan="4" | Users
|-
| '''Users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers]] – query all users
* [[Special:Contributions]] – query user contributions
* [[Special:UserRights]] – query user groups/permissions
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] – group permissions
* [[:Category:Spamfighter]] – users designated as spam fighters
|-
| '''Bureaucrats'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] – query all bureaucrats
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bureaucrat
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
|-
| '''Administrators'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
{{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] – query all administrators
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
|-
| '''Bots'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] – query all bots
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bot
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}
|-
| '''Active users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] – query all active users
|}

= This page =

* [[Special:MyPage]]
** [[User:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Yfmcpxpj
*** [[Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
**** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=User:Yfmcpxpj
**** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
***** {{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

== Subpages ==
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=User:Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Subpages
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki></code>
| {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
|}

=== CSS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.css]]

=== JS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.js]]

== Statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value
|-
| '''ID'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONID}}
|-
| '''User'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|-
| '''Size (bytes)'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONSIZE}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONSIZE}}
|-
| '''Timestamp'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| '''Year'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
| '''Month''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
|-
| '''Date''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
|}

= This user =
* [[Special:MyTalk]]
** [[User talk:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Yfmcpxpj
* [[Special:Contributions/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions?target=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}
* [[Special:UserRights/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights?user=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}

= Reference =

== Links ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
! colspan="3" | Internal links
|-
| Enclose the page name between double square brackets.
| <code><nowiki>[[1]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1]]
|-
| Provide an optional alternate title after a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[1|title]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
|-
| To prevent category inclusion, prefix with a colon.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics]]
|-
| To hide the namespace, append a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics|]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics|Comics]]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to internal pages
|-
| Bare URL, optionally specifying the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter.
| <pre>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no</pre>
| https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no
|-
| Enclose a protocol-relative or canonical URL between square brackets,
and provide an optional alternate title after a space.
| <pre>[//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function, bare, or between square brackets
with an optional alternate title, with optional query parameters.
| <pre>{{canonicalurl:1}}
{{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}}
[{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| {{canonicalurl:1}} {{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}} [{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to broken internal pages
|-
| colspan="3" | What if internal links are broken to pages ending with question marks or with special characters in the name? (Indeed, ''[[what if?]]'') Instead, the page simply says, "No input file specified." In that case, you can use specific forms of external links to reach the page.
|-
| Specify the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter in a link.
| <code><nowiki>[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function with a query parameter such as <code>redirect=no</code>.
| <code><nowiki>[{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function with a query parameter
such as <code>redirect=no</code> in a protocol-relative URL.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
! colspan="3" | Special links
|-
| Link to a '''MediaWiki''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[mw:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></code>
| [[mw:MediaWiki]]
|-
| Link to a '''template''', formatted in wiki syntax
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tl|tl]]|tl}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
| {{tl|tl}}
{{template|template}}
|-
| Link to a comic's '''explanation'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{explain|1}}
{{explain|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to the '''most recent''' comic's explanation
| <code>{{tl|most recent comic}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{tl|LATESTCOMIC}}]]</code>
| {{most recent comic}}
[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]
|-
| Link to a '''diff'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}</code>
| {{diff|1}} {{diff|1|first diff}} {{diff|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}
|-
| '''Plain link'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:link|link]]<nowiki>|https://example.com|example link}}</nowiki></code>
| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to a comic '''transcript''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
|-
| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
{{what if|1|Relativistic Baseball}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
| <code>{{tl|w}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:en:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[w:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{w}} {{w|xkcd}} {{w|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}} [[Wikipedia:xkcd]] [[Wikipedia:xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia]] [[Wikipedia:en:xkcd]] [[w:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wiktionary''' definition
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wiktionary:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[wikt:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| {{Wiktionary|malamanteau}} {{Wiktionary|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}} [[Wiktionary:malamanteau]] [[wikt:malamanteau]]
|-
| Link to a '''RationalWiki''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
|-
| Link to an '''IMDb''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[IMDb:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IMDb:A New Hope]] [[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]] [[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]] [[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]] [[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]
|-
| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[TVtropes:AssPull]]</nowiki></code>
| {{tvtropes|AssPull}} {{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}} [[TVtropes:AssPull]]
|-
| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Urbandict:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}} [[Urbandict:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wookieepedia''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wikia''' project and article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Mozilla Developer Network''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wayback Machine/Internet Archive''' page history
| <code><nowiki>[[IArchive:xkcd.com]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IArchive:xkcd.com]]
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Google:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Cache:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| Some text.{{Lookup|xkcd}} [[Google:xkcd]] [[Cache:xkcd]] [[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]
|}

== Annotations ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
|-
| Citation needed
| <code>Text needing citation.{{tl|Citation needed}}</code>
| Text needing citation.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| Dubious
| <code>Dubious text.{{tl|Dubious}}</code>
| Dubious text.{{Dubious}}
|-
| NSFW
| <code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].</nowiki>{{tl|NSFW}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].{{</nowiki>[[Template:NSFW|NSFW]]|reason}}</code>
| [https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW}}
[https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW|reason}}
|-
| Note
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:note|note]]|some note}}</code>
| {{note|some note}}
|-
| Quote
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author|source}}</code>
| {{Quote|text}}{{Quote|text|author}}{{Quote|text|author|source}}
|-
| Byline
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}</code>
| {{byline|author 1}} {{byline|author 1|author 2}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}
|-
| Done
| <code>{{tl|done}}</code>
| {{done}}
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User talk:Beanie

2021-03-12T03:36:24Z

Yfmcpxpj: Title text in transcript

{{Welcome|Beanie}} — [[User:Sqrt-1|The 𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭]] [[User talk:Sqrt-1|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1|stalk]] 16:38, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

== Adding the title text to the transcript ==

Hi,
I am curious. What is your motivation for this monster project to add the title text to more than 2400 comics? It is always already found in the page. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 13:40, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
:The transcript includes the whole comic, so I believe it should include the title text. [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 14:08, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
:Also, I don't have a whole lot else to do. [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 14:30, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi there Beanie, thanks for all your contributions to explain xkcd! Just wanted to mention a couple things before you continue your ambitious project of adding the title text to all the transcripts, in case this saves you a bit of effort.
* ''Currently'', I believe the site policy is to ''not'' include the title text in the transcript, as mentioned in the [[explain xkcd:Editor FAQ#What is the format of the transcript section?|Editor FAQ]].
* There was recently a brief discussion about it in the [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Add title text and heading to transcript section|community portal]]. As I understand it, the rationale for the ''transcript'' is to include a ''textual'' representation of the ''graphical'' text in the comic (so that it can be searched, for example); but the ''title text'' is already represented textually (below the comic image), so for this purpose it would be redundant in the transcript, and I believe that's the reasoning behind the current policy.
I, for one, certainly appreciate the title text that [[Randall]] adds to the comics; but FWIW, even according to Randall himself in his [https://youtu.be/z_zwyJ6IYR0?t=2231 talk at Dartmouth College], the joke in the title text should never be critical to the main joke in the comic – i.e. the comic should work on its own, even if the title text didn't exist. I'm not saying you ''can't'' add the title text to the transcript, nor that you ''shouldn't'' – for instance, as you mentioned, maybe the title text ''ought'' to be considered as part of the comic, and so maybe it ''should'' be included in the transcript. But just letting you know that the current policy is to omit it, so you might want to discuss it in the community portal and make sure everyone's on-board before putting in a bunch of effort on it, only to have someone else come along and undo all your hard work. Cheers, and thanks again for all your contributions to the site! – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 03:36, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1

2021-02-28T01:30:34Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanations */ Remove indentations left over from bulleted lists.

{{comic
| number = 819
| date = November 15, 2010
| title = Five-Minute Comics: Part 1
| image = five minute comics part 1.png
| titletext = The wolves thin the RAID arrays, removing the slowest and weakest disks to keep the average seek speed high.
}}

This is the first of three "five-minute comics" Randall posted during a week in November 2010. The introduction to the comic explains everything you need to know about the circumstances behind it.

Randall obviously made more than three of these five minutes comics, and one of them was published later, for a short period of time by a mistake, but an android xkcd browser picked it up while it was on-line and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Five-minute comics|Five-minute comics]] series:
*[[819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1]]
*[[820: Five-Minute Comics: Part 2]]
*[[821: Five-Minute Comics: Part 3]]
*[[Five-Minute Comics: Part 4]]

==Explanations==
====Comic #1====
In astronomy, an "approach" is when two bodies come abnormally close to one another, but not close enough to crash. {{w|Jupiter}}, as most probably know, is the fifth planet in our solar system. Its approach to Earth in September 2010 was the closest seen in many years - in fact, the next time it will come that close will be in 2022. In the comic, this is indicated by Jupiter hovering right above Earth and talking to the characters.
Of course, Jupiter is not only planet-sized, but is ''enormous'' compared to Earth; in fact, Earth would fit quite comfortably into the {{w|Atmosphere of Jupiter#Great Red Spot|red spot}} of Jupiter.
Gravitational slingshots are used by deep-space probes to gain speed by approaching a planet and then leaving that planet; the gravity fields of the sun and the planet changes the trajectory of the probe, and the end result is an extremely fuel-efficient way of gaining speed during space travel. Jupiter is commonly used for this purpose because it's the most massive planet in our solar system.

====Comic #2====
The comic in the middle left features the lyrics to the Johnny Cash song {{w|A Boy Named Sue}}, but with "Sue" replaced with "Trig." Inexplicably, [http://wiki.name.com/en/Trig Trig] is a name that people actually give their children. The most notable example in the US - and probably the inspiration for Randall drawing this comic - is Trig Palin, the son of Alaskan politician Sarah Palin. Trig is also a widely accepted abbreviation for the mathematical field of {{w|trigonometry}}, and it sounds similar to "twig," so one can imagine how a person with such a name might be ridiculed.

====Comic #3====
A child getting trapped in a well is an alien experience to some parts of the Western world, but it's quite a serious problem in places where wells are commonplace. Here, though, rather than attempt to rescue the little girl, Cueball instead tries to grant her wish of owning a pony before her imminent demise; a pony is a stereotypical thing for a little girl to want. Of course, since ponies don't fit into wells too easily, he has to stuff it in, which appears to be quite painful for the pony.

====Comic #4====
The server room of a large datacenter is an unusual place to return "back to nature", to say the least. {{w|Reintroduction}} refers to the process of taking a population of animals raised in captivity and bringing them back to the wild; this is a delicate process, as being raised in captivity affects the natural development of skills the animal needs to survive. In fact, Wikipedia has a page specifically about the challenges of {{w|wolf reintroduction}}.
Needless to say, reintroducing wolves to a server room is neither a good idea nor OSHA-approved.
Cueball may also be referencing a computer program named "reintroduction" or something similar when he says "We started a reintroduction program"
The title-text refers to the wolves thinning the RAID array. A {{w|RAID|RAID array}} is a way of spreading data redundantly across multiple hard drives, such that 100% of the data is still recoverable if some number of drives go down. This number can be set arbitrarily, as long as you have at least one more disk than the number you want, but it reduces your total storage space accordingly. The seek speed of a drive is how fast it can find a specific point of data on its platter; thus, the wolves are essentially killing the slowest drives, implementing a kind of natural selection to "evolve" the drives to be faster.
"Thinning the RAID array" is a play on words. In the ecological sense, it refers to eliminating some members of the population to allow the remaining ones to more successfully thrive. In the datacenter sense, "thin provisioning" refers to the practice of marking an intent to use disk storage for a specific purpose, but allowing it to be used for something else until actually needed (as opposed to "thick provisioning" which immediately reserves the storage space, even if unused).

====Comic #5====
Directly below the previous comic, Cueball is telling a "yo mama" joke. Such jokes are usually told in jest, and aren't really targeted at a particular person's mother; however, in this case, Cueball ''was'' attempting to make an honest observation about the listener's mother, and when he discovers his mistake, he realizes that she is, in fact, quite a nice person. Alternatively, Cueball is insulting the femininity of the listener's mother, and the masculinity of the listener's father.

====Comic #6====
{{w|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}} wrote an opera called ''{{w|The Magic Flute}}'', though the comic seems to attribute it to {{w|Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach}}. {{w|Richard Wagner}} wrote a series of operas called {{w|Der Ring des Nibelungen}}, or, more commonly, the ring cycle. Here, Randall interprets the ring cycle as some kind of motorcycle, while the teleporting magic flute comes from video games: in both ''The Legend of Zelda'' and ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', the player can obtain a magic flute item that has teleportation powers. In the Magic Tree House series, the magic flute is an actual magical flute that does magic when played, although it does not teleport people.
The caption implies that even Randall is not sure what meaning this comic has.
However, as he has made a mash up of Mozart, Bach and Wagner - this must be intentional - so ''he'' does not attribute the Magic Flute to Bach!
Also, due to the anachronistic nature of this comic, it could imply a pun, where they are going "Bach to the future."

====Comic #7====
This comic shows how people rate the "hotness" of girls. Glamour magazines have desensitized many people to photo-edited models with large amounts of make-up, so the model gets a "meh" reaction. The girl in biology class, by contrast, is not only "real" by comparison, but is actually a viable choice for dating, so she is given a 2 star rating. If the same girl from bio class is wearing your shirt, that usually means you've had sex the night before, and she spent the night at your apartment, hence the need to get dressed in one of your shirts; this possibility earns the highest rating, 4 stars.
Here it starts taking a turn for the worse. If wearing one of ''your'' shirts means she spent the night with ''you'', logically, wearing one of your ''mom's'' shirts means she spent the night with ''your mom''. This earns a "Wat!" reaction.
Finally, human skin is not generally designed to detach from its owner{{Citation needed|reason=Prove it|date=November 2015}}. If the girl from your bio class is wearing your mom's skin like a suit, it means she probably murdered your mom and skinned her. This is a reference to serial killer {{w|Ed Gein}}, who (among other things) made suits out of the skin of some of his victims. To this, Cueball can only scream.

==Transcript==
Because of a family illness, instead of regular comics, this week I'll be sharing some strips that I drew as part of a game I played with friends. Each comic had to be written and drawn in five minutes. -- Randall

====Comic #1====
:[Cueball and Megan stand facing each other.]
:Cueball: Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in decades.

:[Cueball points behind Megan, and she turns around.]
:Cueball: In fact, here it comes now!

:[Jupiter, about the size of the characters' heads, hovers into the frame at about head-height.]
:Jupiter: Hey, guys.

:[Jupiter continues to hover through the frame as the characters watch it go.]
:Jupiter: Anyone need a gravitational slingshot?
:Megan: No, I'm good.
:Jupiter: Aight.

====Comic #2====
:[Cueball sits on a box, playing a guitar.]
:Cueball: ...Now I don't blame him 'cause he ran and hid,
:Cueball: but the meanest thing that he ever did
:Cueball: was before he left, he went and named me "Trig."

====Comic #3====
:[Cueball looks down a well.]
:Cueball: Oh God, a little girl is trapped down this well!

:[Cueball runs off screen.]

:[Cueball returns, leading a pony.]
:Cueball: It's okay, we got you that pony you always wanted!

:[Cueball tries to cram the pony down the well with the aid of a large stick.]
:Cueball: Get... in... there...
:Cueball: Ugh!

====Comic #4====
:[Cueball and Megan stand in a server room. ]
:Cueball: I like to get back to nature by coming out here to the server room.
:Cueball: The warmth, the whirr of the drives, the drone of the fans, the howl of the wolves...
:Megan: Wolves?
:Cueball: Yeah, we started a reintroduction program.
:Wolf: Awoooooo

====Comic #5====
:[Cueball stands by himself in the frame.]
:Cueball: Yo momma's so masculine that she... oh, wait, that's your dad.
:Cueball: Is your mom the lady over by the door? Aww, she looks nice!

====Comic #6====
:[Cueball runs toward another man who is wearing a powdered wig, holding a gun in one hand, and a flute in the other. Behind him, someone is chasing him on a motorcycle.]
:Cueball: Bach, activate the magic flute and teleport us home! Wagner's right behind me on his Ring Cycle!

:Why did I ''draw'' this?

====Comic #7====
:Hotness Ratings:
:[A close up of a girl with wavy hair.]
:Incredibly made-up girl on magazine cover.
:Girl: Airbrush!
:[Inset of Cueball: "Meh."]

:[An average girl.]
:Girl in your bio class.
:[Inset of Cueball: "Two stars."]

:[Girl with mussed hair in over-sized men's shirt.]
:Girl in your bio class wearing one of your shirts.
:Girl: Want some breakfast?
:[Cueball: "Four stars."]

:[Girl with another sort of shirt speaking to an older lady.]
:Girl in your bio class wearing one of your mom's shirts.
:Girl: Thanks for the great night.
:[Cueball: "Wat!"]

:[Creepy-looking girl.]
:Girl in your bio class wearing your mom's skin like a suit.
:Girl: Give Mommy a hug!
:[Cueball, screaming: "AAAAAAAA"]

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Five-minute comics| 01]]
[[Category:Comics sharing name|Five-minute comics]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Physics]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Your Mom]]
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]

819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1

2021-02-28T01:27:25Z

Yfmcpxpj: Undo revision 206879 by 162.158.107.213 (talk) – Not necessorily nude – xkcd characters are normally drawn as stick figures.

{{comic
| number = 819
| date = November 15, 2010
| title = Five-Minute Comics: Part 1
| image = five minute comics part 1.png
| titletext = The wolves thin the RAID arrays, removing the slowest and weakest disks to keep the average seek speed high.
}}

This is the first of three "five-minute comics" Randall posted during a week in November 2010. The introduction to the comic explains everything you need to know about the circumstances behind it.

Randall obviously made more than three of these five minutes comics, and one of them was published later, for a short period of time by a mistake, but an android xkcd browser picked it up while it was on-line and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Five-minute comics|Five-minute comics]] series:
*[[819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1]]
*[[820: Five-Minute Comics: Part 2]]
*[[821: Five-Minute Comics: Part 3]]
*[[Five-Minute Comics: Part 4]]

==Explanations==
====Comic #1====
In astronomy, an "approach" is when two bodies come abnormally close to one another, but not close enough to crash. {{w|Jupiter}}, as most probably know, is the fifth planet in our solar system. Its approach to Earth in September 2010 was the closest seen in many years - in fact, the next time it will come that close will be in 2022. In the comic, this is indicated by Jupiter hovering right above Earth and talking to the characters.
:Of course, Jupiter is not only planet-sized, but is ''enormous'' compared to Earth; in fact, Earth would fit quite comfortably into the {{w|Atmosphere of Jupiter#Great Red Spot|red spot}} of Jupiter.
:Gravitational slingshots are used by deep-space probes to gain speed by approaching a planet and then leaving that planet; the gravity fields of the sun and the planet changes the trajectory of the probe, and the end result is an extremely fuel-efficient way of gaining speed during space travel. Jupiter is commonly used for this purpose because it's the most massive planet in our solar system.

====Comic #2====
The comic in the middle left features the lyrics to the Johnny Cash song {{w|A Boy Named Sue}}, but with "Sue" replaced with "Trig." Inexplicably, [http://wiki.name.com/en/Trig Trig] is a name that people actually give their children. The most notable example in the US - and probably the inspiration for Randall drawing this comic - is Trig Palin, the son of Alaskan politician Sarah Palin. Trig is also a widely accepted abbreviation for the mathematical field of {{w|trigonometry}}, and it sounds similar to "twig," so one can imagine how a person with such a name might be ridiculed.

====Comic #3====
A child getting trapped in a well is an alien experience to some parts of the Western world, but it's quite a serious problem in places where wells are commonplace. Here, though, rather than attempt to rescue the little girl, Cueball instead tries to grant her wish of owning a pony before her imminent demise; a pony is a stereotypical thing for a little girl to want. Of course, since ponies don't fit into wells too easily, he has to stuff it in, which appears to be quite painful for the pony.

====Comic #4====
The server room of a large datacenter is an unusual place to return "back to nature", to say the least. {{w|Reintroduction}} refers to the process of taking a population of animals raised in captivity and bringing them back to the wild; this is a delicate process, as being raised in captivity affects the natural development of skills the animal needs to survive. In fact, Wikipedia has a page specifically about the challenges of {{w|wolf reintroduction}}.
:Needless to say, reintroducing wolves to a server room is neither a good idea nor OSHA-approved.
:Cueball may also be referencing a computer program named "reintroduction" or something similar when he says "We started a reintroduction program"
:The title-text refers to the wolves thinning the RAID array. A {{w|RAID|RAID array}} is a way of spreading data redundantly across multiple hard drives, such that 100% of the data is still recoverable if some number of drives go down. This number can be set arbitrarily, as long as you have at least one more disk than the number you want, but it reduces your total storage space accordingly. The seek speed of a drive is how fast it can find a specific point of data on its platter; thus, the wolves are essentially killing the slowest drives, implementing a kind of natural selection to "evolve" the drives to be faster.
:"Thinning the RAID array" is a play on words. In the ecological sense, it refers to eliminating some members of the population to allow the remaining ones to more successfully thrive. In the datacenter sense, "thin provisioning" refers to the practice of marking an intent to use disk storage for a specific purpose, but allowing it to be used for something else until actually needed (as opposed to "thick provisioning" which immediately reserves the storage space, even if unused).

====Comic #5====
Directly below the previous comic, Cueball is telling a "yo mama" joke. Such jokes are usually told in jest, and aren't really targeted at a particular person's mother; however, in this case, Cueball ''was'' attempting to make an honest observation about the listener's mother, and when he discovers his mistake, he realizes that she is, in fact, quite a nice person. Alternatively, Cueball is insulting the femininity of the listener's mother, and the masculinity of the listener's father.

====Comic #6====
{{w|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}} wrote an opera called ''{{w|The Magic Flute}}'', though the comic seems to attribute it to {{w|Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach}}. {{w|Richard Wagner}} wrote a series of operas called {{w|Der Ring des Nibelungen}}, or, more commonly, the ring cycle. Here, Randall interprets the ring cycle as some kind of motorcycle, while the teleporting magic flute comes from video games: in both ''The Legend of Zelda'' and ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', the player can obtain a magic flute item that has teleportation powers. In the Magic Tree House series, the magic flute is an actual magical flute that does magic when played, although it does not teleport people.
:The caption implies that even Randall is not sure what meaning this comic has.
:However, as he has made a mash up of Mozart, Bach and Wagner - this must be intentional - so ''he'' does not attribute the Magic Flute to Bach!
:Also, due to the anachronistic nature of this comic, it could imply a pun, where they are going "Bach to the future."

====Comic #7====
This comic shows how people rate the "hotness" of girls. Glamour magazines have desensitized many people to photo-edited models with large amounts of make-up, so the model gets a "meh" reaction. The girl in biology class, by contrast, is not only "real" by comparison, but is actually a viable choice for dating, so she is given a 2 star rating. If the same girl from bio class is wearing your shirt, that usually means you've had sex the night before, and she spent the night at your apartment, hence the need to get dressed in one of your shirts; this possibility earns the highest rating, 4 stars.
:Here it starts taking a turn for the worse. If wearing one of ''your'' shirts means she spent the night with ''you'', logically, wearing one of your ''mom's'' shirts means she spent the night with ''your mom''. This earns a "Wat!" reaction.
:Finally, human skin is not generally designed to detach from its owner{{Citation needed|reason=Prove it|date=November 2015}}. If the girl from your bio class is wearing your mom's skin like a suit, it means she probably murdered your mom and skinned her. This is a reference to serial killer {{w|Ed Gein}}, who (among other things) made suits out of the skin of some of his victims. To this, Cueball can only scream.

==Transcript==
Because of a family illness, instead of regular comics, this week I'll be sharing some strips that I drew as part of a game I played with friends. Each comic had to be written and drawn in five minutes. -- Randall

====Comic #1====
:[Cueball and Megan stand facing each other.]
:Cueball: Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in decades.

:[Cueball points behind Megan, and she turns around.]
:Cueball: In fact, here it comes now!

:[Jupiter, about the size of the characters' heads, hovers into the frame at about head-height.]
:Jupiter: Hey, guys.

:[Jupiter continues to hover through the frame as the characters watch it go.]
:Jupiter: Anyone need a gravitational slingshot?
:Megan: No, I'm good.
:Jupiter: Aight.

====Comic #2====
:[Cueball sits on a box, playing a guitar.]
:Cueball: ...Now I don't blame him 'cause he ran and hid,
:Cueball: but the meanest thing that he ever did
:Cueball: was before he left, he went and named me "Trig."

====Comic #3====
:[Cueball looks down a well.]
:Cueball: Oh God, a little girl is trapped down this well!

:[Cueball runs off screen.]

:[Cueball returns, leading a pony.]
:Cueball: It's okay, we got you that pony you always wanted!

:[Cueball tries to cram the pony down the well with the aid of a large stick.]
:Cueball: Get... in... there...
:Cueball: Ugh!

====Comic #4====
:[Cueball and Megan stand in a server room. ]
:Cueball: I like to get back to nature by coming out here to the server room.
:Cueball: The warmth, the whirr of the drives, the drone of the fans, the howl of the wolves...
:Megan: Wolves?
:Cueball: Yeah, we started a reintroduction program.
:Wolf: Awoooooo

====Comic #5====
:[Cueball stands by himself in the frame.]
:Cueball: Yo momma's so masculine that she... oh, wait, that's your dad.
:Cueball: Is your mom the lady over by the door? Aww, she looks nice!

====Comic #6====
:[Cueball runs toward another man who is wearing a powdered wig, holding a gun in one hand, and a flute in the other. Behind him, someone is chasing him on a motorcycle.]
:Cueball: Bach, activate the magic flute and teleport us home! Wagner's right behind me on his Ring Cycle!

:Why did I ''draw'' this?

====Comic #7====
:Hotness Ratings:
:[A close up of a girl with wavy hair.]
:Incredibly made-up girl on magazine cover.
:Girl: Airbrush!
:[Inset of Cueball: "Meh."]

:[An average girl.]
:Girl in your bio class.
:[Inset of Cueball: "Two stars."]

:[Girl with mussed hair in over-sized men's shirt.]
:Girl in your bio class wearing one of your shirts.
:Girl: Want some breakfast?
:[Cueball: "Four stars."]

:[Girl with another sort of shirt speaking to an older lady.]
:Girl in your bio class wearing one of your mom's shirts.
:Girl: Thanks for the great night.
:[Cueball: "Wat!"]

:[Creepy-looking girl.]
:Girl in your bio class wearing your mom's skin like a suit.
:Girl: Give Mommy a hug!
:[Cueball, screaming: "AAAAAAAA"]

{{comic discussion}}

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1939: 2016 Election Map

2021-02-26T23:19:42Z

Yfmcpxpj: Re-add "Explanation" heading.

{{comic
| number = 1939
| date = January 8, 2018
| title = 2016 Election Map
| image = 2016_election_map.png
| titletext = I like the idea of cartograms (distorted population maps), but I feel like in practice they often end up being the worst of both worlds—not great for showing geography OR counting people. And on top of that, they have all the problems of a chloro... chorophl... chloropet... map with areas colored in.
}}

*A [https://xkcd.com/1939/large/ larger version] of this image can be found by clicking the image at xkcd.com - the comic's page can also be accessed by clicking on the comic number above.

==Explanation==
The United States elects its president not directly by popular vote but by an Electoral College composed of a number of electors, partially proportional to population, from each state. Presently, a "winner-take-all" system is used in most states: the winner of the popular vote in each state receives all of the electoral votes for that state. Though, strictly speaking, the electors are not required to cast their ballots according to this system, many states impose penalties on them if they don't. Technically, the popular vote in each state is to elect a slate of electors who in turn elect the President. Many Republicans tend to claim that Trump had a strong victory, and show maps filled with large, red counties. These maps look even redder than the state maps, so they make it look like Trump won a large nationwide victory. However, as Randall points, out, those maps are misleading, and using them to promote your candidate is a bit disingenuous.

The news media commonly use maps to represent the progress or results of the election. Because of this winner-take-all system, states won by the Democratic candidate are typically portrayed in one color (blue is currently in wide use), and states won by the Republican candidate in another (currently red). In recent years, this distinction has gone far beyond electoral maps, and states are often referred to as "blue" or "red" by their political leaning in many contexts.

Randall seems to be making a point on the shortcomings of both maps, by showing how different the actual vote was from the red and blue choropleth maps. He mentions how strange cartograms look, and by creating this map he hopes that it will convey the actual vote by geography well, while keeping the normal geographic boundaries.

The title text repeatedly attempts and fails to spell the term {{w|choropleth map}}, a map that uses shading or colors to show information about a geographic area, such as a 'normal' election map that shows districts/states colored to the party that won them. In geography classes, "choropleth" is known as a chronically misspelled and mispronounced word. This is because the "choro" syllable sounds very similar to the Greek prefix "chloro", meaning "green in color" or "containing chlorine". The similar "pl" consonant cluster in the second syllable adds to this, resulting in {{w|Metathesis (linguistics)|metathesis}}. A choropleth map has many shortcomings. For example, many large Western states have small populations and thus don't make much difference to the electoral vote count, but look like a broad swath of red or blue on the map. The map overall can have the appearance of being very red or very blue, suggesting to the eye an overwhelming victory, when in fact the election can be extremely close. Donald Trump has [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/heres-the-electoral-map-president-trump-gave-reporters.html repeatedly] [https://twitter.com/TreyYingst/status/862669407868391424/photo/1 emphasized] how red the map appears, especially when broken down by county, even though he actually lost the popular vote. In a speech on June 21, 2017, he said, "And those maps, those electoral maps, they were all red. Beautiful red."

In this cartoon, [[Randall]] seems to be pointing out the shortcomings of the choropleth map (or perhaps this overall red-state/blue-state mentality). His map shows more clearly the small impact of the low-population states, as well as how combination of the winner-take-all system with the typical election maps fails to show the sometimes large number of opposition votes in a given state. This map also combines all third-party or independent candidate into one type of marker (green), making it clear that a substantial number of votes went to these candidates.
A {{w|cartogram}}, also referenced in the title text, is a map that changes the size, and sometimes shape, of a region based on population or some other metric. Like a choropleth, these maps also have many shortcomings, the most obvious being the distortion required for the maps to work sometimes making it difficult to tell what and where the region actually is. Many versions of cartograms use squares to represent each region, with the size of the square corresponding to the metric measured. Often, it's easier to find specific places on these square maps.

A similar map was actually used during the 2016 election [https://ig.ft.com/us-elections/results by the Financial Times] ([https://www.ft.com/content/3685bf9e-a4cc-11e6-8b69-02899e8bd9d1 discussed here]). It made similar use of colorless states for geographic information and color in proportion to population for electoral information. However, the FT map is based on the electoral college, not the popular vote. It in turn is similar to a 2013 map used [https://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/interactive/2013/sep/06/australian-election-results-map by The Guardian] for the 2013 Australian election ([https://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/2013/sep/06/better-election-results-map discussed here]). Other compromise maps of geographic and electoral information exist, such as maps of geographically accurate but re-scaled states: a 2016 election example [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElectorScaledUS2016.svg is here], indirectly inspired by [https://www.vox.com/2015/8/19/9178979/united-states-population a similar vox.com map].

With a stick figure representing 250,000 votes, Trump would have exactly 251.918544 stick figures and Clinton would have exactly 263.37844 stick figures according to the [https://splinternews.com/here-is-the-final-popular-vote-count-of-the-2016-electi-1793864349 final results]. The map shows 252 Trump stick figures and 264 Clinton stick figures, meaning Randall used ceiling rounding instead of conventional rounding, which would have shown Clinton with one fewer stick figure.

===Table===
{| class = "wikitable sortable"
!State
!Red
!Blue
!Green
!Total
|-
| {{w|Alabama}} || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| || align="right"| 8
|-
| {{w|Alaska}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| || align="right"| 1
|-
| {{w|Arizona}} || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 10
|-
| {{w|Arkansas}} || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 5
|-
| {{w|California}} || align="right"| 18 || align="right"| 35 || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 58
|-
| {{w|Colorado}} || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 10
|-
| {{w|Connecticut}} || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| || align="right"| 5
|-
| {{w|Delaware}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| || align="right"| 4
|-
| {{w|Florida}} || align="right"| 19 || align="right"| 18 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 38
|-
| {{w|Georgia (U.S. state|Georgia}} || align="right"| 8 || align="right"| 7 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 16
|-
| {{w|Hawaii}} || align="right"| || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| 1
|-
| {{w|Idaho}} || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| 3
|-
| {{w|Illinois}} || align="right"| 9 || align="right"| 13 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 23
|-
| {{w|Indiana}} || align="right"| 6 || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 11
|-
| {{w|Iowa}} || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 5
|-
| {{w|Kansas}} || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 5
|-
| {{w|Kentucky}} || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| || align="right"| 8
|-
| {{w|Louisiana}} || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| || align="right"| 8
|-
| {{w|Maine}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 3
|-
| {{w|Maryland}} || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 6 || align="right"| || align="right"| 8
|-
| {{w|Massachusetts}} || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 7 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 12
|-
| {{w|Michigan}} || align="right"| 9 || align="right"| 8 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 18
|-
| {{w|Minnesota}} || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 6 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 12
|-
| {{w|Mississippi}} || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 5
|-
| {{w|Missouri}} || align="right"| 6 || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 11
|-
| {{w|Montana}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| 2
|-
| {{w|Nebraska}} || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| 3
|-
| {{w|Nevada}} || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 4
|-
| {{w|New Hampshire}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| 2
|-
| {{w|New Jersey}} || align="right"| 6 || align="right"| 9 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 16
|-
| {{w|New Mexico}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 3
|-
| {{w|New York (state)|New York}} || align="right"| 12 || align="right"| 20 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 34
|-
| {{w|North Carolina}} || align="right"| 10 || align="right"| 9 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 20
|-
| {{w|North Dakota}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| || align="right"| 1
|-
| {{w|Ohio}} || align="right"| 11 || align="right"| 9 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 21
|-
| {{w|Oklahoma}} || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 6
|-
| {{w|Oregon}} || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 8
|-
| {{w|Pennsylvania}} || align="right"| 12 || align="right"| 11 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 24
|-
| {{w|Rhode Island}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| || align="right"| 3
|-
| {{w|South Carolina}} || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 3 || align="right"| || align="right"| 8
|-
| {{w|South Dakota}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| || align="right"| 1
|-
| {{w|Tennessee}} || align="right"| 6 || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 11
|-
| {{w|Texas}} || align="right"| 19 || align="right"| 16 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 37
|-
| {{w|Utah}} || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 4
|-
| {{w|Vermont}} || align="right"| || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| 1
|-
| {{w|Virginia}} || align="right"| 7 || align="right"| 8 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 16
|-
| {{w|Washington (state)|Washington}} || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 7 || align="right"| 2 || align="right"| 14
|-
| {{w|Washington DC}} || align="right"| || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| 1
|-
| {{w|West Virginia}} || align="right"| 4 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| 5
|-
| {{w|Wisconsin}} || align="right"| 6 || align="right"| 5 || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| 12
|-
| {{w|Wyoming}} || align="right"| 1 || align="right"| || align="right"| || align="right"| 1
|-class="sortbottom"
! Total || align="right"| 252 || align="right"| 264 || align="right"| 30 || align="right"| 546
|}

==Transcript==
:[A map of the United States, with Hawaii and Alaska offset, is shown. Across the states red, blue and green Cueball like stick figure are scattered about, much more on each coast, and very few in the central parts, especially in the mid west. There are about the same amount of red and blue stick figures. There are not many green, but they are represented almost in any state with more than 10 stick figures. Above the map there is a large bold title. Below that there is a legend description explaining the red, blue and green Cueball stick figure with labels of who they represent next to them. Below this, in light gray text, are two lines of explanation of how the map was created:]
:<big>'''2016 Election Map'''</big>
:Each figure represents 250,000 votes
:[Red stick figure:] Trump
:[Blue stick figure:] Clinton
:[Green stick figure:] Other
:Based on 2016 election results
:Votes are distributed by states as accurately as possible while keeping national totals correct.
:Location within each state is approximate.

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics with color]]
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[[Category:Maps]]
[[Category:Politics]]
[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Donald Trump]]

2417: 1/1,000th Scale World

2021-02-26T00:31:56Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Simplify introduction; add links.

{{comic
| number = 2417
| date = January 27, 2021
| title = 1/1,000th Scale World
| image = 1_1000th_scale_world.png
| titletext = We're worried that a regular whale will get into a 30-foot-deep ocean trench section and filter-feed on all the tiny whales.
}}

==Explanation==

This comic is the third in the [[:Category:Scale World|Scale World]] series.

Yet again, [[Randall]] has a seemingly complete {{w|scale model}} of {{w|Earth}}, this time at a larger {{w|Scale (ratio)|scale}} of 1:1000 – that is, 1 meter in this scale world represents 1000 meters in the real world. (This is ten times the size of Randall's [[2411|original scale world]].) Again, real-world features and phenomena (such as several underground {{w|neutrino detector}}s) are depicted at scale and labeled with warnings. Several of the warnings point out humorous consequences of the scale, such as non-scaled goldfish eating scaled-down blue whales. Other than the usual homo sapiens, the introduction of non-scaled animals into the scaled world (with consistently humorous consequences) is an addition to the earlier comics of the series.

===Table===
{| class="wikitable"
!Rule
!Reason
!Notes
|-
| Keep hot objects off the ice sheet over the south pole neutrino observatory
| Hot objects may emit Cherenkov radiation, which would result in the observatory detecting false positives of neutrino observations. They may also melt the ice that shields the detectors from other particles that would trigger false positives.
| The fact that people are not supposed to create false positives implies that the neutrino detector is functional.
|-
| Be patient: Niagara falls will take a few minutes to fill your water glass
| The flow rate is scaled down with the size. According to the [[what if]] ''{{what if|147|Niagara Straw}}, the Niagara Falls flow is regulated to 100,000 cubic feet per second on the tourist season and to 50,000 cubic feet per second offseason and at night. Once scaled to 1/1000, that flow would be 2.83 or 1.41ml per second. If a standard glass of water is 250ml, it would take about 90–180 seconds for the waterfall to fill it.

However, a 1/1000th replica of scale Niagra falls would be over a meter wide, so without some kind of system to divert the whole flow into one spot, it would not be possible to fill a glass this quickly. Also, the height of the scaled-down Niagra falls would be 5cm, with another 5cm between the water level and the riverbed, so it might be difficult to fill a glass depending on its height.
| This item is likely to be a reference to the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote: "Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls."
|-
| Watch for small planes
| Taking the popular Cessna 172 as an example, 1/1000th scale small planes would be about 8mm in length, and cruise at speeds of about 6cm/s, much slower than comparable flying insects. A Cessna of that size travelling at that speed would probably cause much more damage to itself than a person if it crashed into one, so the warning is probably there to protect the models rather than the guests. The planes are flying along 1-foot {{w|Flight level|flight levels}} according to the direction they are flying in, following the {{w|Flight level#Semicircular/hemispheric rule|semicircular rule}} of aviation.
|
|-
| Warning! Choking hazard! Keep small children away from ascending/descending airliners
| Airplanes are apparently small enough for children to fit into their mouths but large enough to potentially make them choke.
| In the US, small parts are defined by [https://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Education/Business-Guidance/Small-Parts-for-Toys-and-Childrens-Products 16 C.F.R. Part 1501.2] as fitting in a cylindrical test fixture of 1.25 inches diameter that approximates the size of the fully expanded throat of a child under three years old. Once scaled, any object smaller than 31.75 meters would fit in that cylinder. A lot of medium-sized and small airplanes would qualify. Furthermore, since pieces that break off during testing that simulates use or abuse by children could also pose a choking hazard, even large airliners are also a choking hazard because stripped wings and parts of the fuselage would fit in the required size.
|-
| Do not remove safety caps
| This is a reference to the warning, "Be careful not to step on cities with especially pointy towers, like Toronto, Seattle, and Dubai" from [[2411: 1/10,000th Scale World]]. It's possible that many visitors to that scaled world did not heed the warnings and complained to the scaled world's creators, causing them to cover pointy towers with safety caps for this scaled world. However, now there are [[Black Hat|people who apparently want to cause harm to others]], or at least don't care about not causing harm to others, by removing these safety caps.
The tip of the Burj Khalifa of Dubai - the tallest building in the scale world - appears to be about a meter and a half wide, or 1.5mm at 1/1000th scale. The other buildings pictured are the CN Tower of Toronto and the Eiffel Tower of Paris. (The Seattle Space Needle, referenced above, does not appear.)
|
|-
| No open flames in Zeppelin area
| The iconic Zeppelins, as with many other early airships, were filled with hydrogen to use its very low density to give them the buoyancy required to fly. However, it is also very flammable and prone to explosions, with other materials used in their construction also being notably liable to becoming a fire-danger. The most famous of these disasters was when the {{w|Hindenburg disaster|Hindenburg}} caught fire in 1937.
In more modern times, almost all airships, blimps and balloons use helium (and/or hot-air, sometimes in combination). This includes the six operational 'Zeppelin NT' craft, a modern semi-rigid design produced by the spiritual and economic successor to the original Zeppelin company.
| Helium is a noble gas and therefore not flammable, with a modern gondola and gasbag/envelope materials also being far less flammable in their own right. If Randall's scale model has airships of any sort, this may reflect an anachronistic mismatch against the clearly modern era neutrino detectors and other features. But any non-scale flames could be several magnitudes larger than 'normal' scaled-down hazards, so considered more of a ''general'' danger to the airships; as they also ought to be too many other elements of the scale world.
|-
| Do not bother the meteor crater ducks
| It is unclear whether the 'meteor crater' represents specifically {{w|Meteor Crater}} in Arizona, or some other unspecified or abstract meteor crater. The former is over a kilometer wide, so at 1/1000 scale it could be a small duck pond of 1.186m in diameter, and 17cm deep at its lowest point. This is (barely) enough space for a duck to swim in if filled to the brim with water. Meteor craters often leave behind lakes as they become filled with water, with examples being {{w|Lake Siljan}} in Europe. The ducks appear to be regular-sized as opposed to scaled-down, so they have probably added afterwards as an attraction as opposed to them coming with the landscape.
| Even though a lot of craters are filled with lakes, Meteor Crater is not filled with water, or ducks, in real life. {{Citation needed}}
|-
| Trip hazard: The Gateway Arch
| The {{w|Gateway Arch}} is a monument in Saint Louis, Missouri. Being a 192 m high arch once scaled it would be 19.2 cm high, ideal for tripping.
|
|-
| Drone altitude limit
| The FAA drone altitude limit is 400ft above the ground, which would be about 12cm on a 1/1000th scale. This appears to be the number Randall is using, as the limit in the comic is about the same height as the pyramids, which are also around 400ft tall in the real world.
|
|-
| Do not mix up the USS Enterprises
|
The ship is presumably a model of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the longest naval vessel ever built, which would be 34cm long on a 1/1000th scale.
The spaceship is the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) from the Star Trek franchise.
It's unclear whether mixing up the models is prohibited because it would damage them, or simply because that's not where they are supposed to be.
The Starship Enterprise might be corroded by seawater, or unable to handle external pressure (spacecraft are designed for the exact opposite pressures in a vacuum). If lifted into the air, the Aircraft Carrier Enterprise would probably fall back down because it can't fly {{Citation needed}} (and be damaged or even destroyed upon hitting the ground or water surface), but then again, it's unclear how the model Enterprise can fly or hover.
The Enterprise from the JJ Abrams films has been seen to hide underwater and take off again without significant problems, and the Original Series version has been seen to fly (high) in the Earth's atmosphere on several occasions. However, it is unclear whether other versions of the Enterprise also possess this standard operational ability, nor which version is represented in the comic.
|
|-
| No connecting the Dead Sea to the ocean
| The surface of the Dead Sea is 430.5 metres (1,412 ft) below sea level, so connecting it to the ocean would cause catastrophic flooding of the area. If there are models of Israeli and Jordanian cities next to the Dead Sea, they could get damaged by the water. Also, the model world would be less accurate because the Dead Sea is not connected to the ocean in real life.
| This has actually been proposed: {{w|Mediterranean–Dead Sea Canal|Dead Sea Canal}}
|-
| Do not let ants into the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
| The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was a neutrino observatory located at the 2100-meter depth level of the Creighton Mine in Ontario, Canada. It has since been upgraded to the SNOLAB facility. At 1/1000th scale, its meters-scale tunnels would be millimeters across, and its 3,000-meter maximum depth would reach three meters underground. This would make it ideal for habitation by ants, but as the mine is in rock, and not soil, extracting the ants after they get in would be much more difficult than most pest control operations. Also, some types of ants would eat the insulation around the wires, causing electrical short-circuits and other problems, which would be bad because the model's neutrino detectors are apparently functional. (See the row about the south pole neutrino observatory.)
|
|-
| Only one person on the Golden Gate Tightrope at a time
| The {{w|Golden Gate Bridge}} is a suspension bridge in San Francisco, 2.7 km long and 27 m wide. Scaled-down, it would be 2.7 m long and 2.7 cm wide, and it would be tempting to use it as a tightrope.
| In 1987, approximately 300,000 people [https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/Golden-Gate-bridge-walk-1987-anniversary-disaster-13896571.php walked across the Golden Gate Bridge], which could be the largest weight it has supported: 80kg * 300,000 = 2.4*10^7kg. A visitor to the scaled world would expect to weigh a much as (1000^3) = 1 billion native scaled humans, above the [https://www.vibrationdata.com/golden.htm total mass of the bridge].
|-
| Do not remove Statue of Liberty LEGO minifig
| Whoever has made this model has decided to use a small LEGO Minifigure rather than a more accurately sculpted replica of the Statue of Liberty. The person would likely not want it to be removed because it would then have to be replaced.
| LEGO has released a [https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/magnet-statue-of-liberty-2016-853600 Statue of Liberty minifigure] which is 5.3cm tall. The real Statue of Liberty, from head to toe, is 46 meters tall. At a 1/1000 scale, this would be a 4.6cm figurine, so the LEGO Minifigure would indeed be an appropriate representation at that scale.
|-
| Please stop releasing goldfish in the ocean. They keep eating the blue whales.
| Blue whales are the largest animal species in the world. They usually grow to about 20m long in real life, meaning that at 1/1000th scale they would be only 2cm long, meaning that they could be consumed by a goldfish. Goldfish are omnivores, so they would eat tiny blue whales. But they are also freshwater fish, so would they survive long enough in seawater to put the whales at risk? This could perhaps be considered carping. And perhaps Randall's customers have access to [https://mashable.com/2017/09/20/saltwater-bearing-goldfish-australia/ Australian goldfish].

This might also be a reference to the video game ''Tasty Blue,'' in which a goldfish eats animals of increasing size and eventually becomes large enough to eat blue whales.
|
|-
| We're worried that a regular whale will get into a 30-foot-deep ocean trench section and filter-feed on all the tiny whales.
| The ~10 deepest ocean trenches are in the vicinity of 30,000 ft, so they would be 30 ft deep in the model. A blue whale is about 15 ft tall, and there are several smaller species of whale, so a full-sized whale would fit into the scaled-down trench.
Blue whales usually eat {{w|krill}}; the tiny whales would be about the same size, though nowhere near the same density, so any feeding whale would soon go hungry. However, a 15-foot (ca. 5 meters) diameter whale in a 30-foot (ca. 9 m) trench (ignoring displacement, for the moment) would most likely be too stressed to eat.
| Following on to the full-size goldfish:scaled-down blue whale comparison, the title text compares a full-sized whale to the depth of the scaled-down ocean.
|}

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[At the top of the image, inside the panel, a large title is floating in the air.]
:RULES

:For visitors to my 1/1,000th scale world

:1 meter = 1 km 1 ft = 1,000 ft

:[Each of the following rules is written near a character or point of interest on the map.]

[Keep hot objects off the ice sheet over the south pole neutrino observatory]

[Do not bother the meteor crater ducks]

[No connecting the dead sea to the ocean]

[Be patient: Niagara falls will take a few minutes to fill your water glass]

[Trip hazard: the Gateway arch]

[Do not let ants into the Sudbury neutrino observatory]

[Megan balances on the Golden Gate bridge,her legs wobbling.]

[Only one person on the Golden Gate tightrope at a time]

[Watch for small planes]

[Drone altitude limit]

[Do not remove statue of liberty LEGO minifig]

[Do not remove safety caps]

[Caution: sharp]

[Do not mix up the USS enterprises:]

[Two zeppelins float in the sky.]

[No open flames in zeppelin area]

[A fish at a size relevant to the characters in the strip faces towards two small two small horizontal lines, presumably whales.]

[Please stop releasing goldfish in the ocean. They keep eating all the blue whales.]

[An arrow points to a small line in the sky resembling an airplane.]

[Warning! Choking hazard! Keep small children away from ascending/ descending airliners]

{{comic discussion}}

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2412: 1/100,000th Scale World

2021-02-26T00:18:08Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Simplify introduction; add links.

{{comic
| number = 2412
| date = January 15, 2021
| title = 1/100,000th Scale World
| image = 1_100000th_scale_world.png
| titletext = The floor should be slightly curved, but we haven't figured out artificial gravity yet, so for now we just added a trace intoxicating gas to the air that messes with your inner ear and gives you a sense that the ground is tilting away from you.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic is the second in the [[:Category:Scale World|Scale World]] series.

[[Randall]] has another seemingly complete {{w|scale model}} of {{w|Earth}}, this time at a smaller {{w|Scale (ratio)|scale}} of 1:100,000 – that is, 1 meter in this scale world represents 100,000 meters in the real world. (This is one tenth the size of his [[2411|previous scale world]].) Again, real-world features and phenomena are depicted at scale and labeled with warnings. Details on the various remarks are in the [[#Table|table]] below.

The title text states that the floor should be slightly curved. In fact, given that the model in the comic is about 10 meters long, it represents about 1000 km of Earth, which spans about 9 degrees of a great circle. Therefore, if the model wasn't larger than the part shown in the panel, its edges would have a very noticeable slope of 4.5 degrees. What's more, the note that they haven't invented artificial gravity reveals that the scale worlds are nothing more than a mundane model, rather than some supernatural phenomenon that allows giants to roam about the surface of the Earth.

===Table===
{| class="wikitable"
!Rule
!Reason
!Notes
|-
|Our aurora are probably non-toxic but please stop trying to taste them
| The aurora in the image is now temptingly at head height, and presumably look a lot like cotton candy or other inviting foodstuffs.
| The plural of "{{w|aurora}}" should actually be "auroras" or "aurorae".
|-
|No breaking off pieces of the ice caps to put in your drink
|An ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi) of land area.
|Breaking off pieces of ice caps would affect the climate of the scale world. In addition, breaking off pieces of somebody's models is ''very'' rude. However, at about 2-3 km thickness in real world, 1/100,000 scaled ice caps have a 2-3 cm thickness, which is a very convenient size to put in drinks.
|-
|Warning: Limited cell network coverage above the ionosphere, crouch down to get more bars
| The ionosphere reflects radio signals, in this case keeping terrestrial cellular phone signals from reaching phones higher up.
|The ionosphere would be at around 48-965 centimeters in the scale world, so visitors would need to place their phones below it to receive cellphone signals.
|-
|Do not step on Mt. Everest
| Mt. Everest, the highest peak on Earth, is several inches tall at 1:100,000 scale.
|Mt. Everest would probably be extremely sharp and puncture your foot.
|-
|Caution! Ocean floor slippery when wet
| Due to the smaller scale, the ocean depths would only be a few inches deep at most; this amount of liquid would cause more of a 'slippery surface' than a 'water region'.
|
|-
|Wear sunscreen; the ozone layer only protects you below the knees.
|The ozone layer is a layer of the Earth's stratosphere that shields the Earth from the Sun's ultraviolet rays.
|The ozone layer is approximately 15-35 kilometers above Earth, or 15-35 centimeters in this scaled world, below knee height. Visitors would need sunscreen to protect them from UV rays. In the real world, most humans live with their bodies entirely below the ozone layer{{Citation needed}} but wear sunscreen anyway, so visitors should probably also wear sunscreen below their knees as well as above if they're going to be visiting around midday.
|-
|Beware of chest-level meteors
|Meteors typically occur (i.e. become more visible than in space) in the mesosphere at altitudes from 76 to 100 km (250,000 to 330,000 ft).
|In the scale world, meteors would occur at 76 to 100 centimeters, around chest height. You'd expect head-level asteroids too, as precursors, but this may be (mutually) covered by the eye-protection against satellite re-entry, below. (A hard-hat would also be suggested.)
|-
| -100°C mesopause vest recommended
|The mesopause is the boundary in the earth's atmosphere between the mesosphere and the thermosphere. Due to the lack of solar heating and very strong radiative cooling from carbon dioxide, it is the coldest region on Earth with temperatures as low as -100 °C (-148 °F).
|Without protection, visitors would succumb to hypothermia due to the extremely low temperatures.
|-
|If Lake Tahoe or the Dead Sea dries up, refill them with this 5oz wine glass
|Five ounces, times 100,0003 (because this is volume, so the linear scale factor applies to each of three dimensions), would be about 150 cubic kilometers, which is the approximate volume of {{w|Lake Tahoe}}; the {{w|Dead Sea}} is recently about 115 cubic kilometers, though it used to be somewhat larger.
|Five fluid ounces (US customary) is a tad below 148 cubic centimeters, or milliliters. (Elsewhere, if used, it is actually nearer 142cc.) Modern wine glasses may actually hold 450ml (filled to the brim), but 150ml is typical of a late 19thC antique glass or a modern 'serving' level that is more tasteful/economic than an overgenerous 'drown your sorrows' one.
|-
|Safety glasses required for protection from reentering spacecraft
|It is at approximately head height in this model that de-orbiting spacecraft are at their fastest, depending upon where their decayed or departed original was. At scale, they'd probably equate to a metalworking fragment, perhaps more dangerous in quantity than individually.
|We also tend to know about satellites and fairings returning to Earth and most (unless intended to) won't significantly survive. Meteors (see above) are hard to spot in space unless particularly big, may only be detected when spotted burning up, may be significantly denser/less fragile, and could be traveling five times faster. General head protection may be advised, just in case.
|-
|Do not anger the sprites
| {{w|Sprite (lightning)|Sprites}} are poorly understood electrical phenomena in the upper atmosphere. They are enormous but very short-lived.
| Sprites are also a name given to a form of forest spirit known for mischievous and sometimes harmful behavior. In some fairy tales, a warning would be given to not anger the spirits in case of grave repercussions.
|-
|Please stop digging through the Moho. Staff are tired of cleaning up large igneous provinces.
|Short for the {{w|Mohorovičić discontinuity}}, the Moho is the boundary surface separating the Earth's crust from the mantle. It can be found at a depth of 6-7 miles under the ocean bed, and about 24-30 miles under the continents.
|Using Randall's 1/100,000th scale world, 6-7 miles would be approximately 4 inches, while 24-30 miles would be about 16 inches, making the Moho easily accessible via digging. It would indeed create {{w|Large igneous province|large igneous provinces}}, and make a big mess of lava that the staff would have to clean up, which would not be fun {{Citation needed}}. The lava has a decent chance to burn through a mop or some other tool, so it would be pretty tricky to clean up as well since your cleaning items would light on fire unless soaked in water or something. "Large igneous provinces" may be a reference to [[2061: Tectonics Game]], where making them is "the worst."
|-
|ISS (14 feet up) Returns every 90 minutes - Hit it with a nerf dart, win a prize!
| The {{w|International Space Station}} is the largest human-made object in space and orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes.
| This idea of treating modern research as a toy is in the same general panel area as the weather balloon smacking from the previous comic, except instead of a rule preventing people from doing so, this time the visitor is being ''dared'' to attempt it, similarly to a {{w|carnival game}}. Hitting the ISS with a nerf dart in this scaled world would have a potentially devastating effect on the ISS; however, at this scale, the ISS would be about a millimeter across, so that hitting it so far above your head as it goes by would be very difficult. Rather like a target in a typical carnival-game, the scale ISS is moving past at a moderate speed, about three inches per second (7.7 cm/s), so you can have several attempts before it's entirely out of range till its next orbit.
|}

==Transcript==
:[At the top of the image, inside the panel, a large title is floating in the air.]
:RULES
:For visitors to my 1/100,000th scale world
:1 meter = 100 km, 1 ft=100,000ft≈20 miles

:[Each of the following rules is written near a character or point of interest on the map.]

:[Dark-colored aurorae are floating in the air.]
:Our aurora are probably non-toxic but please stop trying to taste them

:[Ponytail is kneeling and breaking off part of an ice cap. In her other hand, she holds a wine glass.]
:No breaking off pieces of the ice caps to put in your drink

:[At around ankle height, a mountain is shown.]
:Do not step on Mount Everest

:[A relatively small ocean is shown on the right of Mount Everest.]
:Caution! [A pictogram of a person slipping.] Ocean floor slippery when wet

:[A cell coverage icon with one cell bar.]
:Warning: Limited cell network coverage above the ionosphere. Crouch down to get more bars

:[Megan is facing the aurorae. Thin horizontal lines are at her knees.]
:Wear sunscreen; the ozone layer only protects you below the knees.

:[Cueball is standing with three meteors whizzing both at and away from him.]
:Beware of chest-level meteors

:[A dotted line is at the Cueball from the last rule's chest.]
:-100°C mesopause vest recommended

:[A wine glass is resting on the ground near a shallow depression.]
:If Lake Tahoe or the Dead Sea dries up, refill them with this 5oz wine glass

:[Another Cueball is standing, holding both hands up to his face.]
:Safety glasses required for protection from reentering spacecraft
:Cueball: ''OW!''
:(off-panel voice): What?
:Cueball: I got a Soyuz in my eye

:[A tornado-shaped lightning sprite is hovering over a cloud.]
:Do not anger the sprites

:[A dotted line weaves belowground.]
:Please stop digging through the Moho. Staff are tired of cleaning up large igneous provinces.

:[An arrow pointing above the panel top.]
:ISS (14 feet up)
:Returns every 90 minutes
:Hit it with a Nerf dart, win a prize!

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2411: 1/10,000th Scale World

2021-02-26T00:05:08Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Attempt to simplify/clarify explanation of scale model; add Wikipedia links.

{{comic
| number = 2411
| date = January 13, 2021
| title = 1/10,000th Scale World
| image = 1_10000th_scale_world.png
| titletext = OCEAN PLAY AREA RULES: No running, no horseplay, no megatsunamis, and no trying to pry the wreck of the Titanic off the bottom.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic is the first in the [[:Category:Scale World|Scale World]] series.

Large objects (cars, airplanes, etc.) are often reproduced as {{w|scale model}}s, which are proportionally smaller {{w|physical model}}s of the original objects. The {{w|Scale (ratio)|scale}} of such a model is typically expressed as the {{w|ratio}} of the ''size of the model'' (the first number) to the ''size of the original object'' (the second number). For example, a 1/10,000th scale model means that 1 meter in the model represents 10,000 meters in the original object. The same applies to {{w|Scale (map)|maps}} and {{w|globe}}s. What Randall has here, though, is neither a map nor a model but a seemingly complete copy of {{w|Earth}}, at a 1:10,000 scale. Various features and warnings are labeled.

{{w|Miniature parks}}, also known as model villages, are tourist attractions around the world of a scale between 1:9 and 1:72. For example, the finale of the movie ''{{w|Hot Fuzz}}'' features a battle amongst a miniature of the streets and buildings seen so far in the film. Normally a miniature park would feature a representation of one geographical location rather than a geologically/technologically accurate depiction of our current planet. Whether or not Randall is aware of it, the reputed [http://www.mapascotland.org/ largest outdoor relief map in the world] is set out at a horizontal scale of 1:10,000.

Real-world phenomena are reproduced at scale, for humorous effect. A real 1/10,000th scale "Earth" would have a diameter of less than a mile, and a surface area of around 2 square miles, the approximate dimensions of a medium-sized asteroid. On such an object, constrained by known physics, there would be no air, standing water, weather, or large magma bodies, and any sort of rough-housing would irrecoverably catapult the visitor into space.

Normally in a miniature model, most warnings try to prevent the visitors from accidentally doing something cataclysmic to the model. Likewise, the "ocean play area rules" in the title text tell visitors not to create any {{w|megatsunami}}s, which could conceivably be induced by a cannonball dive. But as digging seems to be discouraged mainly where it causes volcanoes to break out, the visitors seem to be given far greater freedom than usual.

Visitors are also instructed not to try to pry the model of the {{w|wreck of the Titanic}} off the ocean floor. In our world, the wreck is at a depth of 12,500 feet, which would be 1 foot and 3 inches in Randall's model world. The Titanic was over 882 feet long, but the ship split in half as she sank, and now lies in two pieces about a third of a mile apart. Randall's model would have two pieces about a half-inch in size separated by about two inches. If the models are rusted and sunk in mud just like the real wreck is, trying to pry them loose would certainly damage them, but all of Randall's other rules seem to be about preventing harm to guests, not preventing damage to the model, so maybe he just doesn't want guests bending over and exerting themselves in the water where they could slip, submerge their faces, and be at risk of drowning.

Scale models, and the problems with them, were the subject of [[878: Model Rail]]. In general, illustrating relative scale is a [[:Category:Illustrations of scale|recurring subject]] on xkcd. This comic is also somewhat reminiscent of [[941: Depth Perception]].

{| class="wikitable"
!Rule
!Reason
!Notes
|-
| Watch out for airliners cruising near shoulder level
| Unintentional catastrophic damage to air traffic. The damage likely wouldn't be reciprocal: actual airplane speed is very similar to the speed at which a bullet is fired [https://pinchito.es/2019/high-speeds], but 1/10,000 of that is quite slow, on the order of 10 inches / 25 cm per second - which is fortunate because the aircraft would weigh about half a milligram (1/50000 oz) or more.
| At this scale, the lowest airliner cruising altitude would be 3 ft or 0.9 m [https://time.com/5309905/how-high-do-planes-fly/#:~:text=Commercial%20aircraft%20typically%20fly%20between,that%20can%20present%20safety%20issues.], shoulder height for a 5-year-old [https://www.disabled-world.com/calculators-charts/height-weight-teens.php]. Scaling the height of the highest plane to ever fly [https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2017/05/28/altitude/102185856/] puts it at 9 ft, which would put it just over the head of the tallest person who ever lived [https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/hall-of-fame/robert-wadlow-tallest-man-ever]
|-
| Trip hazard: Appalachian Mountains
| At half a foot tall, the Appalachians could trip visitors who are not being careful.
| 6684 ft ≈ 0.67 ft in the model world
|-
| Do not stand or climb on Mt. Everest
| One may destroy the model.
|Also, Everest appears to be rather pointy. Also still a bit steep, so visitors may fall down and hurt themselves.
|-
| Caution: Hydro-thermal vents underfoot
|Hydrothermal vents are extremely hot, which could cause burns to the feet of the viewers
|Underwater volcanoes and stuff
|-
| Children must be supervised while in the ocean, especially near trenches
|They might drown.
|The Challenger Deep is 36,200 feet below the surface; this equates to 3.62 feet in the model world, a depth which small children could conceivably drown in.
|-
| Danger: positive lightning! Do not touch cloud tops
| The cumulonimbus cloud is an electrocution hazard, as Megan is learning the hard way
| Getting too close to the positive cloud tops risks causing lightning to arc into you down to the negative ground.
|-
| Avoid hypoxia by regularly sitting to bring your lungs below the death zone
| The scale world even has a scale atmosphere, and visitors are cautioned to regularly sit down so they can breathe below the {{w|death zone}}, which is approximately two and a half feet above the surface.
| The death zone is approximately 8,000 meters above the ground, equating to 0.8 meters or 2.62 feet in the model world. There is also a what-if on the subject [https://what-if.xkcd.com/64/].
|-
| Do not dig near Yellowstone
| Digging up the {{w|Yellowstone Caldera}} could potentially reactivate the {{w|supervolcano}} there.
|
|-
| Please do not smack weather balloons
| Smacking balloons around can be a fun activity, mostly done by children, but it would be very unfriendly if done to weather balloons.
| Weather balloons can reach 20 ft in diameter before bursting, corresponding to a 0.6 mm small object at this scale. The idea of smacking research data raises a sense of how advanced the idea of a physics-complete model of the world is, next to possible comparative banality of academic research.
|-
| Be careful not to step on cities with especially pointy towers, like Toronto, Seattle, and Dubai
| The {{w|CN Tower}}, the {{w|Space Needle}} and the {{w|Burj Khalifa}} are much taller than they are wide, thus, "pointy." The Burj Khalifa, the tallest of the three, would stand at 3.2 inches (8.3 cm) at this scale, making it possible to impale one's foot on it when walking
| [[File:Empire State Building (aerial view).jpg|right|100px|thumb|Pointy.]] This seems to be exclusively for the visitors' benefit, rather than that of the cities.
|}

==Transcript==
:[At the top of the image, inside the panel, a large title is floating in the air.]
:RULES

:For visitors to my 1/10,000th scale world

:1 meter = 10 km 1 ft = 10,000 ft ~ 2 miles

:[Each of the following rules is written near a character or point of interest on the map.]

:[Two small dots with thin lines coming out of them horizontally are in the air near Cueball, who is brushing them off.]
:Watch out for airliners cruising near shoulder level

:[Small mountains are seen near the left edge of the screen, by Cueball's feet.]
:Trip hazard: Appalachian Mountains

:[A young Hairy is climbing on mountains reaching approximately Cueball's waist.]
:Do not stand or climb on Mt. Everest

:[Under the water, a small bump in the ground expells bubbles.]
:Caution: Hydro-thermal vents underfoot

:[Science Girl stands shoulder-deep in the ocean, peering down into the trench below.]
:Children must be supervised while in the ocean, especially near trenches

:[Megan's hand is extended, and lightning from the cloud is jumping to her hand.]
:Danger: positive lightning! Do not touch cloud tops

:[Ponytail sits near some mountains, with a dotted line in the air stretching across her forehead.]
:Avoid hypoxia by regularly sitting to bring your lungs below the death zone

:[A blob-shaped thing with wiggly grey texture lines drawn all over is underground.]
:Do ''not'' dig near Yellowstone

:[A second Cueball is jumping in the air, a hand reached back, in position to smack a weather balloon.]
:Please do not smack weather balloons

:[Some very tiny vertical lines extend from the ground.]
:Be careful not to step on cities with especially pointy towers, like Toronto, Seattle, and Dubai

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2343: Mathematical Symbol Fight

2021-02-25T22:42:23Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Table of symbols */ Fix template/link.

{{comic
| number = 2343
| date = August 7, 2020
| title = Mathematical Symbol Fight
| image = mathematical_symbol_fight.png
| titletext = Oh no, a musician just burst in through the door confidently twirling a treble clef.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic imagines which {{w|List of mathematical symbols|mathematical symbols}} would be good in a fight if they were made corporeal in two (or three) dimensions. Generally, objects with longer reach and pointier ends wind up on the right ("more useful") side of the scale, and symbols with less reach and more curves tend towards the left ("less useful") side.

Below the chart, with the symbols listed in order of usefulness, eight characters wield eight of the symbols. See the [[#Table of symbols|table]] below for the meaning of each symbol.

The comic invokes {{w|surreal humour}} by suggesting that mathematical symbols could be handled as physical objects in the real world. Another component of the humor is the implication that it is useful to prepare to use mathematical symbols in a fight, even though mathematicians, who use mathematical symbols, usually do not conduct their debates violently (though some stories suggest that {{w|Hippasus}} was killed by his fellow Pythagoreans for his proof that irrational numbers exist), and even if they did, they wouldn't use large reproductions of their symbols as weapons.

A straight line is farthest to the "more dangerous" side, which could possibly be a reference to the dangers posed by lines in "Flatland", because their infinitely-sharp endpoints could be difficult to see (particularly their rear end, which does not contain a gleaming eye as their front end does) and would fatally pierce whoever they chose to stab. However, taking a more literal view of the drawings, the straight line does not appear to be any thicker or thinner, or pointier, than any of the other lines.

The title text refers to a {{w|Treble clef}}, which is not a mathematical symbol but rather a {{w|List of musical symbols|musical symbol}}. The note of concern in the text suggests musical symbols may be viewed in such fights as exotic or especially dangerous. See also the last entry in the table below.

==Table of symbols==
{| class="wikitable"
! Symbol
! Meaning
! Notes on using in a fight
|-
| ℝ
|The set of [[wikipedia:real number|real number]]s
|[[Megan]] seems to be struggling with a giant version of this symbol because of its weight. A very strong person might find it slightly more useful as a bludgeon.
|-
| θ
|[[wikipedia:Theta#Mathematics_and_science|Theta]]
|This symbol is not very sharp, and [[White Hat]] is unable to use it in combat. It would not work as a good shield due to the hole in the symbol, but it possibly could be thrown. (The later version of Xena's chakram had a bar in the middle.)
|-
| ∅
|[[wikipedia:Empty set|Empty set]]
|Similarly shaped to theta, but identified as being slightly more useful, presumably because the parts of the bar that extend beyond the circle can be used as thrusting weapons. Alternatively, the round nature of the symbol makes it easier to handle for defense, by holding on to the line and using the edge of the circular part to block.
|-
| ∞
|infinity
|Could be gripped between the rings and used as a blunt instrument.
|-
| >
|Greater than
|Could be used to thrust with the point, but lacks a grip by which to do so. If held by one leg, the angle and balance is wrong to use it as a pick. Could also be used as a [[wikipedia:Boomerang|boomerang]].
|-
| ∝
|[[wikipedia:Proportionality_(mathematics)#Direct_proportionality|Direct Proportionality]] (not to be confused with lowercase {{w|Alpha#Mathematics and science|alpha}})
|Could be brandished by the ring and used to thrust with the prongs, but the two prongs extending at 90-degree angles make thrusting motions awkward.
|-
| ∪
|{{w|union (set theory)}}
|Could be used as a boomerang, which is {{tvtropes|PrecisionGuidedBoomerang|notoriously less practical in real life than in fiction}}
|-
| ∈/ϵ
|{{w|Element (mathematics)|member of}} (set theory) or the "lunate" lowercase {{w|Epsilon#Symbol|epsilon}}
|[[Cueball]] is holding this in the manner of a Klingon "{{w|Bat'leth}}" from the ''Star Trek'' franchise. The Bat'leth is [https://youtu.be/VsElSDXPgSA infamous] among swordfighters for being rather impractical, and that the Klingon warrior race would have been better suited using swords like humans. It seems Randall agrees, as the ∈ is quite far on the left of the chart. (In the comic it is drawn with a handle, like Ψ, so it could be used as a trident)
|-
| π
|[[wikipedia:Pi|pi]]
|Could be used as a hammer, but the two handles would make doing so impractical.
|-
| ∀
|"{{w|Universal quantification|for all}}"
|Could be held by the crossbar clenched in a fist, and then used as a {{w|push dagger}}, with the legs acting as a guard. Or could be held by the legs.
Compared to the similar Δ (delta) the point is sharper, the grip is closer to the point so it would be easier to control (keep the weapon from twisting). It is unclear why it is listed as much less effective than the delta. Perhaps the guard legs are too long?
|-
| ∂
|{{w|∂}} ([[wikipedia:Partial derivative|partial derivative]] or [[wikipedia:Boundary_(topology)|boundary operator]])
|It's not clear why Randall ranks this symbol as so much less effective than the similarly-shaped 𝜌, but the curl in the "tail" of the ∂ would give it a shorter lever arm when swung and would disrupt the balance.
|-
| +
|[[wikipedia:Plus_and_minus_signs#Plus_sign|Plus]]
|Maybe thrown like a {{w|shuriken}}? It could also be used like Kilo Ren's lightsaber. (I don't know how to reference Wikipeadia, sorry)
|-
| Ψ
|[[wikipedia:Psi#Mathematics|Psi]]
|It could be used as a slightly-less-functional trident or pitchfork, with a shorter handle. More particularly, it resembles a {{w|Sai (weapon)|sai}} (which, funnily enough, is how "Psi" is pronounced).
|-
| ≠
|not equal sign
|Could be gripped by the crossbar, using the lengths to puncture. Notably, the equal sign (=) is absent from the chart, likely because the lengths are separate and would not be used as a single entity.
|-
| ~
|[[wikipedia:Tilde#Mathematics|tilde]], meaning "approximately", equivalent, or several transforms of a function
|A potentially dangerous throwing weapon. Could also be similar to a wavy bladed dagger ({{w|Kris}}) or a sword ({{w|Flame-bladed sword}}).
|-
| #
|[[wikipedia:Cardinality|Cardinality]], [[wikipedia:Connected_sum|connected sum]] (knot theory), or [[wikipedia:Primorial|primorial]].
|[[Blondie]] uses this symbol, gripping it by two of the prongs on one side. The other three prongs could thus be swung at opponents, but being sharp on all sides would pose a threat to the user as well as the opponent.
|-
| Δ
|[[wikipedia:Delta_(letter)|Delta]]
|Could be held with one bar clenched in a fist, and then used as a {{w|push dagger}}. It is unclear why listed as much more effective than ∀. Also, delta could be thrown like a star.
|-
| ⇒
|[[wikipedia:Material_conditional|Material consequence]] or [[wikipedia:Logical_consequence|Logical consequence]], meaning "implies"
|The point is nice, but having two poles (or one board-like thick handle, if the shape is drawn "closed" at the back) would be difficult to wield. A collection of them might make a nice defensive pike line.
|-
| ⋅
|decimal point (or multiplication sign)
|Functionally a ball, and could therefore be thrown as a projectile weapon, or scattered on the ground as a trip hazard.
|-
| ζ
|{{w|Zeta#Mathematics_and_science|Zeta}}
|Could be sharpened into a scythe or curved saber, depending on the curvature and length of the 'tail' at the bottom.
|-
| ℵ
|[[wikipedia:Aleph_number|Aleph number]]
|The irregular shape of the symbol leads to edges and points on all sides; thus it could be brandished or thrown in the manner of a shuriken.
|-
| Γ
|uppercase Greek letter {{w|Gamma#Uppercase|Gamma}}
|If this letter is formed with {{w|serif}}s, it could be used as an axe or hook, and if it is made {{w|sans-serif}}, it would make a powerful pick or war hammer.
|-
| √
|{{w|Radical symbol}}
|Randall has drawn this sign with a long overbar, which makes it useful like a {{w|Pole weapon|pole arm}}. [[Black Hat]] has chosen this symbol in his fight against [[Hairy]].
|-
| ''ρ''
|{{w|Prime_constant|italic rho}}
|[[Ponytail]] is brandishing this symbol against [[Danish]], apparently using it like a club or hammer and striking with the curve.
|-
| ∮
|{{w|contour integral}}
|This symbol is drawn with a very tight center, giving it an almost identical figure to the regular integral symbol. Presumably, the added bulk for marginal additional use earns it a rating of 'less effective'.
|-
| ∫
|{{w|integral}}
|Could be used in the manner of a shepherd's crook, or as a {{w|Bill (weapon)|billhook}}. Could be used as a {{w|spear thrower}}, combined with ⋅ or ⇀.
|-
| →
|Implies; X→Y means that if X is true, then Y is also true
|[[Danish]] is brandishing this symbol against Ponytail, apparently using it like a spear or other polearm. It is unclear why this is listed as less useful than the 'vector notation' arrow.
|-
| ⊥
|{{w|up tack}} or falsum, indicating a false proposition in logic, perpendicular lines in geometry, or the bottom element in a partial order
|Used as a {{w|war hammer}} (held by the long stem), the opponent would be struck with either leg of the top of the T. Held by the short legs (like a wishbone), could be used as a two handed sword.
(If tipped with a knapped stone head, it could become a {{w|Folsom point|falsum point}}.)
|-
| ⇀
|{{w|Vector notation}}
|Could be used as a single-barbed spear. It is unclear why this is listed as more useful than the 'implies' arrow.
|-
| ––
|{{w|Fraction#Vocabulary|Fraction bar}} (division) or {{w|Overline#Math_and_science|overline}} (complex conjugate or mean) or {{w|Plus and minus signs#Minus sign|minus sign}}.
|[[Hairy]] is brandishing this symbol against Black Hat. The single shaft would allow it to be used in the manner of a {{w|quarterstaff}}, {{w|bō}}, or other {{w|stick-fighting}} weapon. Of the symbols shown in the comic, Randall considers this one the most useful in a fight, presumably because of its greater reach than the vector arrow and its simplicity compared to the radix root symbol.
|-
| 𝄞
|{{w|Treble clef}}
|Mentioned in the title text; this is not a mathematical symbol, but a musical symbol. The treble clef is a much more complicated symbol than those used in mathematics, hence the musician's "confidence" in his weapon. The curve at the bottom could be used as a hook, the upper curl could be used as a blunt weapon, and the tight curl of the center would serve as a better defensive shield than theta.
|}

==Transcript==
:[A chart is shown with 30 different symbols arranged above a line with arrows in both ends and with 17 ticks between the arrow heads. The symbols are mostly in two rows, but the first two symbols from the left do not have another symbol above them, and towards the right there are a segment with three rows of symbols. Above the symbols there is a heading and a subheading. And beneath those there is a long arrow pointing right with a label above it.]
:<big>Mathematical Symbols</big>
:By how useful they would be in a fight
:More useful
: ℝ ∅ > ∝ π + Ψ ~ ⇒ ⋅ Γ √ ∮ ∫ ⇀
: θ ∞ ∪ ∈ ∀ ∂ ≠ # Δ ζ ℵ ''ρ'' → ⊥ ––

:[Below the double arrow line are eight characters that fight each other in groups of two by using some of the symbols shown above them as weapons. They have chosen symbols that are almost above them in the chart.]
:[Megan is awkwardly handling a giant "ℝ" holding it up against White Hat who is holding a "θ" (or "∅"?) with both hands, as a shield.]
:[Cueball is holding an "∈" in both hands, with its "tines" pointed towards Blondie, who is swatting at him with a "#".]
:[Ponytail is leaping at Danish, swinging a "''ρ''" like an axe, while Danish is leaning back and thrusting a "→" back at her.]
:[Black Hat is swinging a long "√" like a polearm at Hairy, who is holding a long "⎯" defensively.]

==Trivia==
*Here is a list of symbols from left to right (by rightmost edge):
** ℝ θ ∅ ∞ > ∪ ∝ ∈ ∀ π ∂ + ≠ Ψ # ~ △ ζ ⇒ ⋅ ℵ Γ ''ρ'' √ → ∮ ∫ ⊥ ⇀ ––
**Note: Where two symbols had similar right-most edges, the overlay grid on an ASUS pro-art display was used to decide which one went further right.

{{comic discussion}}

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2413: Pulsar Analogy

2021-02-24T22:58:54Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Fix link, punctuation.

{{comic
| number = 2413
| date = January 18, 2021
| title = Pulsar Analogy
| image = pulsar_analogy.png
| titletext = The #2 cause of astronomer hand injuries is trying to do vector math when the second axis points off to the right.
}}

==Explanation==

{{w|Pulsar}}s are a kind of old, shrunken, fast-spinning star. They are usually {{w|neutron stars}}. They no longer shine in all directions, but instead produce beams of radiation out their magnetic poles, which blip by us in rapid pulses as they spin.

Ponytail, an astronomer in this comic, explains a pulsar's fast rotation with an analogy about a tape measure retracting. The analogies that Ponytail picks are incredibly poor ones.

Since the analogy does result in something that spins, the reader might think that, while they don't immediately see how it helps in understanding pulsars, they're willing to reserve judgment to see what is then done with the analogy; Cueball's response may suggest this sort of wait-and-see attitude. However, the analogy is likely to be useless or misleading, as the tape measure starts to rotate because the retracting tape is not moving only in a radial (in/out) direction. As a star collapses into a pulsar over unimaginably many years, its natural rotation rate is imperceptibly and eventually greatly amplified by its shrinking moment of inertia.

Further elaborations of the analogy, rather than clarifying matters, are successively more surreal. More misleading than the tape-measure is the idea of a laser measure being "exactly" like the emissions of a pulsar, which, although both pulse (and both for the same reason of holding pulsed light representation on our timeline in view of our deities), are produced in entirely different ways and are at best simply helping the mind hold the concept.

When a tape measure retracts, the part of the tape outside the tape measure is not going directly towards the tape measure's center but rather towards a hole in the side. This means the tape possesses some angular momentum relative to the tape measure. In addition, when the tape measure retracts, the part of the tape inside the tape measure rotates around a spool (which pulls the part of the tape outside the tape measure inside), so it also has angular momentum relative to the tape measure. When the tape is completely retracted, the tape can no longer rotate relative to the tape measure. Because of the conservation of rotational momentum, the tape measure will no longer spin at this point.

While pulsars also rotate quickly due to the conservation of angular momentum, the exact {{w|Pulsar#Formation,_mechanism,_turn_off|mechanism}} is completely different. Pulsars are formed when stars collapse due to no longer performing enough fusion to produce enough heat and energy to cancel out gravity. This causes the star to contract, which causes its mass, on average, to be closer to its axis of rotation, which causes the rotational inertia (also called the moment of inertia) to decrease. If the star's angular velocity stayed constant, this would cause the angular momentum to decrease, so the star's angular velocity must increase in order to offset the decrease in rotational inertia, i.e. the star (which is now a pulsar) spins faster. This method requires an initial rotation, which comes from the star. (The star's rotation comes from the dynamics of the gas cloud which forms the solar system in the first place.)

Some tape measures have a built-in {{w|laser line level}} and others have a built-in {{w|laser rangefinder}}. Pulsars emit electromagnetic radiation out of their magnetic poles, which is similar to a laser, but unlike the laser of a tape measure, the pulsar beam is emitted through the axis of the magnetic field. The pulsing nature of a pulsar comes from when the axis of rotation is not precisely aligned with the axis of the magnetic field, and the location of the viewer as the beam sweeps by. In the tape measure analogy the beam is at a right angle to the axis of rotation, so as long as the viewing angle isn't parallel with the rotation axis, the viewer would see the laser increase and decrease periodically as it the rotating tape measure points towards or away from the viewer.

While pulsars do demonstrate incredible {{w|Quake_(natural_phenomenon)#Starquake|starquakes}} and rotational {{w|Glitch_(astronomy)|glitches}}, neutron degeneracy is part of the mechanisms in which they are originally formed.

However, astronomers do not usually let go of laser tape measures frequently, so they are probably not the top cause of any type of hand injuries, as [[Ponytail]] said.

The title text mentions the {{w|right-hand rule}} in three-dimensional space. In a typical 3D coordinate system the Y-axis will point counterclockwise to the X-axis when looking down from the positive Z-axis. In academia, students are often taught to remember a number of mathematical conventions by using their actual physical right and left hands to align the axes. When the axes are in a different order, the left hand can be used in stead of the right, but there are a number of common operations in engineering and physics that use the {{w|cross product}} in systems where the first axis might point in absolutely any direction relative to the viewer. Using the hand rules, the thumb is aimed along the first axis, the forefinger along the second, and the middle finger along the third -- all at ninety degrees. So, when the first axis points off to the right, the right wrist is torqued to its full extension to make the thumb point that way while the other two fingers don't. During exams students can be seen performing this feat. People who learn cross products early in their life may develop other approaches for remembering these things, that don't stretch the hands as much, but then adopt the common approach once taught it.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball and Ponytail are standing next to each other.]
:Cueball: Why do pulsars spin so ''fast?''
:Ponytail: Hmm, let me think of an analogy...

:[A tape measure is retracting above Ponytail's head. To the right of her head, a tape measure is spinning rapidly.]
:Retracting tape measure: ''zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz''
:Spinning tape measure: SNAP
:Ponytail: You know how when you retract a tape measure and let go, it leaves it spinning?
:Ponytail: It's like that.
:Cueball (off-panel): Oh, I see.

:[A tape measure with a laser instead of a measuring tape is spinning slowly.]
:Cueball (off-panel): And if the tape measure is the kind with a laser level, that's the beam of radiation?
:Ponytail (off-panel): Exactly!

:[Cueball and Ponytail are walking next to each other in silhouette.]
:Ponytail: And when the tape whips around and smacks your hand, that's the neutron degeneracy shockwave.
:Cueball: Sounds painful!
:Ponytail: Top cause of astronomer hand injuries.

{{comic discussion}}
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2393: Presidential Middle Names

2021-02-24T22:57:42Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* List of Presidents with middle names */ S in Harry S. Truman should be followed by a period, according to Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum, US Gov't Publishing Office Style Manual, and even in his own signature.

{{comic
| number = 2393
| date = December 2, 2020
| title = Presidential Middle Names
| image = presidential_middle_names.png
| titletext = The bottom of the list remains unchanged. Poor Rutherford Birchard Hayes.
}}

==Explanation==
A list of what Randall perceives will be the prettiest presidential {{w|middle names}} after the inauguration on January 20, 2021. {{w|Joe Biden|Joe Robinette Biden}} (46th president-elect) will take the second slot bumping previous second-place holder {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Delano Roosevelt}}, the 32nd president, back to third. {{w|Warren G. Harding|Warren Gamaliel Harding}}, the 29th president, remains in first. Robinette is Biden's [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2008/08/joe_bidens_middle_name_is_robi.html grandmother's maiden name].

The title text announces that {{w|Rutherford B. Hayes|Rutherford Birchard Hayes}}, the 19th president, remains at or near the bottom.

Overall, the ranking would not include every president, as many early presidents, such as {{w|George Washington}} and {{w|John Adams}}, lacked middle names. Some presidents were also more commonly known by their middle names as opposed to their first names, particularly John {{w|Calvin Coolidge}}, Stephen {{w|Grover Cleveland}}, Hiram {{w|Ulysses Grant}}, and Thomas {{w|Woodrow Wilson}}. Grant additionally acquired a spurious "middle" initial S, hence, ''Ulysses S. Grant''. There is no evidence in the comic for how Randall’s list would deal with these cases.

The humor is based on the sheer oddity of ranking people by the perceived prettiness of their obscure middle names.

== Trivia ==

{{w|Raphael Warnock|Raphael Gamaliel Warnock}} became a U.S. Senator in January 2021, a hundred years and a week after former president Warren Gamaliel Harding left the Senate. Randall’s favourite presidential middle name is thus once again represented in government.

==List of Presidents with middle names==
(updated for 2021, as the comic)
{| class="wikitable"
|+ (Ordered by middle name)
! President
! Presidential order
|-
|James ABRAM Garfield
|20
|-
|Chester ALAN Arthur
|21
|-
|Lyndon BAINES Johnson
|36
|-
|Rutherford BIRCHARD Hayes
|19
|-
|John CALVIN Coolidge
|30
|-
|Herbert CLARK Hoover
|31
|-
|Dwight DAVID Eisenhower
|34
|-
|Franklin DELANO Roosevelt
|32
|-
|James EARL Carter
|39
|-
|John FITZGERALD Kennedy
|35
|-
|Warren GAMALIEL Harding
|29
|-
|Stephen GROVER Cleveland
|22, 24
|-
|William HENRY Harrison
|9
|-
|George HERBERT WALKER Bush
|41
|-
|William HOWARD Taft
|27
|-
|Barack HUSSEIN Obama
|44
|-
|William JEFFERSON Clinton
|42
|-
|Donald JOHN Trump
|45
|-
|James KNOX Polk
|11
|-
|Richard MILHOUS Nixon
|37
|-
|John QUINCY Adams
|6
|-
|Joe ROBINETTE Biden
|46
|-
|Gerald RUDOLPH Ford
|38
|-
|Harry S. Truman
|33
|-
|Hiram ULYSSES Grant
|18
|-
|George WALKER Bush
|43
|-
|Ronald WILSON Reagan
|40
|-
|Thomas WOODROW Wilson
|28
|}

The Presidents without middle names — almost all of those before Grant, and a few a bit later — were George Washington, John Adams, {{w|Thomas Jefferson}}, {{w|James Madison}}, {{w|James Monroe}}, {{w|Andrew Jackson}}, {{w|Martin Van Buren}}, {{w|John Tyler}}, {{w|Zachary Taylor}}, {{w|Millard Fillmore}}, {{w|Franklin Pierce}}, {{w|James Buchanan}}, {{w|Abraham Lincoln}}, {{w|Andrew Johnson}}, {{w|Benjamin Harrison}}, {{w|William McKinley}}, and {{w|Theodore Roosevelt}}.

==Transcript==
:<big>Prettiest</big>
:Presidential Middle Names Official Rankings
:(Updated for 2021)

# Gamaliel (Warren Harding)
#Robinette (Joe Biden) '''(NEW!)'''
#Delano (Franklin Roosevelt) 

{{comic discussion}}

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1647: Diacritics

2021-02-24T22:43:21Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Fix quotation punctuation, fix broken what if? link.

{{comic
| number = 1647
| date = February 24, 2016
| title = Diacritics
| image = diacritics.png
| titletext = Using diacritics correctly is not my forté.
}}

==Explanation==
A {{w|diacritic}} (or a diacritical mark) is a {{w|glyph}} added to a letter. The main use of diacritical marks in the {{w|latin script}} is to change the sound-values of the letters to which they are added, typically {{w|vowels}}.

[[Cueball]] is writing an e-mail (maybe for a job application) and notes in the mail that he attaches his {{w|résumé}}, or {{w|curriculum vitae}}. The word ''résumé'' uses two ''e''s with an {{w|acute accent}} so they look like this: é.

While diacritics can be common in several languages, English is an example of a language that rarely ever has any at all. This occurs to such an extent that words and expressions borrowed from other languages (such as "résumé" or "piñata") are frequently written in English with the diacritics omitted, as in "resume" or "pinata". As Cueball/[[Randall]] is a native English speaker, it is thus natural that he often forgets (or just doesn't bother) to add these diacritics, hence the title of the comic. When he occasionally remembers them, for instance when he types a word where he knows they should be included, like résumé, he then makes up for all those he must have forgotten since last time he thought of it, and thus adds a whole bunch at once. This reason is somewhat nonsensical.

Randall may be poking fun at people who use {{w|Zalgo text|Zalgo}}, a form of spam where people continuously spam diacritics in chat messages. For example:

T̯̙̻̼̠͕̙̬̬̜̼̊ͥͦͬͤ̇̎̆̌ͭ͢͠͡o̡̲̩̟̲̬̰̪̜̝͙̺̦̙͍̳ͬͯͯ͋͒̍ͨ̓̇́̚̚̕ ̸̢̬̘̦͕̯̱̜̲̼̤ͬͧͤͨǐ̷̷̯̼̝̹̫ͪ̀̋̿̄̓n̿͂ͩ͂ͮ̔̆͏͎͍͕̜͎̺̯͈̼̩̣̥̬͡͞ͅͅv̴̨̙̼̤̼͙͖̫̖̺̹̠̹̦́͌͑̓̆̂ͯ̑̈̏ͭo̢̫̲̙̺̬̤̲̳ͨ̐ͦ̽͛ͮ͛́͂ͣ͂ͮ͆͑̍̀ͯ̕͟k̵̨̫̙̤͙̹̫͚͈̪͇͓͈̫̬̥͕̱͎̜̉̔ͬͭͦ̓͐ͫ̋̋ͥ̋̀̕͟è̢̛͑͋͐̀̏ͣ̏ͬ̒̌͌́̚͘͝͏̟̞͇̘̤̼̮̤͍͚̫̤͚̰ ̶̧̮̗̣̫͇̦͎̮̤̗͙̗̳͎̺͆̉̈ͭ̽̈́̌̽ͥ̾͑̀̚̚͘͟ͅͅt̸͓͉̩́̓̓ͮ̇̈̆ͣ̀ͪͬ͑̅ͣ̍h̸̡̧ͧ͑̐̂ͥ̄̃̂̄́͋ͨ͑̓̆͋̚͏̸̟̣̤̺͔̘̞̦̖͖̣̺̱̜͔̗̫̰ͅȇ̡͇͎͎̩̮̟̖̖̤̦̜͍̱̇ͨ̃̈́̄̑ͦͭ̚͞ͅ ̛̼̤̟̩̦̻̤̙̥̬̠̩̙̙̱͚͕ͫ͐̏ͥ̄ͧͧͭ̔̆͐̋͘h̶̵̜̤͓̹̰ͣ̄͗́́i̝͕̘̗͉͚̰͓̮͕̣͒̂̒ͨ̽ͫ̎ͪͦ́̕͝ͅv̧̙̞̣̳͍̟̖͚̻̝͈ͧ͊ͫ͋ͩͫ̍͋̏̽ͤ̀͝͞ͅẻ̢͓̣̰͔̟͎̥̻̤̲̟̣̜̄̈́̌͛̌̄͢͞ͅ-̨̡͆̓̌̎̉̑҉͚̝̗m̨̛͎̬͉̯̽ͥͫ̇ͦ̒̿̎́͒́̚͡͠ỉ̧̡͖͙̙͕͔̲ͩ́ͣ͐ͧ͑̊̾̒͑̅͗̊́̎̚n̠̮̜̝̜̤̰̻̘͖̦͚̼ͫ̄͐͗ͣ́͢͜d̡̛̳͕̬̫̯̩͕̰̖̟̲͕͙ͭ̅̓ͥ͛ͨ͒ͯ͌̚ͅͅ ̟̜̳̫͕̺͎̺̲̗̋̐̀͛͑̅̅͛̾̈́̀̚͞͠r̸̯̥͚̟̰͉͎͓̖͉͂̎̅̐ͫͧ͛ͯ͜ë́̎͂̆ͥͩ͟͏̰̤̳͓̩͉̲̣̠͍͔̗̦̬̱̯p̽ͧ͒͗ͣ̿̆̄̑͏̘̜̥̠̜̥̘̲̮̹̤̪̦͕͇͓͞r̴͓̼̺̰̹͙͉̦͚̞̤͕̭̦̈́ͫ̔̂̓̆̒͗͛̿̑̉̿̓ͤ̏̇̀̚͘͘͢é̴̢̛̖̗̖̤ͧ̽͑ͨ̒̌̍ͭ̑̋̃̒ͫ̀͡ş̶͉͚̠̠͇͓̬̙͚̖̝͓͕̤̟́̂̏ͧͩ͌͑͐ͣ͌͌̄̾̿ȩ̢͈̗̝͍ͨ̒͗ͭ̔̈͆ͫ̔ͨ̈́́̊ͣ̃̎̀͝͝n̸̟͔̺̠̺̓̑̏͐ͩͬ̏̈́̌͒́̏ͥ̌̍͊ͧ̀̚͜͞͞tͮ̾͒̇̐ͩ͆̓ͣ҉̢̤͖̩͕̬̮͚͙̖͕̬̘̙͘͠ͅĩ̡̬̙̙̯̩͋̋̄n̡̡̊̐͌ͣ̍̒̽ͩͫ͌ͦ̚͝͏̳̻̞͓̗̹̪̜̘̰̠̟͈̮̲̳̜g̵̎̓́̃ͮ̍̏̈̄ͧ̈́̐̔̏ͤͭͨ҉̛̘̰̘̟̬̝̰̜̗̼ͅͅ ̸̦̞͓̟͉̫͔̦̰̝͈̩̳̞̼̮̩̬͕̿ͩ͗̂̌̐ͭ͟͞c̳̻͚̻̩̻͉̯̄̏͑̋͆̎͐ͬ͑͌́͢h̵͔͈͍͇̪̯͇̞͖͇̜͉̪̪̤̙ͧͣ̓̐̓ͤ͋͒ͥ͑̆͒̓͋̑́͞ǎ̡̮̤̤̬͚̝͙̞͎̇ͧ͆͊ͅo̴̲̺͓̖͖͉̜̟̗̮̳͉̻͉̫̯̫̍̋̿̒͌̃̂͊̏̈̏̿ͧ́ͬ̌ͥ̇̓̀͢͜s̵̵̘̹̜̝̘̺̙̻̠̱͚̤͓͚̠͙̝͕͆̿̽ͥ̃͠͡.̔̈́ͤͣͪ̅̎̄̽ͩͪ͛̓̂̂̑͒҉̤͍͔̲̣̜͕̺͕͇̖͓̺̦̺́̀͢

Which reads (without the diacritics) as 'To invoke the hive mind representing chaos.'

The first diacritic he uses is the normal acute accent for the e to make it an é which does belong in ''résumé''. However, the second diacritic he uses is an {{w|Umlaut (linguistics)|umlaut}} on the u making it into ü, which is not part of the word. ''Ü'' typically represents the {{w|close front rounded vowel}} /y/, pronounced similar to the <ee> in "See" but with rounded lips. Ü can be found in languages such as {{w|German language|German}} and {{w|Turkish language|Turkish}}; however, in French ''ü'' is not used in this way since the diacritic-less ''u'' already represents this sound. German has a word spelt as ''Resümee'', but the meaning is not the same but rather conclusions or abstracts.

Cueball then goes all in on the last e which, like the first e, is supposed to have an acute accent. This e has a {{w|cedilla}} (as in ȩ), a {{w|Ring (diacritic)|ring}} (as in e̊), three acute accents, and is topped off by a {{w|breve}} (as in ĕ). In total, six diacritics are used on this e alone.

Some languages—notably Vietnamese—{{w|Vietnamese alphabet|can use more than one diacritic per letter}}, but usually only two (for example, ṏ). This is because in Vietnamese diacritics can serve two functions: the aforementioned modifying sound values as well as to indicate {{w|Tone (linguistics)|tone}}. Using multiple diacritics in the comic's fashion makes little sense though it is reminiscent of (the aforementioned) [http://stackoverflow.com/q/6579844/256431 Zalgo text].

There are also three acute accents over the last period. Diacritics over punctuation is not something that is ever used.

So for a word that is supposed to have two diacritics, Cueball uses eight, plus three for the period.

In the title text "not my forté" is supposed to mean that it is not one of Randall's strength or talent. However, to obtain this meaning {{Wiktionary|forte}} should not have an acute diacritic over the e, thus proving Randall's point that it is not his forte to use diacritics. This is a form of {{w|hyperforeignism}}, where people spell loan words or use pronunciations that they believe is more faithful to the language it comes from instead of the "English" one, even though the "English" one is actually more correct. Due to its similarity with other words from French such as café, some people believe that forte is also spelled with a diacritic on the ending E.

The title text may be a reference to the ''[[what if|what if?]]'' released a week before this comic, {{what if|145|Fire from moonlight}}, in which note 9 reads, "My résumé says étendue is my forté" (with the same error on "forte"). It is possible that noticing his mistake was the inspiration for this comic. Also {{Wiktionary|étendue}} can be written without the accent as {{Wiktionary|etendue#English|etendue}} and the meaning is only written on this page in the Wiktionary. It means property of the light in an optical system which makes sense in the context of the note. However, it means something different in French where it either refers to size or range as a noun or as a verb is the past participle of {{Wiktionary|étendre#French|étendre}} meaning stretch or spread. The most correct way of writing the sentence he tried to write would only have involved the accent on résumé: "My résumé says etendue is my forte." Thus again making it clear that Randall has it right when he writes: "Using diacritics correctly is not my forté."

If there actually has been someone who corrected Randall's mistake in the what if?, then there could be an extra pun hidden in the title. Those who criticized Randall's use of accents, would thus become dia''critics''!

Comic [[1209: Encoding]] also references an absurd use of diacritics, and later a possible movie called ''Combining Diacritical Marks'' was mentioned in [[1857: Emoji Movie]], a direct reference to this comic.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball sitting in front of his lap top typing. The text above him is the one he is typing. The last word résumé has too many diacritics. The u has an umlaut (as in ü) and the last é has no less than six diacritics; a cedilla below (as in ȩ), a ring above (as in e̊ ), then three acute accents above the ring (as in é), and finally they are topped off by a breve (as in ĕ). Also, the last full stop has three accents "´" above it:]

:Cueball (typing): Attached please fīnd my résümȩ̊́́́̆.́́́

:[Caption below the panel:]
:I usually leave out diacritics when I type, so I make up for it by occasionally adding a whole bunch at once.

{{comic discussion}}

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User talk:Jeff

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== ParserFunctions ==

Hi Jeff,

Just thought I'd run this up the flagpole... any thought about installing the ParserFunctions extension? I think this site could benefit from a few templates that would aid in indexing/categorizing the entries as content is migrated, and ParserFunctions would make some really impressive things possible... but installing any extension or not would be up to you.

Also, do you have any feelings about us users creating templates in the Template namespace, which we could use to maintain the content? Just wanted to get your thumbs-up before/if I did something like that. Just want to play nice. Love the site, and the new wiki format.

- PT [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 03:05, 1 August 2012 (EDT)
:ParserFunctions are awesome, yup! --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]'' [[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]] 06:56, 1 August 2012 (EDT)
::{{done}} Yes to both. I have enabled ParserFunctions and Templates sound like a great idea. IronyChef, please send me an email at the address on the blog and I'll make you an admin if necessary to edit templates. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 08:03, 1 August 2012 (EDT)

== Extension:Variable ==
Just wondering what you thought about adding the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Variables Variables extension]. I'm toying with revising {{tl|LATESTCOMIC}} to not be so expensive (both in terms of template expansion, and ongoing maintenance.) I could do that now, but the wiki would have to re-expand and re-evaluate the same expression about six times, being slightly counter-productive. -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 14:54, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
:: any thoughts ... up, down, sideways? Thanks! -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 15:34, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
::: I'm up for it... Let me get it installed on the wiki side when I get a chance. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 23:13, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

== Bugging you again.... ==

Could you take a look at [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?limit=10000&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Philosopher&namespace=8&year=&month=-1] and tell me if I'm thinking in about the same way as you are here? Also, I've brought up [[MediaWiki:Tagline]] and [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]], as it'd be cool to have a tagline. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]'' [[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]] 10:46, 1 August 2012 (EDT)
:With you 100% on the File Delete reasons. Thanks. I agree also about having a tagline. What do you think it should be? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 11:13, 1 August 2012 (EDT)
::Nothing's coming to mind right now. Perhaps someone else will think of something. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]'' [[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]] 17:54, 2 August 2012 (EDT)
Discussion continued at [[Explain XKCD:Community portal/Proposals#Tagline]].

== Automatic Import ==
Moved to [[Explain XKCD:Community portal/Proposals#Automatic Import]]. (Header left to avoid breaking links.) --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]'' [[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]] 00:30, 4 August 2012 (EDT)

== Please watch [[Explain XKCD:Community portal/Administrators' noticeboard]] ==

I'd like to ask that the admins consider adding [[Explain XKCD:Community portal/Administrators' noticeboard]] to their [[wikipedia:Help:Watching pages|watchlists]]. On a similar note, I've just started a discussion there about spammers. -''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]'' [[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]] 02:02, 4 August 2012 (EDT)

== Images from Wikimedia Commons and SVG ==
Please set <code>$wgUseInstantCommons = true;</code> in the wiki's LocalSettings.php, so we can use images from Wikimedia Commons without having to reupload them here.
Also, I'd be neat if you could [[mw:Manual:Image Administration#SVG|enable svg images]]. Thanks! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 04:20, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
: {{done}}, Instant Commons is on. Will need a little more work to get SVG images to work. What renderer to do you suggest I use? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:05, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
:: That'll depend on what you have available in your server. They say there that ImageMagick seems to be an acceptable choice, but rsvg seems to be the best one if the dependencies can be sorted out. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 13:20, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

== Search suggestions ==

Hi,

could you please set $wgEnableMWSuggest [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableMWSuggest] to true? This enables search suggestions for the search field, and often this helps you to skip the search results. --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]] ([[User talk:SlashMe|talk]]) 09:10, 4 August 2012 (EDT)
:{{done}} OK, this is has been added to the LocalSettings. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:06, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

== Time zone ==

Please set the wiki to UTC (<tt>$wgLocaltimezone = "UTC";</tt> in LocalSettings.php), as it's the most neutral option for our international community. In any case, each user can choose their time zone in their preferences.
:{{done}} Ok, set. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

== Short urls, site logo, lowercase xkcd ==

Hi,
I'm not sure if you tried it but http://shorturls.redwerks.org is a great (and simple :D) tool to implement clean urls with mediawiki. That would make urls much nicer around here.

Also, if you could, please take a look at [[Explain XKCD:Community portal/Proposals#Naming conventions]], where your assistance is needed for some server changes. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 15:31, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

:Hi again :) just to remind you about the short urls thing. I think it would be great if we could have wiki links in the form "explainxkcd.com/wiki/link_title". It might be necessary to move the wiki into a different folder name than "wiki", but that's just a matter of renaming the folder and changing <code>$wgScriptPath</code> in LocalSettings.php accordingly. The link above makes things really straighforward, it should really only take you a few minutes to set everything up.
:Another cool thing that could be done is set up a server redirect so that links in the form of explainxkcd.com/number would point to the comics in the wiki instead of returning a 404 error (for instance, http://explainxkcd.com/123 would point to http://explainxkcd.com/wiki/123). That way, we could replicate xkcd's own url system for comics and people could simply type explainxkcd.com/123 and get the explanation for the corresponding comic. This redirect can probably be set up in the hosting company's web interface, but in case it can't, let me know if you need any help. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 22:03, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
::Hi Waldir - I'll work on the short URL thing. I want that to work for sure. With regards to the redirect, I have been working on it for a while and I have a few .htaccess files and etc that don't work. I'll be grateful for the help on it. Please send me an email if you know how to get it done. This would also allow anyone from xkcd.com/435 to just add explain and go to the comic explanation. Very helpful. Been working on it unsuccessfully for a while. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 01:41, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
:::Ugh, it must be my hosting because I did all of the shorturls correctly it just sent it to a 404 page for the site over and over again. The url seemed to be the right one, but didn't send it to the right location. It should NOT be this difficult. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 02:25, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

== wgCapitalLinks ==

Hi Jeff! When you have a few spare minutes, please add the following to LocalSettings.php:
$wgCapitalLinks = false;
This allows page titles not to be automatically capitalized by the software, which is important for filenames and for some comic titles such as [[s/keyboard/leopard/]]. Cheers, [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 21:34, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
:{{done}} --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 01:37, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
::...and this broke our templates (and maybe [[Special:RecentChanges]]?). See [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]. Can't we just style the page titles so they appear as though they aren't capitalized when they really are? (As done at [[wikipedia:Xkcd]], using the DISPLAYTITLE magic word (called through [[wikipedia:Template:DISPLAYTITLE]]).) --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]'' [[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]] 04:42, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
:::Looks like transition pains would be inevitable. I think everything is sorted out for now. See the Admin requests thread for details. As for using DISPLAYTITLE, I understand the rationale, but this is xkcd and attention to capitalization is necessary in several pages, and I believe we'd rather use a complete solution (so that pages actually have the correct title) rather than hacking what is shown to viewers. In any case, we shouldn't have many problems in the future because of this; People will only capitalize the first letter of a title when it's actually necessary; otherwise, lazyness/convenience makes us all use lowercase everywhere (besides, redirects can be used just in case, such as {{tl|yesno}} → {{tl|YesNo}}. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 09:06, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

== External Images ==

Has there actually been a decision on external images? Or is it just to be decided later?  [[User:Grep|grep]][[User_talk:Grep|talk]] 
: No decision yet. What do you think? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 21:16, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
::Well, the whitelisting seems an OK idea. This would help you save space on the servers that you are hosting on, so that's a plus. I say go for whitelisting.  [[User:Grep|grep]][[User_talk:Grep|talk]]  Mostly I am wondering because I created a PHP script that creates an image to display the results of a poll (like on the Moving the Wiki topic in Proposals). For my situation any method of something external being placed on this site will work.
::'''I just''' got an idea... what if there was a group of moderators that check external images and approve them. The more approvals a person gets, the more "reliable" they are considered to be... ?  [[User:Grep|grep]][[User_talk:Grep|talk]] 

== Short Link Problem Fix? ==

Is <code>mod_rewrite</code> installed and enabled? 
[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache MW ShortURL] 
Are all of the config files (including the wiki one) set up?

 [[User:Grep|grep]][[User_talk:Grep|talk]] 

== New admin please? ==

This is a bit forthright of me, but nothing appears to be being done about it. Would you read this [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Spampage Rampage]] and comment on it? Thanks, [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] and the community 17:47, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

== Small change ==

Hi Jeff! Long time no see. Look, could you add
:<code>$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['autopatrol'] = true;</code>
to LocalSettings.php? That will allow edits by [[mw:auto-confirmed|auto-confirmed]] users not to be marked with a red exclamation mark in recent changes so we can more quickly spot edits that might need reviewing. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 02:16, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

:Btw while you're at it, please also add
::<code>$wgAllowUserJs = true;</code>
::<code>$wgAllowUserCss = true;</code>
:So users can make their own scripts and styles to enhance the wiki (I need that, for instance, to test stuff without affecting anyone else, before integrating them on site-wide javascript/css pages) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:52, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

{{done}} and {{done}} --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 19:55, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

:Thanks! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 19:57, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

:: Sorry, I forgot a small detail: it is necessary to set up the following so that "auto-confirmed" doesn't mean "any registered user":
:: <code>$wgAutoConfirmAge = 60*60*24*3 // accounts become auto-confirmed after 3 days</code>
:: <code>$wgAutoConfirmCount = 10 // ...and 10 edits</code>
:: Cheers, [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 21:32, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

::: {{done}} --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 21:49, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

:::: Thanks, again. Also, since the wiki didn't break, I take it that you noticed the missing semicolons which I stupidly forgot to include at the end of the lines, and added them. Sorry for the slip-up. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:31, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
::::: No worries, I know that much at least! :) --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 17:36, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Did you by any chance write "auto patrol" instead of "autopatrol"? [[Special:ListGroupRights]] suggests so, and if that's the case, that explains why the changes don't seem to have had the effects I expected from them (edits by auto-patrolled users still marked with the red exclamation mark in Special:RecentChanges). Could you check that the line reads exactly <code>$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['autopatrol'] = true;</code>? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:54, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
: That's what I thought I put even though autocorrect wanted to change it. Can't look now, will have a look when I get home. ---[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 17:55, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
:: Any news? No pressure, I'm just curious :) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 15:34, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
::: Bah - I keep forgetting when I get home. I'll try to get it done this weekend. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 17:35, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
:::: Much delayed, but {{done}} --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 02:50, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
::::: Thanks, Jeff. I'll let you know if there's any further issues, but I believe everything should be working now. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 03:34, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

== Links to category pages ==

I couldn't help but notice the number of your edits to your page. You can link to category pages by putting a colon in front of "Category". <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Pages to delete]]</nowiki></code> produces [[:Category:Pages to delete]]. It also doesn't add the category to that page, it just links to it. Cheers, [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:30, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
: Oh geez. You saw that? That's a little embarrassing with not knowing what to do, I kept trying to figure out how to put the link there. Thanks for the help! I couldn't find that information anywhere. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 17:31, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

::When I had to learn about that trick the edits on that page looked fairly similar. I eventually found the right page [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links] (ctrl+f "category", it's buried) and managed it. I have the Recent Changes page set to auto-refresh every minute. I see a few things. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:43, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

== Your opinion? ==

Please comment [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#We need more maintainers|here]]. Cheers, [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:21, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
:Update: we've been offered help by [[mediawiki:User:Dantman|an experienced MediaWiki developer]], I think we can finally solve the server-side issues now! Please take a look at the thread linked above. [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 20:07, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

== I am really dumb ==

and this morning, while creating a user name, I goofed it and wrote .mau, (with a trailing comma) instead of .mau. (with a trailing dot, which is my trademark). I know that a bureaucrat on MediaWiki can change a username which had few edits (my own edits are three including this one): could you do this, or at least delete this username so that I may recreate it without leaving a dead one? TIA, [[User:.mau,|.mau,]] ([[User talk:.mau,|talk]]) 15:09, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
:You can actually change your signature to .mau. if you want, to mask that for now. Just make a page called User:.mau,/sig and craft your signature to your liking, then go to my preferences at the top and set your sig to <nowiki>{{SUBST:User:.mau,/sig}}</nowiki>. If you want an example, [[User:Lcarsos/sig]] is a near-vanilla and quite clean example of a custom sig, while [[User:Omega/sig]] and my sig, [[User:Davidy22/sig]] are slightly more tricked-out options. Wikipedia's guidelines to signature crafting are {{w|Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing_your_signature|here.}} '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 15:53, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
::ok, thanks! [[User:.mau,|.mau.]] ([[User talk:.mau,|talk]]) 09:55, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
:::Aw, that's it? No bling or anything? Meeehhh. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:16, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
:(to Jeff) I believe user renaming is not possible in vanilla mediawiki. An extension is required: [[mw:Extension:Renameuser]] --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 18:21, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
::I find a bit disturbing to have a "wrong" username, especially because I may not remember it somewhen (yes, the word does not exist, but I like its sound); but I don't need any flashy signature, so I just changed the traling comma to a dot. --[[User:.mau,|.mau.]] ([[User talk:.mau,|talk]]) 14:09, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

==/wiki/==
Now that the site apparently redirects to the wiki, could the entire wiki URL just be explainxkcd.com, without the trailing wiki? It's mostly for cleanliness, but also to throw off the spambots for a while. Those accursed spam happy bots. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:29, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
: Sounds good, I'm working on that part next. It is next on my "to-do" list complete some URL work like that. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 18:05, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
::''nag''. Also, the spam is becoming an issue. A pretty big issue. Time to switch captchas? '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:04, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
::: OK - sounds good to me, any ones you recommend? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 13:33, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
:::: I don't remember which captcha the wiki uses, but I know securimage and recaptcha are two very competent options. Alternately, you could use [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ConfirmEdit] to screen anon edits. Much of the spam seems to be automated, so questycaptcha should screen out most of the chaff. Just simple questions, like "What webcomic does this site explain" or "Who created XKCD" should be sufficient to screw up our current spammers. Also, rm /wiki/ plx. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:41, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
:::::Confirm edit is in and Recaptcha is out. Let's try that. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 14:11, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::The questions appear to be case-sensitive. To avoid frustration, could you add a notice to every question saying that the answers have to be in all lower/upper case? I got "What's the name of this wiki" wrong a bunch of times, and I think it's due to capitalization. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:30, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
:::::::Ok - cool. I changed it to $wgSitename instead of just writing it out. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 14:32, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::::If we get no spam tomorrow, I will hold a party in your talk page. Oh, and /wiki/. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:38, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::I'll just hijack this thread and ask: Isn't it time Davidy22 got admin tools? It's long overdue. And please promote Lcarsos‏‎ to bureaucrat, so he can make new admins if needed. And seconded: <code>/wiki/</code> ! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 02:39, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::::::Could you also put confirmEdit in general page creation for anonymous users? There's still a couple of spam pages being made that don't actually advertise anything. There hasn't been an account creation in a long time, so I think we've killed off the spam accounts. The rate of spam has definitely dropped significantly ever since we switched to confirmEdit. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:42, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::::::We've just had a surge of pure griefer spam. Anons who don't insert any links, they're just throwing spam at us out of malice. Could you make anonymous users have to pass through confrimEdit to create pages? Thanks. On a side note, what's the ratio in terms of file size between current explanation pages to logs and diffs? '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:53, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::::Wow those suck. Wiping out whole pages with anon edits. I can't change the settings from here, but I'll do it when I get home. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by filesize? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 15:51, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::::::::Eh, how much space do explanations and images take up on your hard drive when compared to the space that log files and diffs take up? '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 16:01, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::::::Click a thing, check out the URL. I be posting this here instead of DMs because somthing like this has been requested for a pretty long time. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:55, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
::::::::::::: I'm confused. There's a lot going on in this thread. Want to break it out into its own header? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:48, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
::::::::::::::Mkay '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 19:47, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

== Promote Davidy22 ==

:''Breaking this discussion out from where it was, because it merits its own section. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]])''
I'll just hijack this thread and ask: Isn't it time Davidy22 got admin tools? It's long overdue. And please promote lcarsos‏‎ to bureaucrat, so he can make new admins if needed. And seconded: <code>/wiki/</code> ! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 02:39, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

:'''Heartily Agree''' on promoting Davidy22, he's almost always more on top of spam patrol than I am these days (burn-out for the lose). I'm not sure I can speak for my own promotion without sounding self-serving and power-hungry. However, in my few spare moments this semester I am looking closely at getting a bot up and running to automate the clean up of spam (mostly because manual spam patrol is the most soul-sucking and disheartening activity I've ever done), so it would be nice to be able to get a bot account promoted to bot status without misrepresenting it as my account. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 18:13, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
:: Davidy22 is up to admin (honestly, I thought he was already one, so no issue there on my end.) and lcarsos has been updated to bureaucrat because we should have more redundancy there. Also, create a bot account and let me know what it is and i'll give it bot rights. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 18:36, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
:: Or now, you can do it! :) --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 18:41, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
:::WOO, power! '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:42, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

== Small ConfirmEdit change ==

Can you change the line:
<pre>$wgCaptchaTriggers['create'] = false;</pre>
to true? I think this would solve most of our bot vandalism/griefing problems. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 21:19, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
:: {{done}} I changed 'edit' to true as well since we've seen a bunch when editing user's talk pages. We will see if I have to move that back to false. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:16, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

== DeleteOldRevisions ==

There's a script built into mediawiki called DeleteOldRevisions.php that seems to have deprecated the deletehistory plugin. A link to the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php manual page.] A hard drive upgrade would be apt for the future though. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|purple|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:15, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
: I'm looking into it. I'm not sure how the wiki got back up and running without me running the update. I'll try the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DeleteHistory] and see if that can help in the meantime. The expanded HD might be a no-go, but I'll see on that too. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 01:27, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

==Server Hardware==
The website is getting really slow and throwing internal errors all over the place, and it looks like both the main page and the page for the newest comic [[1190: Time]] are climbing rapidly in views. If one ambiguous comic is hitting us like a DDoS, we're going to get it in the shorts if Randall ever actually acknowledges our existence directly, or some other geeky media outlet posts a link to us. Is there a donate button anywhere? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|purple|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:18, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
: We certainly can get a Donate button. We may need to migrate the server to get it upgraded. This is one of those big days, I guess. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:39, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
:: How about a Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 12:37, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
:::Kickstarter and Indiegogo are one-time things. No good for this. I recommend modifying the donate button so that there is a PayPal "Subscribe" button near it so people can also do small monthly subscriptions. I recommend a dropdown with $1, $2, $5, $10, $20 options.
:::Does 1&1 give you stats like how much bandwidth (or rather how much data) you are using. That could have an effect on where is best to get the new hosting; Rackspace Cloud, Linode, AWS, or even a real server with access to other network options like paying for actual Mbps bandwidth with unlimited data.
:::When you get a server I'd like to properly set it up with varnish, nginx, apc (or Zend_Optimizer+ considering it's going to be part of php 5.5), memcached, and perhaps php-fpm instead of mod_php. Varnish will allow anonymous pages to be cached hopefully reducing the load issues. And nginx should serve out static things better than Apache. [[User:Dantman|Dantman]] ([[User talk:Dantman|talk]]) 05:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
:::: Regarding the Paypal button, besides the subscribe option, I would recommend removing the credit card logos, as they make it too wide for the sidebar and not fit the design well. Besides, I personally think they give it kind of a corporate feel; instead, a simple "donate" button, while still recognizable as paypal's, feels simpler and more "personal", for lack of a better word.
:::: Also, I think you should place it above the AdSense block, since that makes it more visible, and prioritizes a form of supporting the site that people have direct, active control over, rather than the passive, choice-less (modulo AdBlock) AdSense.
:::: And also capitalize "donate" in the section title, to match the other titles ("Navigation", "Toolbox", etc.)
:::: Since we're at it: maybe more donation options would make sense: [//flattr.com Flattr], [//gittip.com Gittip], [//tiptheweb.org/ TipTheWeb], and possibly [//bitcoin.org/ Bitcoins].
:::: Finally, is it possible to make the AdSense background transparent, or at least the same as the site background of #F3F3F3? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 14:15, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
:::::Is it possible to add the ad and donate buttons without including a section title? Minimizing unused space is gooood. Also, I noticed that you installed the deletehistory plugin, but it's trying to use another version of PHP that's installed on the server. deleteoldrevisions.php in the maintenance folder oughta work fine, though it'd probably be apt to run it over the weekend when we're not expecting absurd floods of visitors like we are now. We may need it too, after we've filled up the hard drive again with archives of Time.'''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|purple|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:39, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
:::::: Yes, it is possible for me to edit, I will have to go into the settings for each since I used extensions for them. I hate the credit card things too. Will take a look at all options tonight.
:::::: The Deletehistory plugin doesn't work, sadly because of the PHP version. Hopefully, when we migrate, it will be on a newer version and that will work. Hopefully, we will have more disk space too... --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]])
::::: Hey Jeff. Could you change the width of the paypal donate button so that it matches the google ads and the bitcoin donate button? Maybe using a custom button rather than the paypal-provided one?
::::: Also, any news regarding the possibility of changing the background of the google ads? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:21, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
:::::: It did not work out with Google ads for a reason they will not disclose to me, but I'll work on the buttons and the banner ad. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:11, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

== Everything's good ==

Except for the (currently) occasional server error, I have no problems.

I've turned on HotCat and Popups, imported wikEdDiff and my HideTopContribs, all of which make me fairly efficient at watching changes.

A minor request would be the Redirect toolbar button.

[[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 17:13, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

:When you turn off enwiki's "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" all of the toolbar buttons explainxkcd has are in the same order (it skips Math) and the very next one is Redirect #R. It seems to be defined at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js&action=edit
:I've tried adding just Redirect #R myself [[User:Markhurd/common.js|here]], but something's going wrong. (And I should be sleeping!)
::Seeing as it is only one button I wanted, I simplified the code down to calling addButton directly and it is now working fine. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 13:07, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

:Re being an Admin: Yes, please, as long as you note this would be my first actual Admin bit. (I'm a Bureaucrat on another MW wiki so I could give myself Admin rights whenever I wanted.) [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 19:39, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

== Sidebar ads ==

Hi, we're having a discussion about the sidebar ads on [[Talk:Main Page#sidebar ads?]]. --[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 08:42, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

== Economic transparency ==

Hi! I made a request on economic transparency on the proposals page. –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 22:05, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

==Thumbnails are not working==
I'm relatively new here but I think each picture should get it's proper thumbnail when the original is to large to embed. Mediawiki is using some applications in the background maybe not available here. But there are some workarounds. And since "onlinehome.us" is well secured I still do even not know what OS is running in the background. But whatever the OS is, it should be solvable.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:13, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

== Last missing page ==

Hi, I'm hoping you don't mind about my adds to Natalie Dee. I was working on that at the same time.
BTW: Can I help you on that thumbnail issue? I really would be happy if it could fixed here.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:42, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
:: No problem on the Natalee Dee comic, I was just working on it because it was the last one, edit away. What's the thumbnail issue? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 21:43, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
:::Thanks for your reply. I am still talking about this: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Errors_and_symptoms#Image_Thumbnails_not_working_and.2For_appearing Image_Thumbnails_not_working]. I am sure there is a need to fix the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/LocalSettings.php LocalSettings.php]. Maybe some paths are wrong or it's just using wrong image tools. I can help on any OS except Apple computers.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:07, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

== Congratulations! ==

You just created the last unexplained comic of ''xkcd''! [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 23:38, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
: Thanks Greyson! --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 03:04, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

==Math==
A lot of comics have formulae in them. Could you set $wgUseTeX = true in LocalSettings.php? That lets us use latex in pages. It'd be useful for comics like yesterday's. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:12, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
:Yeah, this would be nice. But you have to install an extension, LaTex must be available, then compile something, and at least adjusting the LocalSettings.php config file. We also sill do not have all image features here. But I can help, Windows or Linux.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 13:55, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
:: I'll look into it. Let me know if you find an extension that will do the trick. Send me some links to anything that would help and I can get them set up. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 14:44, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
:::Go here [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math Extension:Math] and read the installation instructions first, it's not easy. For Fedora (Linux) there is a package called "mediawiki-math.x86_64" available. I will test this at my own computer.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:57, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
::::It's the hell, but I got a first crappy version at my local installation. I have had to install ''latex'' and ''ocaml'' packages and now its working, but it still renders many lines before the <nowiki><math></nowiki> tag, So it's still not usable for this site.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 14:35, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
===Seeing injected banner ads?===
I'm seeing banner ads (viewing on my iPad) that cover the actual banner of the site and never scroll out of view. It's as if they've been infected by a downstream server (ISP?). Anybody else? I'm in Wisconsin using TDS. Jeff M.
: That's terrible, I've got to fix that. bah. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 18:36, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
:: Is there a place I can email some screenshots? Jeff M.{{unsigned ip|69.130.242.120}}

== Full cache kills this page ==

Hi, it seems this page was not reachable for 15 hours again. The cache here has to be cleared sometimes, but since I can do it with my account I will create a script running once per day. 15 hours outage are bad, I try to avoid this in the future. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:50, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
:Which page was dead? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:11, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::The entire site was dead. Look here: [[Special:RecentChanges|Special:RecentChanges]]. My last post was at 23:44 yesterday, no actions here after my reset at 14:54 today. The site was dead. I'm not a hacker, but I'm a programmer and I used this base of knowledge to fix this problem. If you do need more details, please send me an email. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:25, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
::: Agreed. Tried to visit yesterday PM, but a lot of pages were spilling guts: user pages, category pages, no comic explanations (as far as I could tell with my limited browsing.) A chron-job script to keep that at bay would be good medicine, assuming it didn't have other side effects. [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 03:19, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
I will set up a cron job running once per day. Maybe this entry at the config file [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php LocalSettings.php] would be the better solution:
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
I'm using the MidnightCommander (Linux) for editing this file.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 12:11, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:::: Cache_None is already set in the LocalSettings. I believe this is usually a database error that we are getting. It usually resolves itself as I'm not able to resolve it myself. I believe that we are getting hit with a brute force attack at our database during those times because the database is totally unreachable. I'm working on moving to a new host where the database will be better protected. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:16, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::Cache_None or CACHE_NONE? This should be case sensitive. Nevertheless I did purge the cache and the site was instantly available again (after approx. 15 hours). Also Davidy22 explained that he did clear the cache to bring the site back. The error messages are misleading and not showing the real problem.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 12:43, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::: Yes, CACHE_NONE, sorry, I was typing fast. I've ran my clear cache script a few times when I've had that same problem and haven't seen results, so I'm glad we at least have something that's working. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 15:18, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::You are doing a great job, I feel I just have to say thanks! When the next outage does happen I will activate a small script, but for now I just try to avoid unnecessary traffic to this server.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 16:15, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::: Thanks Dgbrt! --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 18:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

== New host ==

Great job, but please check this link: <code>/wiki/</code>. I can browse the entire folder and more. It seems that "htaccess" should be renamed to ".htaccess".--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 08:32, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
: Oh geez. That's bad. Thanks! --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:02, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:: Should be good now. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:45, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

I found an other serious issue belonging to DNS entries:
Name: explainxkcd.com
Address: 108.162.198.131
Name: explainxkcd.com
Address: 108.162.199.131
This works fine because 108.162.'''198'''.131 is correct. But most DNS servers showing up with this result:
Name: explainxkcd.com
Address: 108.162.199.131
Name: explainxkcd.com
Address: 108.162.198.131
This just leads to the old server at 108.162.'''199'''.131. Check Google DNS server 8.8.8.8 with nslookup, the wrong IP is shown first.
--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:34, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
: Weird... I'll research. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 19:35, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
::Yes, it's weird. After I discovered this I did enter an entry for this at my local "/etc/hosts" file. But it seems most people can not access the new site.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:20, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
::One more: The logo on the left top is broken. ''style="background-image: url(/wiki/skins/common/images/explainxkcd.png)'' does not exist.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:53, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
::: Yea, what happened to that logo... it was there this morning. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 20:56, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
::::Oh, after a computer crash I'm back. Right now even the editor is broken here. I don't know if I can send this message. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:22, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::Ok, it does work, but all images for short cuts on top of the editor are also broken now. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:26, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::: The editor works fine for me, I'll research the images. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 21:27, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::It seems all links like "/wiki/skins/common/images/button_bold.png" are gone. Additionally I'm getting an JavaScript error "TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null". http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/skins/common/images/button_bold.png redirects me to http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page. Maybe you still get some content, maybe cache, from 108.162.199.131? Or is the real site now on that IP? Remember, I have had to restart my computer; most of my cache is gone and I'm just seeing the real page.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:48, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::: I fixed the images. I did that stupidly through the htaccess page. I've got to figure a better solution for what I'm trying to do to solve another problem. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 21:58, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::Looks great right now. So that DNS glitch seems to be the most worse problem right now.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:08, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::: I think DNS is still propagating with the updates from yesterday. Not every one has the correct information yet... those two DNS IPs are the load balancers, I believe. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 22:09, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::::Strange "load balancers", but it's working now on both IPs. Many thanks again for your hard work, you must have invested many hours on this migration. Let's see tomorrow if other users will be able to find this site again.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:30, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

== Please remove subaddressing from my account email [[user:tbc]] ==

Hi Jeff,

I requested a password reset, but I forgot that my account still has an old email registered: timc+explainxkcd@divide.net. My ISP, pcisys.net née divide.net, disabled subaddressing during an email upgrade earlier this year. If you will update that email to remove the plus sign so my account email is timc@divide.net, I will be able to reset my password. I was logged in from my iPad to write on the [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests#Please_remove_subaddressing_from_my_account_email_user:tbc|community portal]] page, but since I needed my password, which I have forgotten, to change it, I got stuck. – ''[[User:Tbc|tbc]] ([[User talk:Tbc|talk]]) 30 Oct 2013''
: You should be good to go now. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:07, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
:: I am. Thank you! – ''[[User:Tbc|tbc]] ([[User talk:Tbc|talk]]) 05:32, 8 November 2013 (UTC)''

== Forbidden ==

You don't have permission to access /wiki/ ([http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/ http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/]) on this server. I think a simple redirect would be a better solution.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:45, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
: Yup, that's on my list to work on. If you are knowledgable about htaccess files, feel free to send me an email. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 13:48, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
::The first great point is: The error doesn't show the server, version, etc... A hacker can't figure what exploits are available.
::At my local test installation (Apache, Linux) it's covered by the general server configuration. And each folder simply does contain a proper "index.php" file from mediawiki doing the correct redirects.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:19, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
::: Fixed. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:02, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
::::Great job, thanks.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:18, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

== Re: the latest puzzle ==

I don't know how to contribute in the discussion section on the page, so I'm throwing ideas at you.

Just quick thoughts.
I feel like Cpl klinger and the water type kingler is too solid a connection to ignore even though I can't really use it.
Kingler was owned in the series by Ash.
Ash is a three letter word and the last three letters of the phrase monstermash.
Monsterm=8 letters so the first block ash=3 letters in the second block.
Monsterm is about the monster.com thing, therefore purloined. It's a double reference, the .co has been purloined from the purloined website.
Then blastoise -3, or rather blastois3 - 3 (mocking the common password meme of replacing letters with numbers)
So the last password, which is super hard to guess and well chosen even with the clue is, blastoisash? It's a feasibly memorable password that would not be quickly forgotten by a pokemon fan while still being hard to guess.
Can you think of a way to check it? Maybe go into the old command line xkcd and try it as a password?

==URLs==
I made them marginally shorter. Can you spot the difference? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 19:47, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
: Uh, I can't. Does that make me a bad person? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 22:17, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
::If you go to any page, you should see that it says index.php/<page name> instead of index.php?title=<page name>. Small change, I'm trying to kill the index.php bit too, but I think I suck at regexes. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 22:31, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
::: Regexes are the WORST --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 22:45, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
::::Regexes are great, but they are hard to implement for a specific solution. But Goooogle helps. And a question to Davidy22: Why you do not present your enhancement here? --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:10, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
:::::I set $wgUsePathInfo to true in mediawiki settings, and here's our lines for redirecting URLs in general:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif)$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^/wiki(/.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wiki/index.php$1 [L]

:::::Followed and preceded by htaccess commands that do other things. The broken line is commented out because it doesn't work. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 23:32, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
::::::Uhh, it seems I still do not understand the secret. [http://www.xkcd.com/1301] to [http://www.explainxkcd.com/1301] works fine for me, but I do not understand that [NC] here so far:
:::::::RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif)$ [NC]
::::::maybe
:::::::RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif)$[NC]
::::::is better. But this means every request not matching those three image extensions would fit that rewrite rule. This is just haaardly regex. The second line is just a comment you probably did remove. I can't see the rewrite rule. And testing for a simple number x, xx, xyz, or xyzz would be better.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 00:23, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
::::::::That's an entirely different rewriterule that does actually work and was deployed long ago that I didn't print here. I'm talking about a general-purpose rewrite that redirects from explainxkcd.com/wiki/<page name>, which I attempted to create in the commented-out line. The image exclusion is to stop image display requests from also being redirected, and I don't think you quite get how rewrite rules work. Not *every* page is fitted to every rewrite rule; the first half of the rule describes the conditions in which the rule should be applied. And yeah, just plugging in page names works, but I kinda don't want to hard-code every possible page redirect into our htaccess file. That's what the regex is for. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:51, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

== /r/xkcd sitenotice ==

Could you please remove the sitenotice linking to and promoting /r/xkcd? [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] added it to the sitenotice and cross-posted to reddit. Unfortunately, h/r/xkcd sub is controlled by /u/soccer, who links to racist, xenophobic and misogynistic content regularly. [http://www.reddit.com/r/anonymous123421/comments/1w8aie/petition_to_reinstate_uwyboth_as_a_mod_of_rxkcd/cezp63m Randall has spoken in support] of a petition for /u/soccer to be removed as a mod. /r/xkcdcomic is a non-hateful alternative, one that Randall supports, and it has more users than /r/xkcd.

I did comment on Davidy22's talk page, but I thought I should drop you a line as well. Thanks, [[User:LadyMondegreen|LadyMondegreen]] ([[User talk:LadyMondegreen|talk]]) 13:55, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
: Hi LadyMondegreen did he change it already? I didn't touch it yet, but it shows /r/xkcdcomic for me. I agree with you completely and I'm sorry if we linked to the wrong subreddit, even momentarily. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 14:50, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
::It never linked to /r/xkcd. I think LadyMondegreen misread it or something. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:41, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
:::Yeah, that was my bad. Someone pointed it out to me on IRC and I guess I didn't look closely enough. Sorry about that. [[User:LadyMondegreen|LadyMondegreen]] ([[User talk:LadyMondegreen|talk]]) 19:36, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

== MediaWiki question ==

Out of curiosity, do you ever have a plan to add other skin options, like Monobook? [[User:Schiffy|Schiffy]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy|Speak to me]]|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|What I've done]]) 21:40, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
:A fair number of other skins were cut because they broke our sidebar, and others were cut cuz they were ugly and no one used them. If there's demand for them, they could be brought back though; you just want Monobook? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 18:06, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
::Mainly, yes. From a personal standpoint, I find Vector fairly ugly. CologneBlue and Modern aren't much better. Monobook is my preferred alternative. I can't speak for majority of users on explainxkcd, but I do know there are a number of people who prefer Monobook to other skins. [[User:Schiffy|Schiffy]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy|Speak to me]]|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|What I've done]]) 21:56, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
:::Fair enough. Monobook is back. Tell me if anything is wonky with our customisations, and I'll fix it.'''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:56, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

== IP Address glitch ==

There appears to be a problem with the way that this site fetches users IP addresses! My IP address, as confirmed by whatismyip.com and other wikis, is 24.15.68.186! However, this site believes it to be 108.162.237.130! When I look up the incorrect IP address, it appears to be registered to CloudFlare. Is there anything you can do to resolve the situation? I don't want to get confused with a spambot and accidentally blocked! Thank you! [[User:The Wikiator|The Wikiator]] ([[User talk:The Wikiator|talk]]) 00:26, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
:This is a [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Wrong IP address shown|known issue]]. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 11:06, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

== Crash ==

Cool, I was worried for a bit that Explain Xkcd was down. By the way, I found the URL for a [http://c.xkcd.com/random/comic random comic] and a [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Random random explained comic]. [[User:SilverMagpie|SilverMagpie]] ([[User talk:SilverMagpie|talk]]) 16:48, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

== A problem with a thing ==

Hi, I'm a new user on this site, and for some reason I can't make my own user page because I don't have permission. Plz help me!

[[User:Timeflow X|Timeflow X]] ([[User talk:Timeflow X|talk]]) 10:52, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

: Weird - it works for me. I edited your user page, see if you can edit it now that its created? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:44, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

== LocalSettings.php ==

Please set "$wgUseInstantCommons = true;" in LocalSettings.php. We have still pictures with red links here. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:39, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
: Done --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 00:40, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
::Thanks, but it's not working as expected: [[File:Button sig.png]]. It should show this picture: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Button_sig.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Button_sig.png].--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 14:44, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
::: Ok, I'll take a look again when I can, is there anything else I need to do? Like add an extension? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 02:32, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
::::Are we on MediaWiki version 1.16 or later? If not "$wgForeignFileRepos" would be the solution. But if the version is ok it's probably an https related problem: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons#HTTPS InstantCommons#HTTPS]. Maybe this helps.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 12:39, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
:::::'''Solved.''' As you can see above. I've had to update the ca-certificate package. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:56, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

== Email coming from a non-existent domain ==

The "confirm email" button sends email from "expla0@vps.explainxkcd.com". The vps.explainxkcd.com domain doesn't exist (according to CloudFlare's DNS servers). Some email servers (including sendmail's default configuration; see https://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/features.html#accept_unresolvable_domains) will reject such emails. I haven't tested password recovery emails, but I wouldn't be surprised if the same problem exists there too. In my case, I've added "vps.explainxkcd.com" to my access database, but whom should I talk to about fixing the sent email? [[User:Piquan|Piquan]] ([[User talk:Piquan|talk]]) 02:44, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
: The emails that I get when someone edits my talk page are: explain@explainxkcd.com and both settings in the localsettings.php are set to:$wgEmergencyContact = "explain@explainxkcd.com";$wgPasswordSender = "explain@explainxkcd.com"; but there might be a third one that catches those types of emails so I added $wgNoReplyAddress = "explain@explainxkcd.com"; Let me know if that fixes it. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 02:58, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
::I've send you an email from here: [[:Special:EmailUser/Jeff]]. I also requested a copy to me and that was more than two hours ago. But nothing happened and I'm sure you also didn't receive a mail. By having access to the log-files I'm sure I would figure out the problem. BTW: My last mail from here was in February. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 14:55, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Ok, problem partly solved; my mails went into the Spam folder eventually meaning no notification to me. The reason is in fact what [[User:Piquan|Piquan]] has told in the initial comment. The mails are delivered via a mail server "vps.explainxkcd.com with local (Exim 4.80.1)" (belonging to Lunar Pages/Cloudflare) while the MX entry for explainxkcd.com is "mail.explainxkcd.com". There are two possible solutions, but the first is highly recommended:
*Lunar Pages/Cloudflare have to change the rewriting rules at their Exim message transfer agent to an existing domain name. This would be in this case "mail.explainxkcd.com".
*The name "vps.explainxkcd.com" must resolve to the IP 67.210.100.50 (we must hope that will not change in the future) AND there must be a second MX entry in the name registry for "explainxkcd.com" to "vps.explainxkcd.com". But I predict this would cause new problems in the future.
The FROM line in the mail header (e.g. From: Dgbrt <my.name@mail.com> or something like <explain@explainxkcd.com>) is irrelevant because only the message agents needs a proper configuration. My former mail servers also rejected those corrupt mails; google mail just puts it into a spam folder. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:43, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

== ReCaptcha v1 is going away ==

As I was posting an earlier comment, the reCAPTCHA told me:
"V1 UNSUPPORTED - Please direct siteowner to g.co/recaptcha/upgrade". (I typed "V1 UNSUPPORTED" in the box and it worked.) It looks like the reCAPTCHA that's currently being used by the wiki is sunsetting on 31 March 2018 (in a month and a half, as of this writing), and so they're currently sending a small percentage of requests that notice instead of a CAPTCHA challenge. Thought I'd let you know. [[User:Piquan|Piquan]] ([[User talk:Piquan|talk]]) 02:55, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Someone else has already mentioned that in the admin forum, but no one replied. I really think we should create a new forum for requests like that, as not many people visit that forum now. And at the time of this comment the CAPTCHA has expired. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 07:40, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
: That's on me, I'm working on it. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:03, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
::That's great, please also fix the email issue (section above). --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 12:15, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Please reactivate the corrupt captcha or disable IPs from editing. We already have vandalism (see history at [[1031]])! --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 14:58, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
: Well, that was stupid. It's back on now. I'm going to fix it, but I can't fix it right now so I'll leave the broken one on. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 15:20, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks, a day or one more are not a problem yet. But maybe you should change the Sitenotice on top so that others can see that work is in progress. Nevertheless I would talk to you about some general issues here, so when you have time please contact me on my talk page. Maybe you remember that I've had a test-wiki at home to test my BOT. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:58, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

== A Couple of Issues ==

1. Google seems to have changed something in AdSense again, and the ads have been appearing in random positions again since December, 2019. [https://wpadvancedads.com/adsense-in-random-positions-auto-ads/ This page] might have a solution? It's been quite a while, and the ads are still broken.
2. New site called xkcd.wtf is blatantly stealing/scraping explanations from our site and posting it with a new theme. Not sure if it's a mirror or just Ctrl+C Ctrl+V. Is this even legal? [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 09:32, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
: Google keeps killing me with these. I'll see what I can do. Not sure about the page copying. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:32, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
:: looks like xkcd.wtf at least links to us and references us at the bottom since all of our stuff is CC licensed. Pretty friendly all things concerned. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:54, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

== Randall's NYT Columns ==
Hi, In June I posted a proposal on the community portal ([[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#New_page_for_Randall.27s_regular_column_in_the_New_York_Times |New page for Randall's regular column in the NY Times]]) and I was sort of hoping to get feedback. The proposal does include a script for the page.

I'm not sure where the page would go or be linked from, but it would be similar to our page about [[whatif|what if?]]. Perhaps the see also sections of the [[Randall Munroe]] page and the [[xkcd]] page.

BTW Jeff, our own links to our [[whatif|what if?]] page don't work, because the page name ends with a question mark, which messes up the browser (or maybe the Wiki software). The link I gave in the previous sentence does work, but when you get to the page and ask for what links here, that fails. ([https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=what_if%3F&namespace%3D This, however] does work as an external link.) Probably need to rename the page to not include a question mark. But anyway. [[User:JohnB|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB|talk]]) 16:54, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
:Every mod has LANCBed (leave and never come back). Nothing can be fixed. — [[User:Sqrt-1|The 𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭]] [[User talk:Sqrt-1|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1|stalk]] 14:25, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
::SlashMe is still active, but he doesn't have server access. I think Dgbrt has server access as well, and I left a comment on his talk page in the hopes that he'll reply (but he hasn't been active in a while). [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 02:16, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
::: Sorry guys. I'm here. I can take a look at this for you. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:32, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
:::: Keep commenting here guys, because this notifies me. Life is nuts right now so my time is crazy. Send anything you need done. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:40, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
::::: Thanks so much Jeff, this is very appreciated! Re: the "what if" errors, if it's at all helpful:
:::::: * The "<code>No input file specified</code>" error seems to happen for pages that end in question marks or have special characters like "é" in their name. A list of such pages is [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Known broken pages|here]].
:::::: * A possible solution is mentioned [[mw:Manual talk:Short URL/Page title -- Windows & Apache without 403 on Special Pages|here]] in the MediaWiki manual talk pages, involving [https://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.cgi.force-redirect CGI settings in php.ini] (for IIS) or [https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule mod_rewrite settings in .htaccess] (for Apache). (Not sure if that's valid, or if there are any security/stability side-effects/consequences of that.)
:::::: * As a workaround in the meantime, [[User:Sqrt-1]] has moved/renamed the "[[what if?]]" page to "[[what if]]" to make it easier to get to.
:::::: * (If you're interested, there's a whole section about it in the Technical community portal [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#Unable to view "what if?" page|here]].)
::::: – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 17:41, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

: Re: Randall's New York Times columns, just a note that [[User:JohnB]] has created a page for this at [[New York Times: Good Question]]. – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 17:41, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Talk:748: Worst-Case Scenario

2021-02-04T14:34:38Z

Yfmcpxpj: Jeff Masters blog links updated

Done! [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]])

"frothy mix" is a reference to Rick Santorum. [[Special:Contributions/75.60.27.102|75.60.27.102]] 03:17, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
:The comic was published on June 2, 2010. I strongly doubt it was a reference to Santorum. [[Special:Contributions/166.182.3.247|166.182.3.247]] 17:36, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

The original {{w|Campaign for "santorum" neologism|"frothy mix"}} incident occurred in 2003 and came back into the news during Rick Santorum's Presidential primary campaign in 2013. So frothy mix could still be a reference to that incident. [[User:Dawfedora|Dawfedora]] ([[User talk:Dawfedora|talk]]) 21:40, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
: But probably isn't, given that fluids being agitated forms a froth. So it's just the correct word for the situation. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 03:31, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Isn't this tantamount to blackmail: "In 2010 Savage said he would take the site down if Santorum donated US$5 million plus interest to Freedom to Marry"? {{unsigned|Weatherlawyer}}
:No, blackmail is the practice of withholding information that may be damaging to a person's reputation in return for money. Putting that "information" up on a freely accessible website is pretty much the opposite of withholding it. Maybe it's coercion, but it's a "threat" to leave something up that is already there. I'm not sure if there is a word for it, but "blackmail" isn't it. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 05:45, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

The link to Jeff Masters's blog is down, apparently due to some restructuring of the website. The only current blog written by him I could find on that website is Category 6 (co-authored by Bob Henson): https://www.wunderground.com/cat6
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.89.23|162.158.89.23]] 19:37, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

:Good catch. Found the relevant article to the comic ("What would a hurricane do to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?") in the WunderBlog archives and changed the link to that; but the pictures are still broken, so also added a Wayback Machine link to the original from when the comic was published. – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 14:34, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

748: Worst-Case Scenario

2021-02-04T14:29:05Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Update links to Jeff Masters' blog, to the relevant article.

{{comic
| number = 748
| date = June 2, 2010
| title = Worst-Case Scenario
| image = worst_case_scenario.png
| titletext = To get serious analyses of hurricanes and oil slicks, see Jeff Masters' blog. To get serious discussions of worst-case scenario thinking, see Bruce Schneier's blog. To get enough Vitamin D, don't read any blogs and go outside instead.
}}

==Explanation==

This comic is a reference to the ''{{w|Deepwater Horizon}}'' oil spill that happened in the {{w|Gulf of Mexico}}. {{w|Top kill}} is a reference to a procedure used as a means of regaining control over an oil well that is experiencing an uncontrolled eruption of crude oil. {{w|Michael Bay}} is an American film director known for his over the top special effects and plots, one example being the {{w|Transformers (film series)|''Transformers'' movie franchise}}.

Should the proposed firestorm actually happen, residential areas and hundreds of square miles of sensitive vegetation would be fouled by the mix of oil and sea water. A firestorm would certainly make the bad situation worse, and would certainly make a great scene in a typical Hollywood disaster movie. Lightning could set an oil slick on fire, in regions where the oil is most dense and very fresh. About 50-70% of the evaporation of oil's most flammable volatile compounds occurs in the first 12 hours after release, so fresh oil is the most likely to ignite. However, the winds of a hurricane are so fierce that any surface oil slick of flaming oil would quickly be disrupted and doused by wave action and sea spray. Heavy rain would further dampen any lightning-caused oil slick fires. So Michael Bay's firestorm would not actually happen in real life. However, if he decides to direct a new movie...

This comic is a commentary on the state of broadcast journalism and how they are always looking for speculation and voyeurism rather than facts. That they ask if Mr. Bay's proposed firestorm will have any effect on the then-upcoming congressional elections just serves to underline how little the journalists actually care about the damage that has actually been caused.

{{w|James Carville}} is a political commentator who was born and lives in Louisiana, and thus relates to media, politics, and Louisiana at once.

The title text has a reference to Jeff Masters, who is director of meteorology at {{w|Weather Underground (weather service)|Weather Underground}} and runs a [https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/what-would-a-hurricane-do-to-the-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill.html blog] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20100609120510/http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1492 archived]), and {{w|Bruce Schneier}}, who is a world-renowned security expert and also has a [https://www.schneier.com/ blog] and several books. {{w|Vitamin D}} is a vitamin that the human body can synthesize with the aid of direct sunlight; the joke, "go outside", is Randall accusing us of all being shut-ins.

==Transcript==
:[Two reporters, Cueball and Ponytail, point microphones toward a scientist, Megan.]
:Ponytail: Dr. Scientist! The "Top Kill" has failed! What's the worse-case scenario for the gulf?
:Megan: The worst-case scenario is what's happening now.

:Ponytail, out of frame: Yes, but is there any way it could get worse?
:Megan: Sure, but there are real disasters happening now, and you're substituting speculation and voyeurism for the investigative journalism we—
:Ponytail: Screw this! Let's ask Michael Bay.

:[The reporters, now joined by a camerawoman, approach Michael Bay with their microphones.]
:Michael Bay: The worst case? A hurricane tracks into the gulf, whipping the surface of the spill into a frothy mix of oil and air.

:[An alligator-filled conflagration atop a massive ocean wave approaches land.]
:Michael Bay, narrating: As the storm surges through the bayous, sparking power lines ignite the fuel air mixture into a roiling, alligator-filled wall of flame.

:[A map of the gulf coast of Louisiana and southwest Mississippi is depicted with the current routes of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers highlighted. An arrow indicating a new primary flow of the Mississippi's waters into the Atchafalaya points toward southern Louisiana.]
:Michael Bay, narrating: Plowing northward, the fire hurricane destroys the Old River Control Structure in Concordia, rerouting the Mississippi westward and sweeping Morgan City and the heart of cajun country out to sea.

:Michael Bay: James Carville emerges from the conflagration riding a burning alligator...
:Ponytail, out of frame: Will this affect the midterm elections?
:Michael Bay: ''Massively''.

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24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey

2021-01-31T17:11:12Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Awkward wording; grammar: simple past tense > continuous past tense.

{{comic
| number = 24
| date = September 30, 2005
| title = Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey
| before = [[#Explanation|↓ Skip to explanation ↓]]
| image = godel_escher_kurthalsey.jpg
| titletext = I love the idea here, though of course it's not a great-quality drawing or scan.
}}

==Explanation==
At the time [[xkcd]] was created, [[Randall]] was working on robotics at {{w|NASA}}'s Langley Center. This drawing was apparently made during that period, while attending a talk that he didn't like.

The name of the comic is a portmanteau-like play on the following:
* ''{{w|Gödel, Escher, Bach}}'' is a book by {{w|Douglas Hofstadter}}. He is an American author who has written several books about philosophy, mathematics, and science. This particular book is his most famous one, about "strange loops", self-reference, and recurring patterns, partially shown through the works of the three people in its title:
** {{w|Kurt Gödel}} was a 20th-century mathematician most famous for proving that in our commonly used axiomatic systems, there are true propositions that cannot be proved from the axioms. His proof used a self-referential paradox.
** {{w|M. C. Escher}} was a 20th-century artist most famous for mathematically-inspired engravings of tessellated animals, impossible scenes, [http://philosopherdeveloper.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/devilsangels.jpg fractals], and so on. The form of this strip resembles one of his [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Escher,_Metamorphosis_II.jpg Metamorphosis etchings].
** {{w|Johann Sebastian Bach}} was a German composer and musician from the {{w|Baroque Period}}, famous for numerous works such as the ''{{w|Brandenburg Concertos}}.

* Kurt Halsey is a comic artist from {{w|Oregon}}. His work often contains introspective philosophical musings. At least one phrase in the letter is attributed to Halsey, "The past is just practice".

The comic is drawn in the form of a {{w|storyboard}} and is clearly intended to be visualized as an animated sequence.

In the first part of the comic, two people discuss the difficulty of comparing past and present generations, since the person making the comparison invariably belongs to one of the two groups.

It's unclear whether the behatted guy is [[Black Hat]], as Randall hadn't standardized his character designs yet, though the sarcastic comment suggests that it is. If it is, then this would be his first appearance. (He also appears in [[12: Poisson]], but that comic was released about 3 months later, but the numbering did not follow the release day on [[LiveJournal]] when the comics were transferred to xkcd - see the [[12: Poisson#Trivia|trivia]] for that comic.)

The assembly of text panels found in the middle of the strip is similar to [[124: Blogofractal]].

The philosophy of Kurt Gödel is also a theme in [[468: Fetishes]].

==Interpretations==

* The bubbles may illustrate ideas, memories, or subjects that one could wonder about. In the context of the boring talk, this would mean that Randall is lost in thoughts and gradually loses focus of things going on around him. He sees the talk as mundane, as a part of so many other "subject bubbles".
** Even the comic vertical lines (and therefore the strip's structure) seem to lose their sense to Randall as they collapse and become part of the scene, eventually merging three panels into one. They later reappear for the last six panels.
* The big bubble pushing the small ones further outside may demonstrate how shallow the surface bubbles are to him, or represent an infinite (or very large) number of small bubbles.
* The quote stating "There's too much. And so little feels important." tells us that he feels overwhelmed by the world, maybe by information given in the NASA talk or by events in his life. He recognizes what is important to him, and he feels that it is small compared to the size of the worries of the world (or the big bubble). He may have experienced a sort of existential crisis before turning to his feeling of love in the last panels, when asking himself, "What do you do?".
* The structure of the strip has some abstract connections with the structure of the book. The beginning, middle, and end sequences reflect back on themselves; the strip displays some symmetry. In the book, there's an interplay of contributions from the artist, the musician, and the mathematician; some of this is present in the strip [Lots of citations missing].
* The biggest bubble is expanding, and on it is a fractal arrangement of articles describing various scientific and philosophical discussions. A subjective interpretation is that the fractal nature of the excerpts is a comment on the unending attempt to rationalize and justify the unchanging nature of humanity. The largest bubble bursts, leaving the two figures on a shred of what once was. The final question is, "What do you do when the bubble bursts?" It seems that his answer is to find someone and love them; in the end, that's all that matters. The rest is just air.

==Transcript==
:Drawn during an unending NASA lecture
:[Two people are talking, one in a hat.]
:Cueball: it's just so hard to compare kids now with kids in the past. you can't help but to belong to one group or the other.

:Cueball: and of course every generation seems awful to the one before it. look at quotes from throughout history.

:Hatted: yeah, and it sure would be nice to have some historical perspective on some of this stuff. I just don't know what to make of it.
:[Circles are appearing--maybe snow?]

:Cueball: i guess you do what you can to help the people around you and hope it turns out okay.

:Cueball: in the end, what else can you do?

:Hatted: lead a crusade?

:[We can no longer see the people, just the circles.]
:it's presentism, man. the idea that historical context is irrelevant, that we understand it

:all that we need take no warnings from the follies of the past. that we're facing something new.

:socrates couldn't imagine the internet. but people don't change.
:[We can start to see a darker circle in the lower right corner.]

:(The borders between the three panels on this line are cracking.)
:have you seen those collections of historical pornography? talk about historical context.

:did you know the first porn photo was bestial in.
:[inside a circle:] nature?

:at least that stuff was out of the mainstream
:[each word in one circle:]
:no
:just
:in
:history

:(the three panels have merged into one on each row.)

:i don't know about you, but
:[circled] I
:[uncircled] never

:even once seen

:[The circles are highly variable in size now, and pressed up against a larger one on the right side.]

:[There is mass of circles of different sizes, with some dark fissures in between, against the side of a large circle which we can see part of in the right half of the panel. They look like cells. There's a tiny square in the center of the giant cell.]

:[We see only the tiny square, centered. It has a few marks inside it.]

:[Closer, the square is divided into rectangles of different sizes, each of which has text in it.]

:[Much closer, we can see fragments of the text. Some are sideways, some are cut off, some are too small to read.]
:machine language translated by principles of isomorphism it is a consequence of the Church-Turing thesis that ...
:but how do you select the channel you wish to se-
:thou ... shou ... palin ... stri ... it is a ... crab ...
:be obvious to one-s ... your great intellectual achievements ... Tortise. Why ... you give this old Tortise ...

:[Closer still, we can just see a huge sideways s and h.]

:[Those letters are faded and mixed with a faded version of the next panel.]

:girls take boys away ...
:never be further than a phone call and a goosebumped shiver away ...
:drove all night listening to mix tapes ...
:the past is just practice
:[There is a heart at the bottom and, in the lower left, the name Kurt.]

:[The same as the previous panel, but with the words blurred out to scribbles.]

:[Jagged, shaded shapes and strands start to fall. Faint panel borders appear again. There is a person on the far right.]

:(Back to three panels per row.)
:[Cueball and Megan are standing amid the fragments.]

:Cueball: There's too much. And so little feels important.

:[The jagged edge of the shaded area is encroaching on the sides of the panel.]

:What do you do?

:[We see them from farther away through a rough hole in the shaded area. Bits continue to fall around them.]

:[They are holding hands.]

==Trivia==
*This was the 6th comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]].
**The previous was [[1: Barrel - Part 1]].
**The next was [[13: Canyon]].
*Original title: "Strip series"
*Original [[Randall]] quote:
::"One of a series of strips I drew during a long and boring NASA lecture. It careens wildly from intellectual to chaotic to Godel, Escher, Bach to Kurt Halsey to chaotic and sappy.
::
::The whole series is here. "
*The last word "here" is a now broken link: <nowiki>http://www.xkcd.com/comic/comic.html</nowiki>
**It was the first time Randall posted a link to the xkcd.com site (so the xkcd page was already active when he posted his first comics to LiveJournal).
**The link indicates that the image posted on LiveJournal was only part of this strip.
**Unfortunately, both the image of this strip and the link posted on LiveJournal are broken (also in the archive).
**So it is not known if there is even more to this strip than now posted on xkcd or if the original post only covered a small part of this very long strip. In that case, the link would take the user to the full comic, the one here, which was later posted on xkcd.
**If anyone knows which of the above is true, please make a comment here. (Do edit, but make sure to indicate that this is a fact then).
*This was one of the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|thirteen first comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on Friday, September 30, 2005.
*This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006.
**It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others.
**The latter explains why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44.

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2411: 1/10,000th Scale World

2021-01-31T16:44:03Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Transcript */ Remove links from transcript, per Editor FAQ

{{comic
| number = 2411
| date = January 13, 2021
| title = 1/10,000th Scale World
| image = 1_10000th_scale_world.png
| titletext = OCEAN PLAY AREA RULES: No running, no horseplay, no megatsunamis, and no trying to pry the wreck of the Titanic off the bottom.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic is part of a series continued in the subsequent comic, [[2412: 1/100,000th Scale World]] with a, by a factor of ten, smaller world.

Models of large-scale objects (cars, airplanes, etc.) are typically produced at a given scale, given as a ratio between the original object (the first number) and the model (the second number). The same applies to maps and globes. What Randall has here, though, is neither a map nor a model but a seemingly complete copy of Earth, at a 1:10,000 scale. Various features and warnings are labeled.

{{w|Miniature parks}}, also known as model villages, are tourist attractions around the world of a scale between 1:9 and 1:72. For example, the finale of the movie ''{{w|Hot Fuzz}}'' features a battle amongst a miniature of the streets and buildings seen so far in the film. Normally a miniature park would feature a representation of one geographical location rather than a geologically/technologically accurate depiction of our current planet. Whether or not Randall is aware of it, the reputed [http://www.mapascotland.org/ largest outdoor relief map in the world] is set out at a horizontal scale of 1:10,000.

Real-world phenomena are reproduced at scale, for humorous effect. A real 1/10,000th scale "Earth" would have a diameter of less than a mile, and a surface area of around 2 square miles, the approximate dimensions of a medium-sized asteroid. On such an object, constrained by known physics, there would be no air, standing water, weather, or large magma bodies, and any sort of rough-housing would irrecoverably catapult the visitor into space.

Normally in a miniature model, most warnings try to prevent the visitors from accidentally doing something cataclysmic to the model. Likewise, the "ocean play area rules" in the title text tell visitors not to create any {{w|megatsunami}}s, which could conceivably be induced by a cannonball dive. But as digging seems to be discouraged mainly where it causes volcanoes to break out, the visitors seem to be given far greater freedom than usual.

Visitors are also instructed not to try to pry the model of the {{w|wreck of the Titanic}} off the ocean floor. In our world, the wreck is at a depth of 12,500 feet, which would be 1 foot and 3 inches in Randall's model world. The Titanic was over 882 feet long, but the ship split in half as she sank, and now lies in two pieces about a third of a mile apart. Randall's model would have two pieces about a half-inch in size separated by about two inches. If the models are rusted and sunk in mud just like the real wreck is, trying to pry them loose would certainly damage them, but all of Randall's other rules seem to be about preventing harm to guests, not preventing damage to the model, so maybe he just doesn't want guests bending over and exerting themselves in the water where they could slip, submerge their faces, and be at risk of drowning.

Scale models, and the problems with them, was the subject of [[878: Model Rail]]. In general, illustrating relative scale is a [[:Category:Illustrations of scale|recurring subject]] on xkcd. This comic is also somewhat reminiscent of [[941: Depth Perception]].

{| class="wikitable"
!Rule
!Reason
!Notes
|-
| Watch out for airliners cruising near shoulder level
| Unintentional catastrophic damage to air traffic. The damage likely wouldn't be reciprocal: actual airplane speed is very similar to the speed at which a bullet is fired [https://pinchito.es/2019/high-speeds], but 1/10,000 of that is quite slow, on the order of 10 inches / 25 cm per second - which is fortunate because the aircraft would weigh about half a milligram (1/50000 oz) or more.
| At this scale, the lowest airliner cruising altitude would be 3 ft or 0.9 m [https://time.com/5309905/how-high-do-planes-fly/#:~:text=Commercial%20aircraft%20typically%20fly%20between,that%20can%20present%20safety%20issues.], shoulder height for a 5-year-old [https://www.disabled-world.com/calculators-charts/height-weight-teens.php]. Scaling the height of the highest plane to ever fly [https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2017/05/28/altitude/102185856/] puts it at 9 ft, which would put it just over the head of the tallest person who ever lived [https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/hall-of-fame/robert-wadlow-tallest-man-ever]
|-
| Trip hazard: Appalachian Mountains
| At half a foot tall, the Appalachians could trip visitors who are not being careful.
| 6684 ft ≈ 0.67 ft in the model world
|-
| Do not stand or climb on Mt. Everest
| One may destroy the model.
|Also, Everest appears to be rather pointy. Also still a bit steep, so visitors may fall down and hurt themselves.
|-
| Caution: Hydro-thermal vents underfoot
|Hydrothermal vents are extremely hot, which could cause burns to the feet of the viewers
|Underwater volcanoes and stuff
|-
| Children must be supervised while in the ocean, especially near trenches
|They might drown.
|The Challenger Deep is 36,200 feet below the surface; this equates to 3.62 feet in the model world, a depth which small children could conceivably drown in.
|-
| Danger: positive lightning! Do not touch cloud tops
| The cumulonimbus cloud is an electrocution hazard, as Megan is learning the hard way
| Getting too close to the positive cloud tops risks causing lightning to arc into you down to the negative ground.
|-
| Avoid hypoxia by regularly sitting to bring your lungs below the death zone
| The scale world even has a scale atmosphere, and visitors are cautioned to regularly sit down so they can breathe below the {{w|death zone}}, which is approximately two and a half feet above the surface.
| The death zone is approximately 8,000 meters above the ground, equating to 0.8 meters or 2.62 feet in the model world. There is also a what-if on the subject [https://what-if.xkcd.com/64/].
|-
| Do not dig near Yellowstone
| Digging up the {{w|Yellowstone Caldera}} could potentially reactivate the {{w|supervolcano}} there.
|
|-
| Please do not smack weather balloons
| Smacking balloons around can be a fun activity, mostly done by children, but it would be very unfriendly if done to weather balloons.
| Weather balloons can reach 20 ft in diameter before bursting, corresponding to a 0.6 mm small object at this scale. The idea of smacking research data raises a sense of how advanced the idea of a physics-complete model of the world is, next to possible comparative banality of academic research.
|-
| Be careful not to step on cities with especially pointy towers, like Toronto, Seattle, and Dubai
| The {{w|CN Tower}}, the {{w|Space Needle}} and the {{w|Burj Khalifa}} are much taller than they are wide, thus, "pointy." The Burj Khalifa, the tallest of the three, would stand at 3.2 inches (8.3 cm) at this scale, making it possible to impale one's foot on it when walking
| [[File:Empire State Building (aerial view).jpg|right|100px|thumb|Pointy.]] This seems to be exclusively for the visitors' benefit, rather than that of the cities.
|}

==Transcript==
:[At the top of the image, inside the panel, a large title is floating in the air.]
:RULES

:For visitors to my 1/10,000th scale world

:1 meter = 10 km 1 ft = 10,000 ft ~ 2 miles

:[Each of the following rules is written near a character or point of interest on the map.]

:[Two small dots with thin lines coming out of them horizontally are in the air near Cueball, who is brushing them off.]
:Watch out for airliners cruising near shoulder level

:[Small mountains are seen near the left edge of the screen, by Cueball's feet.]
:Trip hazard: Appalachian Mountains

:[A young Hairy is climbing on mountains reaching approximately Cueball's waist.]
:Do not stand or climb on Mt. Everest

:[Under the water, a small bump in the ground expells bubbles.]
:Caution: Hydro-thermal vents underfoot

:[Science Girl stands shoulder-deep in the ocean, peering down into the trench below.]
:Children must be supervised while in the ocean, especially near trenches

:[Megan's hand is extended, and lightning from the cloud is jumping to her hand.]
:Danger: positive lightning! Do not touch cloud tops

:[Ponytail sits near some mountains, with a dotted line in the air stretching across her forehead.]
:Avoid hypoxia by regularly sitting to bring your lungs below the death zone

:[A blob-shaped thing with wiggly grey texture lines drawn all over is underground.]
:Do ''not'' dig near Yellowstone

:[A second Cueball is jumping in the air, a hand reached back, in position to smack a weather balloon.]
:Please do not smack weather balloons

:[Some very tiny vertical lines extend from the ground.]
:Be careful not to step on cities with especially pointy towers, like Toronto, Seattle, and Dubai

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2412: 1/100,000th Scale World

2021-01-31T16:41:47Z

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{{comic
| number = 2412
| date = January 15, 2021
| title = 1/100,000th Scale World
| image = 1_100000th_scale_world.png
| titletext = The floor should be slightly curved, but we haven't figured out artificial gravity yet, so for now we just added a trace intoxicating gas to the air that messes with your inner ear and gives you a sense that the ground is tilting away from you.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a TOXIC AURORA. The table needs to be filled out, and the explanation needs more work as well. More on the title text with the gas mentioned. Also Cueball's remark not mentioned yet. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

This comic is a sequel to the previous one, [[2411: 1/10,000th Scale World]], with a 10 times larger scale (thus, a 10 times smaller world). As in the previous comic, [[Randall]] has another seemingly complete copy of Earth, this time at a 1:100,000 scale, with various features and warnings labeled. Again, real-world features and phenomena are replicated at scale.

Details on the various remarks are in the [[#Table|table]] below.

The title text states that the floor should be slightly curved. In fact, given that the model in the comic is about 10 meters long, it represents about 1000 km of Earth, which spans about 9 degrees of a great circle. Therefore, if the model wasn't larger than the part shown in the panel, its edges would have a very noticeable slope of 4.5 degrees. What's more, the note that they haven't invented artificial gravity reveals that the scale worlds are nothing more than a mundane model, rather than some supernatural phenomenon that allows giants to roam about the surface of the Earth.

===Table===
{| class="wikitable"
!Rule
!Reason
!Notes
|-
|Our aurora are probably non-toxic but please stop trying to taste them
| The aurora in the image is now temptingly at head height, and presumably look a lot like cotton candy or other inviting foodstuffs.
| The plural of "{{w|aurora}}" should actually be "auroras" or "aurorae".
|-
|No breaking off pieces of the ice caps to put in your drink
|An ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi) of land area.
|Breaking off pieces of ice caps would affect the climate of the scale world. In addition, breaking off pieces of somebody's models is ''very'' rude. However, at about 2-3 km thickness in real world, 1/100,000 scaled ice caps have a 2-3 cm thickness, which is a very convenient size to put in drinks.
|-
|Warning: Limited cell network coverage above the ionosphere, crouch down to get more bars
| The ionosphere reflects radio signals, in this case keeping terrestrial cellular phone signals from reaching phones higher up.
|The ionosphere would be at around 48-965 centimeters in the scale world, so visitors would need to place their phones below it to receive cellphone signals.
|-
|Do not step on Mt. Everest
| Mt. Everest, the highest peak on Earth, is several inches tall at 1:100,000 scale.
|Mt. Everest would probably be extremely sharp and puncture your foot.
|-
|Caution! Ocean floor slippery when wet
| Due to the smaller scale, the ocean depths would only be a few inches deep at most; this amount of liquid would cause more of a 'slippery surface' than a 'water region'.
|
|-
|Wear sunscreen; the ozone layer only protects you below the knees.
|The ozone layer is a layer of the Earth's stratosphere that shields the Earth from the Sun's ultraviolet rays.
|The ozone layer is approximately 15-35 kilometers above Earth, or 15-35 centimeters in this scaled world, below knee height. Visitors would need sunscreen to protect them from UV rays. In the real world, most humans live with their bodies entirely below the ozone layer{{Citation needed}} but wear sunscreen anyway, so visitors should probably also wear sunscreen below their knees as well as above if they're going to be visiting around midday.
|-
|Beware of chest-level meteors
|Meteors typically occur (i.e. become more visible than in space) in the mesosphere at altitudes from 76 to 100 km (250,000 to 330,000 ft).
|In the scale world, meteors would occur at 76 to 100 centimeters, around chest height. You'd expect head-level asteroids too, as precursors, but this may be (mutually) covered by the eye-protection against satellite re-entry, below. (A hard-hat would also be suggested.)
|-
| -100°C mesopause vest recommended
|The mesopause is the boundary in the earth's atmosphere between the mesosphere and the thermosphere. Due to the lack of solar heating and very strong radiative cooling from carbon dioxide, it is the coldest region on Earth with temperatures as low as -100 °C (-148 °F).
|Without protection, visitors would succumb to hypothermia due to the extremely low temperatures.
|-
|If Lake Tahoe or the Dead Sea dries up, refill them with this 5oz wine glass
|Five ounces, times 100,0003 (because this is volume, so the linear scale factor applies to each of three dimensions), would be about 150 cubic kilometers, which is the approximate volume of {{w|Lake Tahoe}}; the {{w|Dead Sea}} is recently about 115 cubic kilometers, though it used to be somewhat larger.
|Five fluid ounces (US customary) is a tad below 148 cubic centimeters, or milliliters. (Elsewhere, if used, it is actually nearer 142cc.) Modern wine glasses may actually hold 450ml (filled to the brim), but 150ml is typical of a late 19thC antique glass or a modern 'serving' level that is more tasteful/economic than an overgenerous 'drown your sorrows' one.
|-
|Safety glasses required for protection from reentering spacecraft
|It is at approximately head height in this model that de-orbiting spacecraft are at their fastest, depending upon where their decayed or departed original was. At scale, they'd probably equate to a metalworking fragment, perhaps more dangerous in quantity than individually.
|We also tend to know about satellites and fairings returning to Earth and most (unless intended to) won't significantly survive. Meteors (see above) are hard to spot in space unless particularly big, may only be detected when spotted burning up, may be significantly denser/less fragile, and could be traveling five times faster. General head protection may be advised, just in case.
|-
|Do not anger the sprites
| {{w|Sprite (lightning)|Sprites}} are poorly understood electrical phenomena in the upper atmosphere. They are enormous but very short-lived.
| Sprites are also a name given to a form of forest spirit known for mischievous and sometimes harmful behavior. In some fairy tales, a warning would be given to not anger the spirits in case of grave repercussions.
|-
|Please stop digging through the Moho. Staff are tired of cleaning up large igneous provinces.
|Short for the {{w|Mohorovičić discontinuity}}, the Moho is the boundary surface separating the Earth's crust from the mantle. It can be found at a depth of 6-7 miles under the ocean bed, and about 24-30 miles under the continents.
|Using Randall's 1/100,000th scale world, 6-7 miles would be approximately 4 inches, while 24-30 miles would be about 16 inches, making the Moho easily accessible via digging. It would indeed create {{w|Large igneous province|large igneous provinces}}, and make a big mess of lava that the staff would have to clean up, which would not be fun {{Citation needed}}. The lava has a decent chance to burn through a mop or some other tool, so it would be pretty tricky to clean up as well since your cleaning items would light on fire unless soaked in water or something. "Large igneous provinces" may be a reference to [[2061: Tectonics Game]], where making them is "the worst."
|-
|ISS (14 feet up) Returns every 90 minutes - Hit it with a nerf dart, win a prize!
| The {{w|International Space Station}} is the largest human-made object in space and orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes.
| This idea of treating modern research as a toy is in the same general panel area as the weather balloon smacking from the previous comic, except instead of a rule preventing people from doing so, this time the visitor is being ''dared'' to attempt it, similarly to a {{w|carnival game}}. Hitting the ISS with a nerf dart in this scaled world would have a potentially devastating effect on the ISS; however, at this scale, the ISS would be about a millimeter across, so that hitting it so far above your head as it goes by would be very difficult. Rather like a target in a typical carnival-game, the scale ISS is moving past at a moderate speed, about three inches per second (7.7 cm/s), so you can have several attempts before it's entirely out of range till its next orbit.
|}

==Transcript==
:[At the top of the image, inside the panel, a large title is floating in the air.]
:RULES
:For visitors to my 1/100,000th scale world
:1 meter = 100 km, 1 ft=100,000ft≈20 miles

:[Each of the following rules is written near a character or point of interest on the map.]

:[Dark-colored aurorae are floating in the air.]
:Our aurora are probably non-toxic but please stop trying to taste them

:[Ponytail is kneeling and breaking off part of an ice cap. In her other hand, she holds a wine glass.]
:No breaking off pieces of the ice caps to put in your drink

:[At around ankle height, a mountain is shown.]
:Do not step on Mount Everest

:[A relatively small ocean is shown on the right of Mount Everest.]
:Caution! [A pictogram of a person slipping.] Ocean floor slippery when wet

:[A cell coverage icon with one cell bar.]
:Warning: Limited cell network coverage above the ionosphere. Crouch down to get more bars

:[Megan is facing the aurorae. Thin horizontal lines are at her knees.]
:Wear sunscreen; the ozone layer only protects you below the knees.

:[Cueball is standing with three meteors whizzing both at and away from him.]
:Beware of chest-level meteors

:[A dotted line is at the Cueball from the last rule's chest.]
:-100°C mesopause vest recommended

:[A wine glass is resting on the ground near a shallow depression.]
:If Lake Tahoe or the Dead Sea dries up, refill them with this 5oz wine glass

:[Another Cueball is standing, holding both hands up to his face.]
:Safety glasses required for protection from reentering spacecraft
:Cueball: ''OW!''
:(off-panel voice): What?
:Cueball: I got a Soyuz in my eye

:[A tornado-shaped lightning sprite is hovering over a cloud.]
:Do not anger the sprites

:[A dotted line weaves belowground.]
:Please stop digging through the Moho. Staff are tired of cleaning up large igneous provinces.

:[An arrow pointing above the panel top.]
:ISS (14 feet up)
:Returns every 90 minutes
:Hit it with a Nerf dart, win a prize!

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1762: Moving Boxes

2021-01-31T02:18:35Z

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{{comic
| number = 1762
| date = November 21, 2016
| title = Moving Boxes
| image = moving_boxes.png
| titletext = Later, when I remember that I'm calling movers, I frantically scribble over the labels and write 'NORMAL HOUSE STUFF' on all of them, which actually makes things worse.
}}

==Explanation==

[[Randall]] talks about moving boxes and not labeling them until he forgets what's in them. Since he doesn't know what's in them, he writes silly things on the boxes as a joke. Some things are unusual/unlikely (e.g. sand, hydrants, peat) and some are abstract/impossible (e.g. elves, taupe, dark matter). Several of the categories overlap confusingly; for instance, "sand" and "silt" and "dark matter" are all generally considered as "particles"; "membranes", "edges", and "shawls" are all kinds of "manifolds"; "hooves" are part of "bison"; "fog" contains "water"; and "triangles" consist of three "edges". Another way to interpret this comic is that Randall actually has these items (or at least some of them) in the boxes and has simply forgotten which boxes contain what.

According to the title text, when Randall remembers that he is calling movers, he frantically scribbles "Normal House Stuff" on all the boxes. He says this makes the situation worse, possibly because the movers see the scribble and become suspicious. Alternatively, labeling every box with the exact same phrase will make it even harder to figure out what they contain and where they should go in the new dwelling.

===Explanation of boxes===
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
!Label
!Explanation
|-
!Box 1
|-
|Grids|| [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grid Grids] are mathematical drawings; they would be constructed by drawing them, not stored in a box (though {{w|graph paper}} might be). May refer to a classic {{w|snipe hunt}} where a hazing victim is tasked with finding "a box of grid squares".
|-
|Bison||{{w|Bison}}, sometimes mistakenly called {{w|Bubalina|buffalo}}, are large animals that would probably not fit in the box{{Citation needed}}.
|-
|Checkerboards||The tabletop gaming boards on which one plays {{w|English draughts|Checkers}}. It is also the name of the corresponding pattern and thus can be interpreted as an abstract term like many other "objects" in this comic.
|-
|Fog||{{w|Fog}} is essentially low-lying clouds which, being gaseous, are hard to box using only cardboard.
|-
!Box 2
|-
|Beacons||Beacons are devices designed to draw attention to themselves, for various reasons. From the generic term "beacon" this could mean anything from electronic GPS locator beacons to miniature replicas of naval lighthouses. Or, alternatively, it could be like what is referenced in the 7th panel of [[921: Delivery Notification]], which is used to summon elves (which happen to be in the same box).
|-
|Elves||Elves are a fictional{{Citation needed}} race (or rather, many, many fictional races) of human-like magical creatures.
|-
|Sand||Sand grains are fine particles of rock. While it's not unheard of for people to need to store sand, it's usually not stored along with your personal belongings on moving day.{{Citation needed}}
|-
!Box 3
|-
|Hemoglobin||{{w|Hemoglobin}} is the protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body. This may be a solution of hemoglobin protein, but one human generally would not need a full box of it{{Citation needed}}.
|-
!Box 4
|-
|Water||As with sand, it's not unheard of for, say, a laboratory to store water samples for testing. But again, these wouldn't be stored along with your personal belongings on moving day. And if this is meant to be drinking water, it would be a waste of effort; it's taken as read that any house you're moving into has its own plumbing. Unless, of course, they insist on drinking bottled water (which some people do).
|-
|Hooves||{{w|Hooves}} are possibly best known as horse and cow 'feet'. This could also be read as a compound word, Water-Hooves akin to water-wings.
|-
!Box 5
|-
|Shorebirds|| Also known as {{w|Wader|Waders}}, these are an order of birds that wade in literal waters. Stuffing them in boxes would also be a bad idea.
|-
!Box 6
|-
|Oil|| This could mean anything from cooking oil to petroleum; either way, most of a box full of oil bottles is unusual, but for different reasons (that's a lot of cooking oil, a ''lot'' of motor oil and a comically small amount of crude oil).
|-
|Vectors||{{w|Vector (mathematics and physics)|Vector}}s are properties with magnitude and direction, such as velocity, momentum, acceleration, etc., but can depend on the context. In any situation, they are not physical objects, so they cannot be put in boxes. Alternatively "vector" could mean a carrier of a disease, such as ticks or mosquitoes, but while more possible to box they would still not be practical to keep with common household goods and the intent of moving them as such would be dubious at best.
|-
|Silt|| Material between sand and clay size-wise. A sediment. See sand and water above for why this is unusual. Randall has a special place in his heart for rock particles of various sizes; see [https://what-if.xkcd.com/83/ What If #83].
|-
!Box 7
|-
|Membranes||Delicate thin pliable sheet or skin of various kinds. Usually fragile or cut easily. Not something you would expect to be packed with something sharp, which shards are likely to be, although these labels are incorrect.
|-
|Shards||These are broken pieces of smooth and hard objects, e.g. ceramic, glass, crystal. Something you would normally expect to be thrown out, rather than packed up for moving house.
|-
!Box 8
|-
|Shawls||{{w|Shawls}} are a simple item of clothing, worn loosely over one's shoulders. Also being of rectangular shape, they are supposed to be worn in colder weather.
|-
|Glucose||{{w|Glucose}} is possibly best-known as the sugar plants produce for energy, but can be manufactured.
|-
|Kits||A {{w|kit}} is any set of tools, supplies, and/or instructions for a specific purpose. These could be first aid kits, software development kits, bomb-making kits, sewing kits... It can also refer to juveniles of some mammals, such as foxes or rabbits (it is not very likely that such animals would be packed in a box - though compare [[325: A-Minus-Minus]]). Alternatively, this may be a compound word "Glucose Kits", diabetic assay tools to help the patient regulate their blood sugar.
|-
!Box 9
|-
|Hydrants||{{w|Fire hydrant}}s are likely too big to fit in boxes and are also simply odd objects to be packing into a box.
|-
|Particles||As almost all matter is composed of {{w|particles}}, it is hard to find exceptions. Thus, this is very vague.
|-
|Knots||{{w|Knot}}s are things tied in ropes; they can hold things or just be there. This would be hard to put in a box without rope{{Citation needed}}. Could also refer to knots in a piece of {{w|wood}}, which are hard to put in the box without the rest of the wood. Knots could also refer to the {{w|Knot_(unit)|unit of speed}}, usually used in meteorology, and in maritime and air navigation which would be impossible to box as it is not a physical object.
|-
!Box 10
|-
|Graphite||{{w|Graphite}} is a crystalline form of carbon, where the atoms are arranged in sheets. It is found in some household products (pencils and lubricant oil), though in either case the name of the end product would be a more likely box label. Graphite is also a color.
|-
|Taupe|| {{w|Taupe}} is a dark tan color in between brown and gray, again, not an object. May be a reference to Gliese 581f (a.k.a. Taupe Mars) from [[1253|xkcd #1253]].
|-
!Box 11
|-
|Field Lines||This could refer to {{w|field line}}s as used to depict electromagnetic fields, or possibly to the lines painted on an athletic field to mark the boundaries of play. The former is a visualization tool rather than physical objects; the latter consists of streaks of paint on grass or artificial turf, and thus neither kind of field line is the kind of physical object that could be packed into a box.
|-
!Box 12
|-
|Traps||May be a reference to 'My house is full of traps' from [https://what-if.xkcd.com/34// What-If #34]
|-
!Box 13
|-
|Edges||{{w|Edge_(geometry)|Edge}} is a line segment joining two vertices. Even though physical objects do have edges, you cannot store edges themselves as they are just mathematical constructs.
|-
|Tribes||{{w|Tribe}} is a social group of people, tribes existed before states were formed. It is impossible to store a group of people in the box{{Citation needed}}.
|-
|Dough||{{w|Dough}} is a thick, malleable, sometimes elastic, paste made out of any grains, leguminous or chestnut crops. It is used in the process of cooking, but it doesn't make sense to pack it while moving.
|-
!Box 14
|-
|Dark Matter||{{w|Dark matter}} is what is believed to be a big part of the mass of galaxies, but we have never observed it, so it is not possible to pack it {{Citation needed}}. Alternatively, if all dark matter were permanently packed in boxes like this, it would explain why it has never been observed. According to the Copenhagen interpretation of the uncertainty principle, dark matter may both be in the box and somewhere else in the universe until somebody opens the box.
|-
!Box 15
|-
|Manifolds||In topology, {{w|Manifold|Manifolds}} are spaces with certain "nice" properties (i.e. they are locally Euclidean). This is yet another mathematical construct that is impossible to pack into a box. Manifold could also refer to a pipe or chamber branching into several openings, for example, an engine exhaust manifold. While physical, it's unlikely that multiple are put in a box for moving.
|-
!Box 16
|-
|Triangles||Within the context of this comic, the reference is likely to the shape. On the other hand, it would not be unusual to pack one or more {{w|Triangle (musical instrument)}}s into a box.
|-
|Peat|| {{w|Peat}} is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation that forms in wetland bogs, moors, mires, and swamps.
|-
|Crowns|| These may be royal crowns or may be the coin worth five shillings in UK pre-decimal currency.
|-
!Box 17
|-
|Scrolls||A {{w|scroll}} is a roll of papyrus, paper, or parchment that contains writing. It is a common item in fantasy games (as elves and traps).
|}

==Transcript==
:[A bunch of cardboard boxes stacked up, each labeled]
:{| class="wikitable" style="background:white" align=center
| style="visibility:hidden" |
| colspan="2" height="80px" width="80px" style="background:#CFBC92"|
Contents: 
Grids 
Bison 
Checkerboards 
Fog
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92"|
Contents: 
Beacons 
Elves 
Sand
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Hemoglobin
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Water 
Hooves
| style="visibility:hidden" |
|-|
| style="visibility:hidden" |
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Shorebirds
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Oil 
Vectors 
Silt
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Membranes 
Shards
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Shawls 
Glucose 
Kits
| style="visibility:hidden" |
|-|
| style="visibility:hidden" |
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Hydrants 
Particles 
Knots
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Graphite 
Taupe
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Field Lines
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Traps
| style="visibility:hidden" |
|-|
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Edges 
Tribes 
Dough
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Dark Matter
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Manifolds
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Triangles 
Peat 
Crowns
| colspan="2" width="80px" height="80px" style="background:#CFBC92" |
Contents: 
Scrolls
|}

:[Caption below the panel:]
:I always forget to label my moving boxes until they're sealed up and I've forgotten what's in them.
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244: Tabletop Roleplaying

2021-01-21T19:22:04Z

Yfmcpxpj: Undo revision 205136 by 172.68.182.14 (talk) – spam

{{comic
| number = 244
| date = April 4, 2007
| title = Tabletop Roleplaying
| image = tabletop roleplaying.png
| titletext = I may have also tossed one of a pair of teleportation rings into the ocean, with interesting results.
}}

==Explanation==
Four people are playing a {{w|role-playing game}}. [[Megan]] is the game master (GM), describing the events of the adventure and what happens. The other people control imaginary characters in the game. [[Cueball]] attempts to have his character lead other characters in the imaginary construction of dice and gaming sheets. This would allow his character to become the GM of a new game inside the game they're currently playing, effectively taking control of the game away from Megan (at least temporarily). To "recurse" refers to {{w|recursion (computer science)|recursion}}, a concept of computer programming where a piece of code calls itself, essentially making the code run multiple times "within" itself. This may be the simplest way to implement an otherwise long and complicated action. (For example, a folder may contain files inside, but also more folders inside. Asking a computer to 'search through everything' in a folder may involve first checking the files in that folder, and then checking the folders in that folder and 'searching through everything' again in those folders. The single command to 'search through everything' may cause numerous additional 'search through everything' commands to trigger on increasingly nested folders, stopping only once a folder(s) with only files inside (and no folders inside) is found.)

It should be noted that Megan, the current GM, has multiple ways of dealing with this scene to prevent Cueball from attempting to take control of the game. She could simply allude to the success or failure of the recursive game and "skip to the next scene." She could also allow the roleplaying to continue more literally, with crafting checks determining the quality of the miniatures and a gambling check determining the outcome of the in-universe RPG session. Finally, she could simply have the party's plans [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChandlersLaw be interrupted by some sort of threat], or just [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RocksFallEveryoneDies drop huge rocks on the party].

The title text refers to a pair of fictional rings. Anything passing through one gets teleported instantly to the other, as if the two rings were next to each other. There's an old gamer theory that, if you drop one of the rings in the ocean, water will naturally pass through it and out the other ring, potentially draining the entire ocean, or at least creating a perpetual seawater fountain out of the other ring. And if you teleported one ring directly to the bottom of the ocean, the amount of pressure pushing the water through would cause a gigantic, never-ending torrent, obliterating anything placed in its path. That idea is drawn out in [[969: Delta-P]]. A similar concept is addressed in [https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ What If? 53, "Drain the Oceans], where a reader asked "How quickly would the oceans drain if a circular portal 10 meters in radius leading into space was created at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the ocean? How would the Earth change as the water is being drained?". This question may have been inspired by the mention of throwing teleport rings into the ocean in this cartoon.

The rings themselves are most likely inspired by the "Ring Gates" item from the {{w|wikipedia|Dungeons and Dragons}} 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide (the most recent edition of Dungeons and Dragons at the time this comic was published), which had a similar function. However, a key thing to note is that the rings only allow 100 lbs of material to pass through them each day, meaning that your geyser would only erupt every 24 hours (though this may still qualify as an "interesting result").

==External Links==
* [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#ringGates The DnD 3.5 SRD's "Ring Gates"]
* [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?123123-Pair-of-teleportation-rings-ocean A Giant in the Playground forum thread discussing the "pair of teleportation rings"]

==Transcript==
:[Four people sit around a table. Megan has an open laptop.]
:Megan: Your party enters the tavern.
:Cueball: I gather everyone around a table. I have the elves start whittling dice and get out some parchment for character sheets.
:Megan: Hey, no recursing.

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485: Depth

2021-01-18T23:17:12Z

Yfmcpxpj: Fix comic date.

{{comic
| number = 485
| date = October 6, 2008
| before = [[#Explanation|↓ Skip to explanation ↓]]
| title = Depth
| image = depth.png
| titletext = The Planck length is another thousand or two pixels below the comic.
}}

==Explanation==
The comic is a companion piece to [[482: Height]], which explored a {{w|logarithmic scale}} from the edge of the observable universe down to the Earth's surface. ''Depth'' continues the process, viewing logarithmically smaller scales from Earth's atmosphere down to the interior of a single {{w|proton}}. This combination is reminiscent of Charles and Ray Eames' 1977 short film [http://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0 Powers of Ten].

Here's a walk through the entire comic:

* At the top we see a cutaway view of a story apartment complex. From left to right different activities can be seenin the apartments; [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] playing in a ball pit, Megan {{w|exorcising}} {{w|Windows Vista}}, [[Ponytail]] and Megan playing ''{{w|Guitar Hero}}'' or a similar game, Cueball at a desk, and what appear to be some sexytimes.
* The view descends into Cueball's tower PC.
* Entering the computer's internals, we see a mouse plugged into the PS/2 (6-pin mini-DIN) connector. This is a visual pun, since the mouse is an actual rodent and not a handheld device.
* Next we dive into the CPU. We see a multi-layered pun on the question "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" There may be a pun with a chip's connector pin, but the more obvious reference is Randall's answer of 32,767 = 215 - 1, the largest possible value of a signed 16-bit integer. Adding one rolls back over to -32,768, which is 32,768 devils or "negative angels." (See [[571: Can't Sleep]] for a similar joke and a more elaborate explanation.)
* A blood-sucking mosquito appears to be "leeching" a torrent.
* A {{w|segfault}} is a problem with memory access.
* We zoom into a memory unit on the CPU. Cueball is being {{w|rickrolled}}, as indicated by the label "pixel on {{w|Rick Astley|Rick Astley's}} shoulder."
* A "fork();" command points at one of several unlabeled spermatazoa. Forking and sperm are capable of spawning "child processes."
* {{w|Peter Norton}} is the founder of {{w|Norton Antivirus}}. He is shown fighting a biological virus, rather than informatic malware.
* Showing the relative scale of {{w|carbon nanotubes}}, the suggestion is that these then lead on to a more megastructural {{w|Space Elevator}}, for which carbon nanotubes are often cited as a suitably strong component needed for the cable.
* We soon zoom into a silicon atom in the CPU. In the {{w|electron cloud}}, the squiggles made out of arrows are {{w|Feynman diagram}}s. A Feynman diagram in the shape of a stick figure is saying "Sup?", a pun on the "Sup" particle (supersymmetric partner 'squark' to the Up quark) and an abbreviation of the greeting "What's up?."
* An 'iPod Femto' is shown, as a pun on the '{{w|iPod Nano}}' (both are {{w|SI prefixes}}), both of which refer to units far smaller than any iPod that has ever, or likely will ever, be created.
* {{w|Brian Greene}} is a theoretical physicist and {{w|Popular science|pop scientist}} who discusses the nature of the universe. The picture of him knitting is a pun on {{w|string theory}} and PBS miniseries, {{w|The Fabric of the Cosmos}}. The term 'knitting furiously' shows up in the 1857 Volume 14, page 46 of {{w|The Monthly Packet}}
* The {{w|Planck length}} (<big>ℓ</big>P) is the smallest theoretically measurable distance, defined by three fundamental constants in physics: the {{w|speed of light}} in a vacuum (c), {{w|Planck constant|Planck's constant}} (h), and the {{w|gravitational constant}} (G). The Planck length is vastly smaller than any known particle that isn't a point mass, and modern physics is a long way from being able to investigate such a scale.

==Transcript==
:Sizes Accurate on a vertical log scale
:[Series of images of characters doing various things. The things they are doing are listed in left to right order.]
:Cueball and Megan playing in a ball pen
:Megan using witchcraft to ban vista "Out, Vista!"
:Ponytail and Megan play Rock Band
:A couple is having sex under the cover in bed.
:[Below this series of images, an image of a man on the computer.]
:Cueball is on a computer and the image expands as it goes down. Here are the labels from left to right, up to down:
:CD
:DVD
:Case
:North Bridge
:PS/2
:Mouse (rodent)
:RAM
:CPU Socket Pin
:32,767 Angels Dancing (one more and they'd roll over and become {{w|Two's complement|32,768 Devils}}), Rice, Torrent (a bug), CPU, upcoming segfault
:dust mite
:hair
:OVUM
:Data (a pixel on Rick Astley's shoulder), rust mite, fork();
:Peter Norton fighting a baxteriophage
:memory
:carbon nanotubes
:space elevator
:a line of silicon (Si), Electron Cloud, a man made out of arrows saying "sup?"
:silicon nucleus
:IPod femto
:Brian Greene knitting furiously ''clink, clink''

==Trivia==
*The ballpit inside the apartment is a reference to [[150: Grownups]], in which Megan filled her apartment with playpen balls.
*The structure next to the couple in bed could be an elliptical dish to increase the sound from their [[Loud Sex]].
*[[1162: Log Scale]] and [[482: Height]] are other comics about the use of log scales.
*[[271: Powers of One]] mocks the concept of getting cool effects by zooming in/out by, instead of a log scale, using powers of one.

{{comic discussion}}

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Talk:1005: SOPA

2021-01-14T03:10:48Z

Yfmcpxpj: Added archived links.

Anyone try the brightness-contrast with the XKCD [[521: 2008 Christmas Special|2008 x-mas Special]]? [[Special:Contributions/66.19.70.101|66.19.70.101]] 02:20, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

:Negative. [[Special:Contributions/108.233.253.211|108.233.253.211]] 02:53, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

:Yes. There is NO color information in those black panels, all pixels read 0x000000. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.53|108.162.216.53]] 20:52, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

:I tried it in Microsoft Office 2010 and got a faint, but very readable image just like the one above.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.42|141.101.99.42]] 18:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

What do they mean "typical XKCD fashion"? What other comics have hidden messages in them? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.91|173.245.48.91]] 22:11, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
:The "typical xkcd fashion" line wasn't referring to the exact scenario of a hidden message in the comic. It was referring to the tendency of xkcd comics to have deeper messages (besides the explicit point being made) that may not be immediately visible. [[User:NealCruco|NealCruco]] ([[User talk:NealCruco|talk]]) 19:13, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

To me, the phrasing "I'm getting totally blacked out" suggests that the narrator is getting blackout drunk. Does anyone else get this impression, or am I crazy? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.123|108.162.241.123]] 16:58, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
:Ah yes, I totally get that impression too. [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.115|103.22.201.115]] 14:45, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
:: Agreed. Added that to the explanation. [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 21:47, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

PDF links and DYN link on the comic page are no longer available.
:Added links to archived versions of these, around the time the comic was published. – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 03:10, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

1005: SOPA

2021-01-14T03:08:55Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Trivia */ Added archived links.

{{comic
| number = 1005
| date = January 18, 2012
| title = SOPA
| image = sopa.png
| titletext = In protest of SOPA, I'm currently getting totally blacked out.
}}

==Explanation==
SOPA, the {{w|Stop Online Piracy Act}} and PIPA, the {{w|Protect IP Act}}, were a pair of controversial bills being considered by the United States government in late 2011 and early 2012. The bills contained the ability for the US government to deny American internet users access to certain sites at a judge's request. These would be activated if the government could prove to a court that a site was primarily used to harbor illegally distributed copyrighted goods, such as video games, music, and TV shows.

Many people considered this to be censorship and were concerned that this could instead be used by larger corporations to squelch smaller competing sites who may not have the resources to challenge a "take-down notice" in court, should judges continually agree with the larger corporation.

As the bills gained infamy online, many popular websites and web comics participated in a mass protest on January 18, 2012, to announce their displeasure with the bill in an attempt to convince the House of Representatives to reverse their judgement, which had at the time been considered likely to pass if drafted.

This was [[xkcd|xkcd's]] participation in the protest. [[Randall]] discusses below the black panel that if he was having better copyright protection with these new acts then he would never have gotten this popular since his fans would not have been allowed to distribute the comic gaining him new followers.

In typical xkcd fashion, this comic contains several layers of depth that may not be immediately obvious to the casual observer. In this instance, the apparently solid-black region contains a hidden image revealed with simple brightness+contrast manipulation (or simply loading the image into Microsoft Paint and using the fill tool), with [[Black Hat]] saying "A message from sysadmins everywhere: Seriously, don't screw with DNS. If you break this internet, we are ''not'' making you a new one." This stems from the fact that sites could be ordered taken down by allowing manipulation of the {{w|DNS}} itself, effectively making a site completely disappear from the web. This court-enforced DNS manipulation was considered by many technical professionals to damage the underlying structure of the internet, as well as potentially criminalizing recent work to improve its security.

[[File:sopa hidden message.png||upright=2|The comic image with the message revealed.]]

The title text referred to a common theme across protesting sites: a {{w|Protests against SOPA and PIPA|blackout of the internet}}. Sites such as Google changed to a black background, while Wikipedia prevented access by linking their sites to a black page with white text explaining their participation. On the day of the protest, xkcd was similarly "blacked out," with all comics redirecting to this one. The humor is that Randall has jokingly misinterpreted this "blackout" to mean that he should instead protest by "getting totally {{w|Blacking out|blacked out}}" – i.e. by drinking so much {{w|Alcoholic drink|alcohol}} that he {{w|Drunk|gets drunk}}, {{w|Passing out|passes out}}, and wakes up the next day having no memory of his actions or experiences during his drunkenness; despite Randall's good intentions, this would probably not help the protest against SOPA/PIPA.

After the protest, the bills were postponed from being drafted on January 20, 2012.

==Transcript==
:[A completely black panel with white text. all non-capital letter, in square brackets:]
::[don't censor the web.]

:[Hidden in the background, and only visible under certain conditions, is an inverted Black Hat (i.e. white), with the text from above still visible written across his forehead. Above him is the first line of text, and then he speaks the next line:]
:A message from sysadmins everywhere:
:Black Hat: Seriously, don't screw with DNS. If you break this internet, we are ''not'' making you a new one.

:[Below the black panel is a visible message from Randall written normally black on white in xkcd style.]
:I make my living drawing xkcd, which wouldn't have been possible if people
:hadn't been able to freely share my comics with each other all over the internet.
:As a copyright holder and small business owner, I oppose SOPA and PIPA.
:[Randall Munroe's signature, with a little drawing of Cueball on one of the tails. Below that a last message.]
:''Randall Munroe''
:See the links below to learn more.

==Trivia==
*The following were the links and text listed below the last message (and below the comic):
:::Learn more:
:{{w|Electronic Frontier Foundation|EFF}}: [https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/One-Page-SOPA_0.pdf One-page guide to SOPA] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120118194022/https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/One-Page-SOPA_0.pdf archived])
:{{w|reddit}}: [http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html A technical overview of the SOPA and PIPA bills] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120118015844/http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html archived])
:{{w|Dyn (company)|DYN}}: [http://dyn.com/sopa-breaking-dns-parasite-stop-online-piracy/ How these bills would break DNS] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130321051254/http://dyn.com/blog/sopa-breaking-dns-parasite-stop-online-piracy archived])
:{{w|Electronic Frontier Foundation|EFF}}: [https://www.eff.org/free-speech-weak-link Free speech on the web] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120118014050/https://www.eff.org/free-speech-weak-link archived])
 
:::{{w|USA.gov|Act}}:
:[http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml Contact information for US elected officials] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120117165307/https://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml archived])

{{Comic discussion}}
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Talk:25: Barrel - Part 4

2021-01-13T02:42:49Z

Yfmcpxpj: Undo revision 204526 by Makers (talk) – revert spam.

The title text suggests that something bad has happened, not simply that he is swimming elsewhere or that Randall is disappointed the boy is no longer floating in the barrel. [[User:Grahame|Grahame]] ([[User talk:Grahame|talk]]) 05:30, 18 October 2013 (UTC)Grahame
:Fixed. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.45|108.162.216.45]] 02:54, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
:The title text suggests unhappiness at the knowledge that the boy is apparently no longer inside the barrel that has been preserving his life so far. We can speculate that something bad has happened, but a sad smiley does not do that for us. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58]] 01:12, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
:: Agreed - the sadness could be that the boy has embarked on a new stage of his adventure, and we're not able to follow it.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.16|141.101.76.16]] 10:28, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

532: Piano

2021-01-10T02:51:20Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Attempt a more direct explanation.

{{comic
| number = 532
| date = January 19, 2009
| title = Piano
| image = piano.png
| titletext = Good thing he didn't make it smaller, or it'd need someone three inches tall to play it.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic is the reverse of the [http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/old90/304.html "twelve inch pianist" joke] that appeared in the rec.humor.funny {{w|Usenet}} {{w|Usenet newsgroup|newsgroup}}.

In the original joke, a man found a genie in a bottle, and it is implied that he wished for a "twelve inch ''penis''," but the genie misheard him and instead granted him a "twelve inch ''pianist''." The crux is that the word ''pianist'' sounds similar to the word ''penis''; the joke also relies on the common trope of {{w|genies}} granting {{w|wishes}} (as in the tale of '''''{{w|Aladdin|Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp}}'''''), and the common stereotype that larger penises are more desirable.

In this comic, the opposite happens: Cueball wished for a "twelve inch ''pianist''" to play his miniature piano, but was misheard by the genie, implying that the genie instead granted him a "twelve inch ''penis''." Megan has understood this implication, and therefore wants to have sex with Cueball (in accordance with the aforementioned stereotype).

The title text suggests that if Cueball had made a smaller piano – and had thus wished for a smaller ''pianist'' – he would have instead received a ''smaller penis'', making him ''less'' desirable according to the stereotype.

Genies (or the magic lamps containing them) are mentioned in at least four other comics:
*[[152: Hamster Ball]]
*[[879: Lamp]]
*[[1391: Darkness]]
*[[2193: Well-Ordering Principle]]

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is holding a box with an open lid. A miniature piano is inside. Megan is looking at it]
:Cueball: My hobby is making miniatures. Check this out — it's a fully-functional grand piano.
:Megan: Woah — beautiful.

:[Cueball looks at the miniature piano.]
:Cueball: Sadly, I've never heard what proper music sounds like on it—the keys are too small to play.

:[Cueball closes lid to the piano.]
:Cueball: I once asked a genie for someone who could play it for me, but I think he misheard.
:Megan: ...are you doing anything later?

==Trivia==
For the record, pianist /'piənɪst/ and penis /'pinɪs/ are near homophones in English. This is because pianist has a different stress pattern than piano /pi'æno/. The vagaries of the English language.

{{comic discussion}}
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Talk:532: Piano

2021-01-10T01:36:22Z

Yfmcpxpj: Undo revision 204105 by 162.158.183.205 (talk) – not vandalism, just discussion about the comic.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but by looking at the size of the piano compared with Cueball and having read the title text, I wonder if the joke might be that he wished for a 4-5 inch penis instead? I wasn't sure enoough to go ahead an change it though.{{unsigned|Athang}}
: If you look at the piano compared to Cueball's forearm plus hand, they are approximately the same length. Considering how the average male human is slightly shorter in height (1.7 m) than a grand piano is long (2 m), a to-scale pianist would be slightly shorter than Cueball's forearm. The average length of a 1.7 m tall person's forearm plus hand is about 47 cm, so the pianist would need to be about 40 cm. (1.7:2 = 0.85 ratio. 47 cm * 0.85 = 40 cm.) 40 cm is almost 16 inches. In [[526: Converting to Metric]], 14 cm is labeled "penis", and according to the {{w|Kinsey Institute}}, the largest medically recorded was 13.5 inches (34 cm).

:Alternatively, the title text might have been saying "Good thing [the genie] didn't make [his penis] smaller [than it was before?], or [his penis would] need someone three inches tall to play [with] it." [[User:Tryc|Tryc]] ([[User talk:Tryc|talk]]) 15:20, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

:The extremely clear implication is that he asked for a 12-inch pianist, echoing the original joke. Occam's Razor and Megan's response support this view. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]]

Currently, this comic is listed as being in the "My Hobby" series, but it doesn't fit the series description. It's not phrased as if this is Randall's hobby, it's more situation-specific than the other My Hobby comics, and the title doesn't start with "My Hobby:". Should it be removed from the list? [[User:Sciepsilon|Sciepsilon]] ([[User talk:Sciepsilon|talk]]) 22:19, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
:The first two words from Cueball are: "My hobby...". The category is appropriate here. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:16, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
:Agreed. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]]
:Disagreed. It has nothing to do with the other "my hobby" comics, which all describes some weird trolling activity. This is just a guy making miniatures, a much more normal hobby. The ensuing panels of discussion doesn't fit the pattern either. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.119|108.162.254.119]] 20:21, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
:Also disagreed. The "my hobby" comics are about Randall's, and not Cueball's (albeit his alter-ego) hobbies. They all begin vey clearly with the phrase "My hobby:" in superscript before describing that hobby for comedic effect. Here, Cueball's hobby is not the subject and punchline of the comic, but rather the set-up for the joke about the size of his erm... member. It might meet the letter, but misses the spirit of the "my hobby" rubric. Any person searching for a comic in the "my hobby" series would be pretty surprised to find this one. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.21|108.162.219.21]] 08:47, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
::I agree with the disagreement, it's clearly not a My Hobby entry. But I still think it wouldn't hurt to have it in that category, for inclusiveness. Clearly, some subset of the proles think of it that way, so including it will help them, meanwhile harm nobody else. —[[User:Kazvorpal|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal|talk]]) 14:56, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
;The pianis<s>t</s> section
Because ''someone'' doesn't understand the joke, I'll explain it here: "Twelve-inch penis" sounds similar to "twelve-inch pianist", so the genie in the joke and the genie mentioned in the comic misheard it as the other. Try saying it out loud in English. [[User:MrGameZone|0100011101100001011011010110010101011010011011110110111001100101]] ([[User talk:MrGameZone|talk page]]) 04:34, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

:There is no mention of a "twelve-inch pianist" at this comic at all! And jokes I can find only misunderstandings on words like bucks/ducks and similar. The penis issue is always only raised at some comments. Furthermore the spelling "penis(t)" for "pianist" would be bad English — does this slang really exist? If so it has to be explained. Second: The link at the explain doesn't explain the penis issue. And finally citing the title text "Good thing he didn't make it smaller, or it'd need someone three inches tall to play it." would mean that a three inches tall Megan would have to "play" with a much smaller penis. Those penis jokes are still annoying, Randall just mentions a piano. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:10, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

::''Twelve. Inch. Piano.''

::The "bucks/ducks" jokes are ''directly'' based off of the "twelve-inch pianist" joke.

::It's a pun. "Pianist" sounds like "penis", and "penis" sounds like "pianist". Seriously, the only difference between the two is the "an".

::The link ''does'' address the "penis/pianist" issue. Read the last line carefully. It says that because of the genie's poor hearing, instead of the wish he wanted, he got a twelve-inch pianist. He wished for a twelve-inch penis and ended up with a twelve-inch pianist.

::And the "three-inch person playing with a three-inch penis" just came from Tryc horribly overthinking it. The title text says that if Cueball made a three-inch piano instead of a twelve-inch one, the genie would've misheard "three-inch pianist" as "three-inch penis", which is less preferable to a twelve-inch one.

::I'm trying my best to not be rude, but the joke is right there and you can't notice it. [[User:MrGameZone|0100011101100001011011010110010101011010011011110110111001100101]] ([[User talk:MrGameZone|talk page]]) 21:23, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
:::I still can't see that Randall does mention any "Twelve Inch" issues here. So, if that is the first imagination to some people it has to be EXPLAINED. The link here isn't helpful, Gooogle neither.
:::According to all my findings I would recommend a first section to explain the comic itself and then a second section how "penis-addicted" people would interpret this.
:::And remember the miniature trebuchet from [[1190: Time]]. Also a penis???
:::--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:41, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

::::Ughhhhhhhh it's getting harder and harder to explain this to you
::::Could someone help me out, here? [[User:MrGameZone|0100011101100001011011010110010101011010011011110110111001100101]] ([[User talk:MrGameZone|talk page]]) 06:49, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

:::::I'm trying it simple: If this is a common joke somewhere in the US, maybe Midwest, or East, or wherever it has to be explained by that manner.
:::::The link to [http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/old90/304.html rec.humor.funny] isn't a helpful explain because there is NO penis at this entire page.
:::::I'm only calling for a better explain!
:::::--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:19, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
::::::The cited joke is an obvious pun on penis, without which the joke is dead. The comic is an obvious reversal of the obvious pun. There is ample provided context. If you can't provide concrete evidence/sources to refute the concrete source cited in the explanation, don't keep marking it as incomplete on the grounds that you don't get it. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 20:22, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
:::::::I was calling for a better explain. Done now by me and I still do not claim it's perfect. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:17, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
::::::::So my NON PERFECT edit is removed by admin David. But please understand that the "In the original..." statement implies that the page on "rec.humor.funny" is the original. There is still no explain to the origin of this original penis joke for non native English speakers. Even Goooogle isn't helpful. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:34, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::The explanation already provides a source for the joke, an explanation and guides the punchline for the slow. Your version of the explanation introduced six grammatical errors and omits context for the joke that the comic is derived from. Googling "Pianist penis genie joke" returns a pagefull of relevant results, including two Q/A sites where people ask for it to be explained, a Reddit thread where the original joke is discussed in great detail and the xkcd forum page for the comic where people repeatedly refer to the cited joke as the basis of the comic. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 20:48, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
::::::::::Throwing in the towel. I was trying to get a better explain for non native English speakers. I accept this knock out. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:45, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

I find it interesting that for at least two of the Penis related comics there has been a very long discussion with Dgbrt before he could accept (or accept his defeat here on these pages) that Randall (as he actually often does) makes these kind of juvenile penis jokes (or your mother etc.) The other one I have seen is [[450: The Sea]] [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 22:50, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
:I always thought the joke was supposed to be that the asked for a miniature pianist, and Megan's response was sarcasm.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.217.89|108.162.217.89]] 02:18, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

;MY HOBBY

It reads"[[my hobby]] is ..." should it be included in the series? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 01:43, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
:There is some discussion on this point near the top of the discussion section. It seems to have been agreed that the comic doesn't fit the normal style of the typical 'My Hobby' comics, and therefore wasn't really appropriate to be in that category. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 07:49, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

1644: Stargazing

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{{comic
| number = 1644
| date = February 17, 2016
| title = Stargazing
| image = stargazing.png
| titletext = Some of you may be thinking, 'But wait, isn't the brightest star in our sky the Sun?' I think that's a great question and you should totally ask it. On the infinite tree of possible conversations spread out before us, I think that's definitely the most promising branch.
}}

==Explanation==
This is the first comic in the [[:Category:Stargazing|Stargazing]] series. It was followed by [[2017: Stargazing 2]] two and a half years later and [[2274: Stargazing 3]] four years later.

This comic opens on [[Megan]] as the host for a {{w|stargazing}} TV show, or simply a stargazing tour. She claims to be a doctor in {{w|astronomy}} though her remarks, however enthusiastic, may call this into question. (Originally the host was suspected to be a spoof on {{w|Brian Cox (physicist)|Brian Cox}}, see [[#Relevant TV-shows|below]], but at some later point [[Randall]] changed his official transcript thus making the host female rather than male as in the original version, see the [[#Trivia|trivia]] section below. Thus now the host is clearly Megan, which it could not have been originally when the host was described as a man by Randall).

Throughout the comic the host's tone and choice of words becomes increasingly unprofessional, referring to most of the stars as "shitty," personifying them based on different astronomical observations, and providing little useful information on the study of stars or how they work.

It seems that this is not an isolated issue as the television host mentions that people keep asking her whether or not she is a real astronomer.

The host also continuously glosses over the arguably less exciting portions of a typical presentation on astronomy sharing only what she sees as "the good stuff." This penchant for only caring about something if it is interesting extends past astronomy as well as the host is too bored when reading the dictionary to look up the meaning of astronomer.

The comic derives much of its humor from the absurdity of the host's comments on various astronomical bodies. Although not technically incorrect, the way she presents the information is far from informative. (See details below on [[#The host's observations|the host's observations]]).

One of her observations regards the fact that {{w|Sirius}} is a {{w|binary star}}, a system where two stars orbit each other. So even though it is the brightest star as seen from Earth we only really see one of them, as the other is, to quote the host, "not even trying". Sirius A is "large" and "bright" {{w|main sequence}} white star, while Sirius B is a {{w|white dwarf}} with a little under half the mass, 0.49% the radius and only 0.22% the luminosity of Sirius A.

{{w|Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda}} is the largest galaxy in our {{w|Local Group}}. It is 220,000 light years across and contains a trillion stars. Humans have difficulty conceptualizing distances of this scale. Suffice to say that it is very large.{{Citation needed}}

{{w|Betelgeuse}} is the 9th brightest star visible from earth. One of its prominent features is its visible redness. Within the next million years (or maybe only 100,000 years) it is expected to explode as a {{w|supernova}}, which will certainly be a spectacular sight. It could happen anytime now, and the host hopes it will be in her lifetime.

In the title text it is mentioned that the {{w|Sun}} is also a star and of course is much brighter than Sirius seen from Earth, and thus Sirius is technically not the brightest star in our sky (although it is in the night sky). The title text sarcastically encourages the audience to raise that obvious but irrelevant point (a standard joke when people mention bright stars) instead of asking a more interesting, informative, or fruitful question, when there are so many to ask regarding astronomy.

See also [[1371: Brightness]] and [[1342: Ancient Stars]]. Saying cool things about space to make people like you is mentioned in [[1746: Making Friends]].

===The host's observations===
Here is a list of the host's observations:
*Most {{w|Bright Star Catalogue|visible stars}} are still very faint, and just become background to the bright {{w|stars}} that form the named {{w|constellations}}.
**The host correctly states that they are just dots. (This is also true for the bright stars, but at least they are clearly distinguishable).
*{{w|Sirius}} is the {{w|Apparent magnitude|brightest}} star in our {{w|List of brightest stars|night sky}}. But it is not the brightest object in the night sky, as several of the planets, especially {{w|Venus}} and {{w|Jupiter}}, and of course the {{w|Moon}} are much brighter. It is also far from being one of the most {{w|Absolute magnitude|luminous stars}} in the {{w|Milky Way}}, but its proximity to Earth makes it the brightest in the night sky. There are {{w|List_of_most_luminous_stars#Data|twenty visible stars}} that are more luminous than Sirius, {{w|List of most luminous stars|none of which}} come even close to being in the top 100 of the most luminous stars observed today.
**The host thus names Sirius as the star in charge since it outshines all the others as seen from the {{w|Earth}}.
*Sirius is actually a star system consisting of two stars as it is a {{w|binary star}} system. But where Sirius A is twice the size of the {{w|Sun}} and much brighter, then Sirius B is now just a dim {{w|white dwarf}}, the remains from a much larger star that became a {{w|red giant}} before shedding its outer layers and collapsing into its current state around 120 million years ago. So now Sirius A completely outshines Sirius B, which actually is now a dead star with no further fusion going on inside its core.
**This is construed by the host as it is barely even trying, as it is now only radiating away the rest of the heat from the now exposed core.
*{{w|Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda}} is a {{w|spiral galaxy}}, like the Milky Way, and it is the largest galaxy in the {{w|Local Group}} where our own galaxy the Milky Way is the second largest. It is one of a few visible objects that are located outside the Milky Way. It is "only" 2.5 million light-years from the Sun and it is heading our way (or vice versa), and will {{w|Andromeda–Milky Way collision|collide with the Milky way}} in about 4 billion years (before the Sun goes into {{w|Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaustion|its red giant phase}}). Being 220,000 light years across and consisting of a trillion stars, it is somewhere between 1.2-2.2 times wider than the Milky Way and has 2.5-10 times as many stars. (The local group was also mentioned two comics ago, in [[1642: Gravitational Waves]], together with the much less well known third largest galaxy in the group the {{w|Triangulum Galaxy}}).
**It is therefore true when the host says that it is too big to try to understand, and thinking about it will make your head spin, so she suggests we do not think about it.
*{{w|Betelgeuse}} is a clearly visible (9th brightest) {{w|Red_supergiant|red supergiant}} {{w|Semiregular_variable_star|variable star}} located in the {{w|Orion (constellation)|constellation of Orion}}. It is one of the largest and most luminous observable stars (12th) and one of the few where it is clear that the light is not white. Most people can see that it is slightly red, whereas most other stars are so faint that they look white despite having different colors (when seeing Orion's two brightest stars, to remember which is which between Rigel and Betelgeuse, its diagonal opposite, just remember: Rigel is "R" like blue, and Betelgeuse is "B" like red). It is expected that Betelgeuse, being at a late stage of its {{w|Stellar_evolution|evolution}}, {{w|Betelgeuse#Approaching_supernova|will go supernova}} within the next million years as a {{w|type II supernova}}. The exact time when it will become a {{w|Supernova}} is so uncertain that it could [http://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/betelgeuse-will-explode-someday#explode just as likely happen tomorrow] as in a million years. When it happens it will not be dangerous to anyone on Earth, but it will likely be visible even during the day, as it may even become as bright as the full Moon.
**When it does go nova, it will be a fantastic spectacle for everyone, but especially for anyone who likes the ''good stuff'' in space like the host, who cannot wait for the star to explode. Clearly she hopes it will be in her lifetime, and, although this is unlikely, there is a small chance that it might just happen.
*A {{w|meteor}} (also known as {{w|shooting star}}), is debris from space that rains down on Earth, and burns up in the atmosphere. This happens all the time, but you need to be either lucky, patient, or know the right time for one of the {{w|meteor showers}} to see one. Often they are visible for so short a time period, that it is difficult to share the experience with anyone, as it will be gone by the time they turn their head to look where you are pointing.
**The host becomes very excited when she spots such a meteor, especially because it is likely that her audience got to share the experience with her, as they were already looking in the same direction as her. But still she asks if they saw it, because it is so short lived.
*{{w|Outer space}} is the void that exists between {{w|Astronomical object|celestial bodies}}, including the Earth. There is by definition nothing there but {{w|vacuum}}, and the interesting part of space is thus not the space but the astronomical objects found out there.
**The host says that ''space is cool'', which is a very un-astronomical comment, as explained above. Also her excitement for a simple shooting star is cause for the suspicion that is raised after her space comment.

===Relevant TV-shows===
The comic could be a reference to BBC's ''{{w|Stargazing Live}}'', which {{w|Brian Cox (physicist)|Brian Cox}} has appeared in since 2011. If drawn in xkcd style he would likely look like Megan. He has a PhD in high-energy {{w|particle physics}}, but not astronomy. The newest season of the show aired during January 2016 just a month before this comic's release. Brian Cox has also been the presenter of several other science programs, especially such as the ''{{w|Wonders of the Solar System}}'', ''{{w|Wonders of the Universe}}'' and ''{{w|Wonders of Life (TV series)|Wonders of Life}}''. Originally the host was described as male in the official transcript (see [[#Trivia|trivia]] below, making this seem more likely. for some reason Randall changed the host to female in the transcript later. Very strange, but for sure when he was male, it was obviously a Brian Cox spoof.

It could also be a reference to {{w|Jack Horkheimer}}'s PBS shows ''Star Hustler'' and ''{{w|Star Gazers}}''. Horkheimer, however, does not at all look like Megan, and he died 6 years ago. But he was not a doctor in astronomy, only getting into it when he started volunteering at the Miami Museum of Science's planetarium. He ended up writing shows for the planetarium and the PBS series developed from there. He rarely covered facts about the night sky that couldn't be found in any basic reference (possibly because the show was aimed at children and non-astronomy buffs), although he did get more in-depth about current astronomical events such as {{W|Comet Hale–Bopp}}.

==Transcript==
:[A thin panel with Megan as a TV-host is holding her hands up. She is drawn in white on a black background. Behind her is an audience drawn in faint gray lines consisting of Hairy (to the left) and two Cueball-like guys and Ponytail (seen in a rare full face position) to the right of the host. One of the Cueball-like guys is partly hidden behind the host.]
:Host: Welcome to stargazing, with your host, me.
:Host: I'm a doctor or whatever.

:[Same scene as before but in a broader panel, and the host is now holding only one hand up with a finger pointing up. The audience is the same four people, but now Hairy has moved further to the left in the panel to make room for a Megan-like woman also to the left of the host.]
:Host: I'm not gonna waste your time on the shitty stars.
:Host: Just the good stuff.
:Host: Honestly half of 'em just look like dots.

:[A frame-less drawing with a zoom out showing the group of six people in black silhouette on a white background. Part of the ground beneath them is shown as a black pool. The host is pointing up with one hand. The people have been rearranged, so left of the host is now a Cueball-like guy and a Megan-like woman, and to the right is the other Cueball-like guy, then Ponytail (seen from the side as usual) and Hairy. All are looking up following the host's directions.]
:Host: This is Sirius. It's the brightest star in our sky so it's in charge.
:Host: It's really two stars but one of them is barely even trying.
:Host: This is Andromeda, it's too big to think about, so let's not.

:[Zoom in of the host's upper body, again drawn in white on a black background. She is looking right gesturing with one arm raised, and the other still pointing up with a finger stretched out. Her audience is no longer shown.]
:Host: That red stars is Betelgeuse. It's gonna explode someday.
:Host: Can't happen soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. I-
:Host: ''Holy shit did you see that meteor!?!''
:Host: Space is ''awesome!''

:[Same scene as the previous panel, but the host has turned towards left looking at someone in the audience (not shown) who speaks off-screen. She has taken both her hands down for the first time.]
:Off-screen voice: Are you ''sure'' you're an astronomer?
:Host: People keep asking that, so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and ''wow'' is that book ever boring. No thank you.
:Off-screen voice: But-
:Host: ''Space!''

==Trivia==
*Randall changed the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/archive/4/48/20160221022727!stargazing.png original] posted version of the comic.
**The only thing that changed was in the third panel where '''''That's''' Andromeda'' was changed to the current version: '''''This is''' Andromeda''
*The official transcript originally used male pronouns for the TV host. It now (as of 2019) uses female pronouns for the host.
**The official transcripts seems to have been messed up on xkcd at the time being.
***The [http://xkcd.com/1644/info.0.json transcript for 1644] is thus at the moment a mix of that comics main info (top and bottom) which results in the correct title and title text, but the entire description in this transcript is describing the comic from two releases before no. [[1642]].
***This seems to be a general problem for comics released around that time...
***Thus the description of this comic, was first released when comic no. [[1646]] came out.
***This has not been corrected (4 years later at the time of writing)!
****So the official transcript for 1644 can be found [http://xkcd.com/1646/info.0.json here], together with the data for comic 1646.
**The current transcript is included here below:
::(Inverse color panel - white on black)
::[A television host in the foreground, speaking toward the reader. A group of other people are in the background behind them.]
::Host: Welcome to Stargazing, with your host, me. I'm a doctor or whatever.
::[She continues to talk.]
::Host: I'm not gonna waste your time on the shitty stars. Just the good tuff. Honestly half of 'em just look like dots.
::(Normal color panel - black on white)
::[A shot from far away of the host standing in the center of the group of people watching her, she points to the sky.]
::Host: This is Sirius. It's the brightest star in our sky so it's in charge. It's really two stars, but one of them is barely even trying. This is Andromeda. It's too big to think about, so let's not.
::(Inverse color panel)
::[Close-up on the host gesturing toward the sky behind her.]
::Host: That red star is Betelgeuse. It's gonna explode someday. Can't happen soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. I--
::HOLY SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT METEOR?!?!
::Space is awesome!
::[The host speaks to someone out of panel.]
::Other: Are you sure you're an astronomer?
::Host: People keep asking that, so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and wow is that book ever boring. No thank you.
::Other: But--
::Host: SPACE!
:*The original official transcript with male host is included here below (correcting a typo with a missing "s" in "stuff" and formatting to look like our normal transcripts):
::[A television host in the foreground, speaking toward the reader. A group of other people are in the background behind them.]
::Host: Welcome to Stargazing, with your host, me. I'm a doctor or whatever.
::[He continues to talk.]
::Host: I'm not gonna waste your time on the shitty stars. Just the good stuff. Honestly half of 'em just look like dots.
::[Normal color panel - black on white. A shot from far away of the host standing in the center of the group of people watching him, he points to the sky.]
::Host: This is Sirius. It's the brightest star in our sky so it's in charge. It's really two stars, but one of them is barely even trying. This is Andromeda. It's too big to think about, so let's not.
::[Inverse color panel. Close-up on the host gesturing toward the sky behind him.]
::Host: That red star is Betelgeuse. It's gonna explode someday. Can't happen soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. I-- ''HOLY SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT METEOR?!?!'' Space is ''awesome''!
::[The host speaks to someone out of panel.]
::Other: Are you ''sure'' you're an astronomer?
::Host: People keep asking that, so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and ''wow'' is that book ever boring. No ''thank'' you.
::Other: But--
::Host: ''SPACE!''

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124: Blogofractal

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Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Trackback meaning.

{{comic
| number = 124
| date = July 5, 2006
| title = Blogofractal
| image = blogofractal.png
| titletext = Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphic design.
}}

==Explanation==
The {{w|Blogosphere}} is a blanket term for all the blogs on the internet that link together and share information to the extent that the term "blogosphere" arose to describe the collective of blogs. This comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by a {{w|fractal}} of blogs.

{{w|Edward Tufte}} is a statistician who worked on data visualization and wrote books on the subject, including "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information," as mentioned in the title text.

{| class="wikitable"
! Meme !! Explanation
|-
|TripMaster Monkey says || {{w|Tripmaster Monkey}} is a book by {{w|Maxine Hong Kingston}} about Wittman Ah Sing, an American graduate of Chinese heritage. 'Monkey says' may be based on the saying 'Monkey See, Monkey Do' and/or the children's game Simon Says.
|-
|118th Post!! || A riff on the "first post" phenomenon.
|-
|Wikiconstitution! || The Onion wrote [http://www.theonion.com/articles/congress-abandons-wikiconstitution,5026/ a 2005 article] about putting the {{w|Constitution}} on a Wiki to allow public editing.
|-
|OMG || Common acronym for "Oh My God," often used in messaging.
|-
|DeCSS || {{w|DeCSS}} was a piece of code for decrypting DVDs. There was a significant effort to prevent this code from being distributed, which triggered the {{w|Streisand effect}}.
|-
|Casemod your Boyfriend!! || {{w|Case modding}} is the modification of a computer chassis (or less commonly other devices), usually to make it more aesthetically pleasing. Casemodding a boyfriend would therefore attempt to make him more attractive.
|-
|FLICKR || A well known [https://www.flickr.com/ photo sharing site].
|-
|They're saying on Kos that || The {{w|Daily Kos}} is a web blog that publishes news and opinions about American politics, from a liberal standpoint. Alternatively, {{w|Kos}} is a Greek island and popular holiday destination.
|-
|http://slashdot.org/articl || {{w|Slashdot}} is a technology-related news website frequented by geeks.
|-
|tagCloud || A {{w|Tag Cloud}} is a visual representation of keyword meta-data, usually with font size increasing with importance.
|-
|Cory Doctorow is a little upset about copyright law. || This is an understatement. {{w|Cory Doctorow}} is a strong activist in this area.
|-
|Hey guys what if Google is evil?!? || {{w|Don't be evil}} is the corporate motto of Google, however the sheer quantity of data held by Google is a somewhat scary thought. A number of conspiracy theories exist that [[792|Google is evil]], bent on world domination, run by the government/CIA/FBI/illuminati/aliens.
|-
|I'll sleep with you for a FreeIpods deal. || This is a parody on how desperate people are in getting either iPhones (extremely popular yet expensive smartphones from Apple) or getting laid. (Coincidentally, years later, someone tried to sell her virginity in exchange for an iPhone: http://www.techinasia.com/chinese-girl-sells-virginity-iphone4/ )
|-
|FirstPsot!! || Some users on sites that accept comments will race to write the first comment (usually saying something like "First post!" or some variation thereof). In this variation, the user has misspelt "post" in the rush to have the first post.
|-
|Snakes on an I don't Even Care Anymore || There were many jokes about {{w|Snakes on a Plane}} where a supposedly new movie to come out was named "Snakes on a ______." Clearly this person is tired of those jokes. See also [[107: Snakes on a Plane! 2]]
|-
|KiwiWiki || A New Zealand (Kiwi) related wiki exists at [http://kiwiwiki.co.nz kiwiwiki.co.nz], and this is likely included because Kiwi is an anagram of Wiki.
|-
|CSS || Reference to {{w|Cascading Style Sheets}}.
|-
|Comments (0) || The number of comments is zero, sometimes indicating that nobody cares.
|-
|Blogotesseract || This is a joke on the word "blogosphere." This comic contains many such jokes where the word sphere is replaced by some other object. A {{w|Tesseract|tesseract}} is a four-dimensional analog of the cube.
|-
|¡play games! || One of the most frequent ads are those that mention "Play free games!". While these sites are real, they tend to be collections of Flash-based games taken from other sites from the Internet.
|-
|[RSS icon.] || {{w|RSS}} is a standard for web feeds.
|-
|is AYB retro yet? || The shoot-'em-up game "Zero Wing" on SEGA's Genesis console features an English translation so terrible it has long been a source of memetic humor. The line in question is, "'''A'''ll '''Y'''our '''B'''ase are belong to us!"
|-
|Google Google Google Apple Google Goog || ...a reference to how Apple is going into a prominence that rivals the ubiquitousness of Google, perhaps?
|-
|Cheney totally shot a dude!!! || A reference to the {{w|Dick Cheney hunting incident}}.
|-
|Watch this toddler get owned by a squirrel!!! || An example of clickbait, usually a sensationalized headline that links to a page or video that is either of passing interesting or none at all. 'Funny' videos of animals and babies/toddlers tend to spread like wildfire online.
|-
|Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers || A reference to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE a widely circulated video], captured at a developers' conference, featuring a perspiring {{w|Steve Ballmer}} chanting the word "developers."
|-
|I installed a Mac Mini inside ANOTHER Mac Mini! || This is most likely a reference to how Mac minis are popular to install just about anywhere due to their small size. For example, they are commonly installed to use with a TV (“HTPC”), as small home servers, in cars and trailers, and even mounted on the back of monitors. However, installing an entire Mac mini inside another Mac mini (especially of the same generation) would be a very challenging, if not impossible, task. This could also be referencing Hackintoshes, that is, installing a Macintosh operating system in a Windows-designed machine. In this case, installing a “Mac Mini” (informally referring to macOS (Mac OS X at the time of the comic)) inside another is a relatively trivial, albeit meta, task.
|-
|Check out this vid of Jon Stewart || {{w|Jon Stewart}} was the host of ''{{w|The Daily Show}}'', a late-night political comedy/satire program.
|-
|9-11 <-> Trent Lott! || This could refer to the {{rw|9/11|conspiracy theories}} regarding the {{w|September 11 attacks|incident from September 11, 2001}}, the date when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City fell. While the popular story is that Arab/Muslim terrorists deliberately crashed their planes into the towers with the purpose of killing infidels, the theory tells that the government ordered the intentional demolition of the towers. In this post, the poster linked the September 11 incident to {{w|Trent Lott}} (a former US Senator).
|-
|Web 7.1 || This is a parody of {{w|Web 2.0}}, a concept in which content from the Internet is provided beyond the webpage. Despite its name, Web 2.0 does not really involve making an entirely new series of tubes or updating the existing ones, a point that the post parodies.
|-
|Kryptonite™ locks vulnerable to "keys!" || Around 2004, it was demonstrated that some tubular pin tumbler locks of the diameter used on Kryptonite locks could easily be opened with the shaft of an inexpensive Bic ballpoint pen of matching diameter, and this was widely reported.
|-
|Interesting post! Check out my blog, it has useful info on CARBON MONOXIDE LITIGATION || An example of a spam comment found where users can comment.
|-
|FIREFLY!! || Reference to {{w|Firefly (TV series)|Firefly}}, a US television series that was cancelled after only 14 episodes. Despite its short run, it amassed a strong fanbase that used internet petitions and blogs to help fuel the push for the film {{w|Serenity_(film)|Serenity}}.
|-
|HELP ME || This is a simple post where someone is requesting help in hopes that the readers of the blog would bring solutions. Good example - help me to [https://writeanypapers.com/ write papers for me]
|-
|Engadget || [http://engadget.com Engadget] is a technology-related website.
|-
|Boing Boing || Reference to collaborative blog site [http://boingboing.net/ Boing Boing].
|-
|Gizmodo || [http://gizmodo.com Gizmodo] is a technology-related website hosted by Gawker.
|-
|MAKE Blog: DIY baby || This refers to various DIY (do it yourself) blogs. In this case, the blog post would refer to how to make a baby, which, most likely, would lead into pornographic territory. This post might also refer to the "How is babby formed?" meme.
|-
|My friend has a band!! || Blogs and other social media are common tools used by people to promote their (and their friend's) bands.
|-
|Jon released an exploit in the protocol for meeting girls. || Exploits bypass hardware/software security, permitting cracking or simple extension of the current capabilities of the hardware/software. (One example: an exploit in video-game consoles would permit someone to play homebrew applications or pirated games among other things.) In this case, the exploit went beyond the technological, permitting the exploiter to meet girls.
|-
|Internets! || "Internets" is a memetic version of saying "Internet".
|-
|Howard Dean? || {{w|Howard Dean}} was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. He also ran for president in 2004, becoming famous among liberals for his unabashedly progressive positions, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j6xm7e5bJo also for a memetic scream].
|-
|So I hear there's a hurricane. || Blogging shut-ins can be hilariously out of touch with the outside world. Given the date of this comic (2006 was a slow year for hurricanes), the clueless blogger is probably asking about 2005's {{w|Hurricane Katrina}}, perhaps the most devastating hurricane to hit New Orleans.
|-
|We should elect this dude! || People have strong political opinions reflected in the Internet.
|-
|Google Maps is da best!! || Google Maps is a world mapping service from Google. "Da" is a common intentional misspelling of "the."
|-
|Moderation: +1 Sassy || A joke on Slashdot's moderating mechanism. Each post can get a moderation that consists of a score (+1/-1) and a reason (Insightful/Funny/Troll/etc.) "Sassy" is not one of the standard reasons.
|-
|RSS! || {{w|RSS}} again.
|-
|A-list || the most popular bloggers in the blogosphere are referred to as A-list, following a similar designation for actors. Also, possibly a reference to "A List Apart," a blog & publishing company focused mainly on emerging web technologies.
|-
|<3 || Emoticon for a heart.
|-
|Trackback URL? || {{w|Trackback}} is a mechanism by which a blog receives a notification when another blog has linked to it, similar to {{w|pingback}}.
|-
|I shot a man in Reno check it out on YouTube! || The first half of this line comes from Jonny Cash's song "Folsom Prison Blues," which is "But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die". The second half turns it around, because people often say "I did X, watch it on YouTube."
|-
|HEY LOOK ROBOTS! || Both real-world experiments with robotics and science fiction stories involving robots are popular on the Internet.
|-
|Net Neutrality! || {{w|Net neutrality}} is a hot topic. It is the principle that ISPs and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally. There is great debate as to what level this should be enforced or not, and whether it should be regulated.
|-
|Friends Only. || Personal blogging and social media websites typically have privacy settings that allow you to control who can see the posts. The "Friends Only" setting would prevent anyone who the user has not granted the "Friend" status to from seeing the content.
|-
|Dupe! || A common note if the same thing gets posted twice on some forum (Short for "duplicate."). There are two instances of this in the comic, therefore one of them is a dupe itself.
|-
|AJAX? || AJAX is a generic brand found in Mickey Mouse Works cartoons. It is also a JavaScript-based web technology enabling complex user interfaces ("{{w|Ajax (programming)|Asynchronous JavaScript + XML}}") and a brand of cleaning powder.
|-
|COMPLY || This is likely a reference to science fiction stories where a race of cyborgs or collection of robots tries to assimilate, force compliance upon, or otherwise enslave all life in the universe.
|-
|Cowboy Neal || One of the original Slashdot editors.
|-
|Blogodrome || This is a parody on the word "blogosphere."
|-
|Hey look I got Linux running on my tonsils! || People would often brag about getting Linux to run on strange hardware, from toasters to esoteric computers. This is taken to the ridiculous extreme of tonsils.
|-
|Look alive, blogonauts! || Possibly a comment from a moderator of a dying blog attempting to motivate their users into generating more content.
|-
|Cafepress cockrings || Cafepress is a website that allows users to put pictures/logos on just about anything (T-shirts, mugs, etc.). Currently, however, cockrings are not available.
|-
|BOOBIES!! || Another reference to the "First Post" phenomenon. The popular news site FARK automatically changes entries of "First post" to "BOOBIES" and modifies the timestamp to be many hours in the future.
|-
|MIA || "Missing in Action," a term applied to people who fought in wars, yet were never found.
|-
|A Beowulf Cluster... of BLOGS!! || A {{w|Beowulf cluster}} is a computer cluster of computers networked together resulting in a high-performance parallel computing cluster. For a while, it was a fad to get one running on various strange platforms. This is a facetious example.
|-
|SPOILER ALERT || Often stated on the top of a post that contained spoilers. (See {{w|Spoiler (media)}}.)
|-
|You have been eaten by a Grue. || This is a reference to the first of the Zork games. When the protagonist enters a house, the protagonist would quickly enter a dark corridor. Attempting to travel without some form of light would lead to the message "You have been eaten by a Grue," ending the game. Said message became a meme.
|-
|Ruby on a monorail || A riff on the name {{w|Ruby on Rails}}, a common platform for web applications.
|-
|Lesbians! || Homosexual eroticism is rather popular on the Internet, doubly so with the opposite gender (e.g. lesbians with straight men).
|-
|DNF Released! || "Duke Nukem Forever," a memetically long overdue sequel to the popular first person shooter video game "Duke Nukem," was still unreleased at the time this comic was published; the blog is either a hoax of some kind or yet another jab at the long development cycle.
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|Steampunk || Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that involves the blending of futuristic technology with Victorian Era aesthetics and materials.
|-
|BLAG || "Blag" is a memetic form of "{{w|Blog|blog}}." This term was referred to in later comics like [[148: Mispronouncing]], [[181: Interblag]], and [[239: Blagofaire]]. Randall also refers to his own xkcd blog as a "[https://blog.xkcd.com/ blag]."
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|PONIES! || A pony is a short horse. This could also refer to the Hasbro line of "My Little Pony" toys, popular with young girls. 
|-
|Xeni found some porn! || In some roleplaying games, whenever a character finds something, the message "[name] found [item]" appears. In this case, Xeni found pornography. Xeni probably refers to Xeni Jardin, a BoingBoing editor.
|-
|IRONY || This could be a reference to criticisms that the Internet doesn't know what "irony" means.
|-
|LIARS! || This could be a reference to a recurring comment indicating that the original post is fabricated.
|-
|Linux on Rails! || Another riff on the name {{w|Ruby on Rails}}.
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|Blogocube || This is just a parody of the name "blogosphere."
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|del.icio.us! || Del.icio.us (this post making a pun on the word "delicious!", obviously) is a bookmark-sharing service. After complaints that Yahoo ate and killed the service, it was sold traded around for a while; it still exists, but under new software and management.
|-
|404 || "Web page not found," probably the most common error gotten in a web browser: {{w|HTTP 404}}.
|-
|o.O || An emoticon indicating confusion.
|-
|Don't slam the source when you close it. || The original phrase (generally spoken from parents to children) is "Don't slam the door when you close it." This twists it around to refer to {{w|Closed source software}}.
|}

==Transcript==
:From the makers of the Blogosphere, Blogocube, and Blogodrome comes
:the Blogofractal

:[A large rectangle subdivided into rectangles in a fractal pattern, most with a phrase or word inside. Some subdivisions cannot be seen, as they are too small.]
:[Mostly left to right from top-left corner.]
:TripMaster Monkey says
:118th Post!!
:Wikiconstitution!
:OMG
:DeCSS
:Casemod your Boyfriend!!
:FLICKR
:They're saying on Kos that
:<nowiki>http://slashdot.org/articl</nowiki>
:tagCloud
:Cory Doctorow is a little upset about copyright law.
:Hey guys what if Google is evil?!?
:I'll sleep with you for a FreeIpods deal.
:FirstPsot!!
:Snakes on an I don't Even Care Anymore
:KiwiWiki
:CSS
:Comments (0)
:Blogotesseract
:¡play games!
:[RSS icon.]
:is AYB retro yet?
:Google Google Google Apple Google Goog
:Cheney totally shot a dude!!!
:Watch this toddler get owned by a squirrel!!!
:Developers
:Developers
:Developers
:Developers
:I installed a Mac Mini inside ANOTHER Mac Mini!
:Check out this vid of Jon Stewart
:9-11 <-> Trent Lott!
:Web 7.1
:Kryptonite™ locks vulnerable to "keys!"
:Interesting post! Check out my blog, it has useful info on CARBON MONOXIDE LITIGATION
:FIREFLY!!
:HELP ME
:Engadget
:Boing Boing
:Gizmodo
:MAKE Blog: DIY baby
:My friend has a band!!
:Jon released an exploit in the protocol for meeting girls.
:Internets!
:Howard Dean?
:So I hear there's a hurricane.
:We should elect this dude!
:Google Maps is da best!!
:Moderation: +1 Sassy
:RSS!
:A-list
:<3
:Trackback URL?
:I shot a man in Reno check it out on YouTube!
:HEY LOOK ROBOTS!
:Net Neutrality!
:Friends Only.
:Dupe!
:AJAX?
:COMPLY
:Cowboy Neal
:Blogodrome
:Hey look I got Linux running on my tonsils!
:Look alive, blogonauts!
:Cafepress cockrings
:BOOBIES!!
:MIA
:A Beowulf Cluster... of BLOGS!!
:SPOILER ALERT
:Dupe!
:You have been eaten by a Grue.
:Ruby on a monorail
:Lesbians!
:DNF Released!
:Steampunk
:BLAG
:PONIES!
:Xeni found some porn!
:IRONY
:LIARS!
:Linux on Rails!
:Blogocube
:del.icio.us!
:404
:o.O
:Don't slam the source when you close it.

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739: Malamanteau

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{{comic
| number = 739
| date = May 12, 2010
| title = Malamanteau
| image = malamanteau.png
| titletext = The article has twenty-three citations, one of which is an obscure manuscript from the 1490s and the other twenty-two are arguments on LanguageLog.
}}

==Explanation==
A {{w|malapropism}} is the use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical utterance. An example of a {{w|malapropism}} is {{w|Yogi Berra}}'s statement: "Texas has a lot of electrical votes," rather than "electoral votes". A {{w|portmanteau}} is a word made up of two or more combined words. For example, motel is a portmanteau, from the words motor and hotel. A {{w|neologism}} is simply a newly coined word that is not yet in common use.

Here, Randall shows a hypothetical Wikipedia page of the word "malamanteau" which is both a portmanteau of "malapropism" and "portmanteau" and a neologism. The method used to create this new word is one of the very words used in the process. This is called a [[917|meta]] or "self-referential" joke.

"Malamanteau" was originally coined in 2007, when it was proposed by user [http://www.metafilter.com/user/17900 ludwig_van] on [http://www.metafilter.com Metafilter] as a term for language errors like "flustrated" (flustered & frustrated) and "misconscrewed" (misconstrued & screwed).

The bottom line of the comic (Ever notice how Wikipedia has a few words it ''really'' likes?) is a reference to a large number of Wikipedia pages that start by labeling their subject matter as a malapropism, a portmanteau, or a neologism.

In response to this comic, editors at Wikipedia created a {{w|malamanteau}} page. It was deleted multiple times and eventually turned into a redirect to the Wikipedia page for {{w|xkcd}}. Malamanteau and the controversy at Wikipedia got coverage at ''The Economist'' and ''The Boston Globe''.

The title text refers to Wikipedia's requirements of citations for a page on there to exist. It also refers to the wide range of places citations can be obtained from, showing a direct opposition due to the use of very different citations (The Language Log arguments are modern and informal, whereas the obscure manuscript is formal and much older). The title text also refers to the fact that [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/ Language Log] is frequently used for Wikipedia citations.

Language Log is a blog that posts content relating to language and linguistics, including things like malapropisms and portmanteaus. While an informal source, it has produced new linguistic terms before, such as {{w|eggcorn}}. Its comments sections frequently contain discussions and arguments about English, whose participants are probably the same people who write Wikipedia articles about linguistic phenomena like malamanteaus. In actual fact, [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2758 Malamanteau] did not appear on Language Log until after this strip. Malamanteau has since been referenced on the Language Log website, with a link to the comic in question. Language Log has referenced xkcd many times before, reposting the comics and linking to the xkcd website.

The title text jokingly refers to the "malamanteau" citations being Language Log references and a document from the 1490s, in reference to the fact that linguists, like those who post on Language Log, often use old documents as evidence, possibly to prove that construction is a longstanding feature of the language. The joke is that the only references to this word or concept are a 500-year-old document and linguists informally arguing about what it means. In reality, if these citations were the only evidence of the term's use, then it would be unlikely to be a notable feature worthy of a Wikipedia article. Most articles that are only cited by a single website tend to get deleted unless the subject has achieved significant coverage in outside news media.

==Transcript==
:[The strip is set up as the top of a Wikipedia page.]
:[The Wikipedia logo.]
:Wikipedia
:The free encyclopedia
:[Side navigation options.]
:Navigation
:-Main Page
:-Contents
:-Featured Content
:-Current Events
:[Wikipedia header options.]
:Article Discussion Edit this page History
:[The article itself.]
:Malamanteau
:From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
:A malamanteau is a neologism for a portmanteau created by incorrectly combining a malapropism with a neologism. It is itself a portmanteau of [...the article cuts off.]
:[Below the panel.]
:Ever notice how Wikipedia has a few words it ''really'' likes?

==External links==
*[http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Malamanteau Malamanteau] at the xkcd wiki
*[http://malamanteaus.blogspot.com/ Malamanteaus], a blog dedicated to the creation and proliferation of malamanteaux
*[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Malamanteau Malamanteau] at urbandictionary.com
*[http://wordsquirt.com/Word/View/Malamanteau/dbb34d48-e565-4012-bcc8-56718f351712 Malamanteau] at wordsquirt.com
*[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=malamanteau Entries referencing "malamanteau"] at LanguageLog.com
*Malamanteau Talk Page Archives {{w|Talk:Malamanteau/Archive 1|1}} and {{w|Talk:Malamanteau/Archive 2|2}} at Wikipedia.com
*{{w|Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malamanteau}}
*{{w|File:Malamanteau page history.jpg|Screen capture}} of the deleted history for the "Malamanteau" page from Wikipedia
*[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Malamanteau Wikipedia Log for "Malamanteau"]
*Beutler, William (May 5, 2010) "[http://thewikipedian.net/2010/05/18/much-ado-about-malamanteau/ Much Ado About Malamanteau]". ''The Wikipedian''
*McKean, Erin (May 30, 2010) "[http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/05/30/one_day_wonder/ One Day Wonder]". ''The Boston Globe''
*R.L.G (Nov 4th 2010) "[http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/11/neologisms Eggcorn, mashup, malamanteau or other?]". ''The Economonist''
*July 17, 2007 "[http://ask.metafilter.com/67192/How-to-define-this-language-mistake How to define this language mistake?]" - MetaFilter thread with the first usage

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explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals

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Place for ideas and suggestions to improve the wiki's design and organization on general issues can be incubated for later submission for consensus discussion. Be sure to check whether your proposal has already been submitted. {{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Proposals|Text=(+post)}}
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= Discussion Area =
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== Add unexplained strips ==

At the moment, browsing through the explanations using the previous and next buttons is interrupted whenever there's an explanation missing.

I think adding a page with the strip fr all of those with a short message like "no one has explained this yet, want to give it a shot?" would make the wiki easier to browse through and will get more strips explained faster.

:I don't think that would happen. If suddenly it was much easier for people to skip over pages that had no explanation, I think they would do exactly that, skip right over it. On the same side of that coin, If suddenly there are no longer any red links on the [[List of all comics]] then everyone perusing that page assumes that all the comics have been explained and don't need to contribute any more. It's astonishing how quickly an [[589: Designated Drivers|embedded]] red link gets an explanation page created simply to get rid of the red link.

:Secondarily, ''many'' of the pages created recently aren't being created with their numerical and titular redirects. Without the numerical redirect, the comic template can't find that there is a previous/next comic to link to. Every once in a while somebody will go through and try to notice all the pages that don't have their redirects created but it's an unscientific process that only happens occasionally. If we could get every joe blow that comes in and vomits up a poorly done explanation to create the redirects I wouldn't be quite as annoyed at their lack of show-don't-tell-manship. But, since they can't be bothered to put the date in the comic template, I doubt we'll ever get people to create the redirects.

:'''TL;DR:''' No more red links, no more work gets done on the back catalog.

:--[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 14:28, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

== xplainkcd.com ==

When I first saw this site I thought it should definitely be at xplainkcd.com or at least redirect from that url {{unsigned|115.166.22.158|12:45, 3 January 2013 (UTC)}}

: I like that idea! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 13:28, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

:Yeah! If it's possible, it would be cool! At least as a redirect. -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 15:46, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

:Not technically the same thing, but I just took [http://expxkcd.com http://expxkcd.com]. More explanation <del>is</del> was given on the website itself. {{User:Grep/signature|05:10, 29 March 2014}}
::We do that with explainxkcd.com as well, but yay shorter URLs! Mind if I use that for our social media links? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 06:45, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
:::I had no idea that you did that, but sure, go ahead! If you want, I can change any DNS records if you wish to have it go directly to you guys. {{User:Grep/signature|07:16, 29 March 2014}}
:::In case you were wondering, I just did the following: <code>^/([0-9]+)(/large)?/?$</code> {{User:Grep/signature|07:25, 29 March 2014}}
::::Hrm. We're just matching with <code>^(\d+)/?$</code>. You can keep ownership of the URL if you want, unless you have traffic concerns or whatever and you want us to handle it, which we're very capable of doing. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 08:47, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

I have made http://www.xkcd.ga and http://www.xkcd.tk both forward to http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. Is this ok? [[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 08:49, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

== Section style and usage ==

I am new here and I'm trying to get up to speed with the culture. I have a few questions about how and where to use sections (== this ==). I am more willing to go with (and enforce) whatever norms there are here, but I have not seen them actually discussed.

# '''Is it OK to create sections in Discussion pages?''' I have been told no, but there are many examples extant of this usage in this Wiki and indeed in Wikipedia.
# '''Section title case''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#Acronyms Wikipedia's style guide] recommends sentence case, not title case. There are many title cased section headers here.
# '''Links''' I do not have a reference for this but it seems to me putting links in section code (== [[<nowiki>this</nowiki>]] == ) is bad form.

Last note -- it's understood if these bylaws have not yet been written. I can see that a few of you have made a huge personal investment to make this Wiki what it is today, and that is a credit to you all -- this is awesome! As a long-time aficionado of xkcd I applaud your work and look forward to further collaboration.
--[[User:Smartin|Smartin]] ([[User talk:Smartin|talk]]) 04:15, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

:As a general rule, we stick to the standard format that existing pages follow, with an optional trivia section below the transcript. Some zealous editors like to add other sections though, which tend to be for the most part unneeded or redundant. If something you want to add doesn't help to explain the comic in some way, but the inclusion of which would somehow still add to the page, *and* it doesn't fall under the trivia category, a new section is warranted. This isn't the case most of the time though, so editors usually fold the content of extraneous sections into "Explanation" or "Trivia." We have no policy on links in titles, and they're allowed so long as they are appropriate; the link is useful and can't be folded into the section itself. And we use title case for titles cuz it just makes sense. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:08, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

:We generally do not (or at least, discourage) use sections on the talk/discussion pages for explanation pages. This is purely for looks. The comic discussion section of the explanation page looks/feels wrong if there are level 2 section breaks in the transclusion. Also, if the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Table_of_contents Table of Contents] starts showing up on a page, such as on [[Click and Drag]] the sections created on the talk page also show up in the TOC. This gets confusing, and this is why we prefer not to use them on explanation talk pages. Everywhere else we follow standard wiki format and do use sections on the discussion pages.

:Personally, I think that links in section titles looks wrong, but I choose not to be the dictator of style in this matter. :p

:Please feel free to make edits. The worst that happens is someone reverts your edit. If it's a big enough issue and/or you don't seem to be learning from what people are fixing about your edits someone will leave a comment on your talk page. That's it. We might leave a nasty-gram in the edit summary, but oh well. We only ban for malicious intent. Honestly working to better the wiki is good, even if sometimes we grumble about it.

:--[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 07:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

::Oh, I just looked at your talk page. I completely forgot that that happened. Don't worry about it. Learning the ropes is part of the experience. Do make edits, and if they're wrong, we'll nudge you in the right direction. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 07:18, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

I have been moving some trivia sections to directly below the explanation, in order to make it more consistent, and easier to survey and maintain. Often the dividing line between trivia and explanation is not entirely clear, and in articles without a trivia section the end of the explanation very often contains trivia-like information. (e.g. [[1155: Kolmogorov Directions]]) -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 10:13, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
===Title case doesn't make any sense===
At first sight title case in titles just makes sense. However title case '''never''' makes sense. It's worse than all caps. Besides, only Americans and children like title case. [[Special:Contributions/190.96.48.48|190.96.48.48]] 20:04, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

==New character==
As per [[Talk:1178: Pickup Artists]], the character with hair has appeared in quite a few comics now, and he's starting to become a recurring character. Shall we go ahead with inaugurating him into our list of regular characters, and what name shall we assign him? Current candidate names include Hairy and Harry. Anyone? '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:07, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

: I like Harry :) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 01:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
::Cos made a point in the discussion on [[Talk:1178: Pickup Artists]] that Hairy is directly descriptive, whereas Harry is not obvious to visitors. On the other hand, not all names are descriptive ([[Danish]]) and I think this wiki is entitled to create some xkcd-in-culture, and not just describe. And Harry is quite funny.
::I wonder: has [[Randall]] ever called him anything at all in the transcript? –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 21:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
:::Well, he's not named in a any official transcripts, but he's already called Harry in quite a few comic explanations. Then again, I do like having a more descriptive name for him. Shall we hold this up to a vote? '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 23:29, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
::::I think we should wait a little for a few more viewpoints to crop up. Also, can someone link to some more comics he's been featured in? I've got [[1028: Communication]], [[1027: Pickup Artist]] and [[1178: Pickup Artists]]. –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 23:41, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
:::::I actually like what that anon said: ''Curly''. Second choice: Hairy (being descriptive, a la Black Hat, Beret, Cueball, etc.) While there's talk about in-culture, we've done that with the names Cueball, Beret, etc. It's my opinion that the only names that should be "real" proper names are those that are named in the comic. Megan, Miss Lenhart, etc. Danish (as is discussed below) isn't truly a proper name, but you could argue it's a meta-description (one attributed by Black hat.) So that's my vote: yes for '''Curly''' or '''Hairy''', no for Harry. [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 05:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
:::That's right, [[Danish]] is not descriptive, but 1/ that name was suggested because the character [[515: No One Must Know|was called that way in the comic]], which is a tiny bit like a name given by the author (at least more than Harry which we have completely made up), and 2/ in that case it's hard to find a descriptive term: use something that revolves around her black hair (her only descriptive feature), and you easily mix up with [[Megan]]; the only graphical difference is that her hair is ''long'', but what kind of name can you make out of that?
:::For this new character, I suggest Hairy because it comes as the easy solution with every advantage: descriptive, easy to understand, and it's not ugly... I actually see no reason to resort to a made-up name like Harry.
:::[[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 22:29, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

: '''Alright. So the discussion's been had, and the most oft recommended name appears to be Hairy. All in favor, say aye. If more than 1/3 of editors agree and we have more than 6 votes, Hairy it is.''' '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:58, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
:# '''Aye''' '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:58, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
:# '''Aye''' [[User:Guru-45|Guru-45]] ([[User talk:Guru-45|talk]]) 06:14, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
:# '''Aye''' to Hairy. [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 15:43, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
:# '''Aye'''. Harry would be a nice nod to the fact that he's actually hairy, but indeed it's better to avoid inside jokes. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:05, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
:# '''Aye'''. I'm convinced! –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 17:52, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
:# '''Aye'''. Hairy. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 20:52, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
::Hooray! We now have a [[:Category:Comics featuring Hairy]], with four pages already! Does anyone feel compelled to create "[[Hairy]]", with a brief description and a nice profile pic like the other characters? –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 22:58, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

== Ambiguous characters ==

I've been thinking about the problem of the ambiguity of characters. "Is this really Cueball even though he has an eye and half a nose?", "This is very likely ''not'' x." "Darnit, these arn't Cueballs, these are Randall and his friends!", and so on. The character ambiguity is standard for xkcd (not less so in the early ones), and comes from the very loose or "free" way Randall uses his characters to be whatever he needs at the moment. It's simply often impossible for us to know whether he had e.g. "Cueball" or himself in mind, when drawing a particular comic (and I'd say: probably often both).

I want to suggest that we in general have a likewise rather loose policy towards including characters in the categories for the comics. So that reasonably ambiguous cases should be included in e.g. (does she have a ponytail?) This is not because I believe this or that to really be this or that; I just don't believe in objective truth (here!). I feel that when doing research :) on a character, the borderline cases are often the most interesting ones, and you want to be able to find them through the "Comics featuring miss x"!

I came to think this through now, when I wanted to (and did) list two comics with [[Miss Lenhart]] (?) where she was drawn but not named. Any thoughts on this in general? Other case studies? –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 21:17, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
:My take has always been that [[Cueball]], for example, has not been a specific character. There is not ''a'' cueball, per se, distinct from any other cueball... indeed, there are several comics with several cueballs in-frame, and that is the point. I see the cueball character as a wildcard character (pun intended) ready to stand in for anybody (and ''not'' necessarily just Randall; I think those readers who suggest "this ''is'' Randall" are missing the point; he's way more META than that...) [[Megan]], while slightly less generic, still remains the female wild-card significant-other, while Curls seems to be a not-significant-other female used to illustrate a relationship that is transient. Other characters come and go, and when it's important to visually distinguish them from others in the frame, they're given additional characteristics, to wit [[Hairy]], [[Ponytail]], etc.
:Unfortunately, that viewpoint is not commonly held, so I daresay I'm in the minority here.
:-- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 14:18, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

== Note at the top, about the server error ==

:''This thread was moved to [[MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice]]''

== I've removed "add a comment!" from Discussion heading ==

This does move it to above the line, and the rule stops early. Undo my change if that's more bothering than when the TOC is displayed as "add a comment!Discussion"...

I don't know how to automatically treat level 2 headers as level 3. That may be why Discussion was a level 1 heading earlier.
[[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 11:16, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
:Actually I now noticed there was a short edit war at {{tl|comic discussion}} over whether it should be a level 1 heading, just for this reason. [[User:Waldir]] seems to have conceeded... [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 11:25, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

:: No edit war, hence no (intentional) concession. I reverted a change once, and didn't notice the change being re-implemented by another user. In any case, it is irrelevant now since we actively discourage using headers in talk pages precisely so that they don't display in the TOC for the main comic page, where the discussion page is transcluded to (see the discussion [[#Section style and usage|above]]). This might not scale well for comics that generate lots of discussion. It might be worth discussing our customs (and perhaps write them down somewhere) before performing such changes. What do others think? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 11:49, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

== Time: The Table ==

Right now on the page [[1190: Time]], we have a whole bunch of tables in the form image-time-hash. The tables take up heaps of vertical space and all have to be collapsed to even be remotely traversible. I propose that we aggregate all the images into one table after Time ends, like so:

{| class="wikitable plainlinks table-padding"
|-
!Image
!Time
!Image
!Time
!Image
!Time
!Image
!Time
|-
|[[Media:time.png|00:00]]||01/00:00||[[Media:time.png|10:00]]||01/10:00||[[Media:time.png|20:00]]||01/20:00||[[Media:time.png|30:00]]||AND MOAR SAMPLE DATAS
|-
|[[Media:time.png|00:30]]||01/00:30||[[Media:time.png|10:30]]||01/10:30||[[Media:time.png|20:30]]||01/20:30||[[Media:time.png|30:30]]||AND MOAR SAMPLE DATAS
|}

The hash values aren't really a part of the comic, they're gibberish for the most part and they take up space that could be used to compact the table, as shown above. Even if we are conservative and make the table only five columns wide to account for smaller screens, we've divided scrolling time by five and eliminated much of the need for annoying collapsed tables and section headers for each day. Constructing the table shouldn't be particularly hard either, as all our current data is in nice regular tables with clear patterns that are easy enough to parse through.

I'm putting this here because the organization of the frame entries would be unintuitive and difficult to change from the edit window, which would make it a poor choice when we're still expanding it and don't even know how long the comic will continue for. It's merely a space-saving trick for after we're sure that the comic is over. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:26, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

:Oh and it'd be really nice if other people could also upload images if you're awake and a new one rolls by. There's gaps in the image record every time I wake up, and I dun likey. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:34, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
:Good work so far; go ahead make it better! :) –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 08:34, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

==Featured Explanation, and Archival?==

* Wikipedia has featured content. Now that we are close to reaching the goal of all comics explained, I think it makes more sense to have a "featured explanation" which would serve as a sort of a marker for a complete and good explanation. Many comics, and almost all charts are not fully explained/not a good quality explanation.

* We should set up archival of discussion of the most discussed pages, like this one. Its not very pleasing to see comments from July 2012 still lying around here. It becomes hectic at some point.

Just my 2 cents, feel free to discuss. Cheers,
[[Special:Contributions/117.194.88.180|117.194.88.180]] 13:36, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

:We dedicate this wiki to explaining xkcd, and we do actually have a featured comic feature; it changes every week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and we usually manage to fill out the explanation for it within an hour or so of it going up. The most recent comic tends to be the one that most people visiting the wiki care about, so we give it prime space on the front page so they can find it easily. xkcd updates frequently enough that there isn't really that big of a time window for us to feature an article on our front page. Also, we're a volunteer project with quite a bit less manpower than Wikipedia.
:We do need to archive talk pages though. Some of these are getting ridiculously long. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:04, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
::I agree with Davidy22. Archiving topics can be done by anyone, by moving resolved threads to the portal section's corresponding [[explain xkcd talk:Community portal/Proposals|talk page]]. We could start with the threads marked "✓ Closed". [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:42, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

:: The reason I asked for a "featured explanation" was because many of the comic explanations we currently have are sub-par, and we're almost at our initial goal of explaining all comics. A "featured explanation" would drive our editors towards the goal of having complete and good explanation towards all comics, and would allow us to know which explanations need elaboration.
:: P.S. My definition of complete explanation would be - To have a good explanation, To have all categories relevant, To link to any comics related and To explain any technical portions of the comic.
:: [[Special:Contributions/117.194.82.49|117.194.82.49]] 07:45, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
:::That message on the front page is going to link to all the pages marked by the incomplete template. If you find an unsatisfactory explanation, please mark it with <nowiki>{{incomplete}}</nowiki> '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:54, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
:::: By my definition, I think all comics will be incomplete. An incomplete template will be focused more towards improving the worst explanations, while a featured one will be to improve the best ones. Since we already have the former, we should focus on the latter. Just my 2 cents. [[Special:Contributions/117.194.85.82|117.194.85.82]] 06:55, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

== Split the list of all comics ==

[[List of all comics]] is getting larger and larger, which makes it hard to read and hard to edit. How about splitting into parts, say [[List of all comics/1-1000]], [[List of all comics/1001-2000]], etc., or something to that effect? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:39, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

: Done. [[Special:Contributions/117.194.88.176|117.194.88.176]] 10:03, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
::Great job, thanks! [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 11:09, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
:::And I've added back [[List of all comics (full)]], which allows, for example, listing all comics by alphabetical order.[[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 17:29, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

== Sidebar ads ==

''Moved from [[Talk:Main Page]] –– [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 08:06, 4 May 2013 (UTC)''

Are they generating significant money? The ones I see are pretty sleazy looking and/or scammy - "Power Companies Hate this Device! - click here to break the laws of thermodynamics!" and "Debt relief program click here to lose more money". How much money are they generating? Can you set any selections to remove the sleazy ads? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 18:30, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
:Do we have sleazy sidebar ads? Since when? Thanks Google Chrome and AdBlock, I had no idea! –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 07:47, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
::People give 20$ a pop to get a bunch of clicks on explainxkcd, and Jeff uses that money to buy a faster server with a hard drive that doesn't have less space than a public toilet with an elephant in it. It'd be really nice if you didn't turn on adblock, the money is appreciated. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 08:47, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
:::It's a question of me not turning it off specifically every time I visit this site. More importantly, I do think people would be more likely to click the "donate" if it weren't irrelevant ads around it. –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 19:29, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
:::Generating money is a great thing. Getting "20$ a pop to get a bunch of clicks" is a bit unclear. Do the ads only generate revenue when clicked on? So EXKCD only gets money when someone actually falls for the sleazy ads? I know lots of people do not like Google - but at least their adsense stuff is relevant to the content of the website, which might generate some legitimate traffic for a legitimate advertiser.... [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 11:48, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
::::Welllll, I didn't pick the ad supplier. You could bring it up with [[User talk:Jeff|Jeff]] if you want, I think he picked the ad provider on basis of which one had a mediawiki plugin or something. If you can link Jeff to a quick and easy way to put adsense on mediawiki, he should change it quickly enough. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:21, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
:::::And I also gather then that they are only a temporary thing? -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 08:27, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
::::::Until we can buy a server that doesn't poop itself every time a new comic is released, the ads are staying. If you want them to go away sooner, throw more money at Jeff. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:25, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
::::::: The ads are crap. For sure. Wish I didn't have to run them, but I don't trust donations alone to hold up continually some better hosting. The ads really don't bring in that much $$$. I had google adsense before, but Google shutdown my adsense account for unnamed reason after 1 week. This new ad service is way sketchier. If you all think they don't have a place here, I'll ax 'em. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:02, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
::::::: Thanks for the info Jeff. How much ad money are we talking about? Is it calculated on how many ads are displayed or how many are clicked-through? How close to the goal is the server fund? How about a Kickstarter campaign for the server? $10 gets your name on a thankyou webpage or something like that. [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 17:32, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
:::::::: It ain't much, last I looked it was $2 or $3 in 2 weeks. I believe it is based on clicks, it is not nearly as clear as Google adsense. I'm not really interested in doing a Kickstarter. I think the donations will cover the initial start up, I just want to be able to cover the monthly costs as well. A few things are still up in the air. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:24, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
:::::::::Can you find a way to show the donations and ad income on the site, to make it transparent? ––[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 15:30, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
::::::::: How about a donation amount that you'll take to turn it (the annoying unethical scummy ads) off for a year? Give me a dollar value and I might step up for the good of us all! [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 16:28, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Since Project wonderful shut down, I block ads even on explainxkcd. The adds are simple and not colourful, which I like, but being part of Google Adsense I block them for keeping my my privacy. I am sad to do this but until there is another, better way to serve them, I have to.

== Economic transparency ==

I think this is very important: How can we make the donations and ad-income transparent, so that we all can see when and how much money is coming in, and how far we are from reaching our goal? – [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 00:35, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
: Sounds fine to me, I think I can put something together. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 15:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
::Hi, may I bump this issue? Or maybe you have done something, and I missed it? Anyway, I would still appreciate it! –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 17:43, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
:::Numberssss. I'll get on with it, just need less homework and a few more numbers. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:54, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

I would like to respectfully file a complain. I find the banner advertisement of background checks distasteful. [[User:Benjaminikuta|Benjaminikuta]] ([[User talk:Benjaminikuta|talk]]) 05:10, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
: Hey [[User:Benjaminikuta|Benjaminikuta]] - I am the one who approved those ads. But, since you have filed a complaint about them, I have gone ahead and removed them. Thanks. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 12:52, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

I thank you. [[User:Benjaminikuta|Benjaminikuta]] ([[User talk:Benjaminikuta|talk]]) 03:36, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

== Using <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki></nowiki> in transcripts to improve accuracy ==

In the transcripts, <nowiki>[[lines]]</nowiki> are being changed to [lines] in order to avoid auto-linking. Why not just surround these with <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki></nowiki> tags and avoid the problem entirely? --[[User:Epauley|Epauley]] ([[User talk:Epauley|talk]]) 04:18, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
:Because it takes less time to type and single brackets are just as readable as double brackets to visitors. It's also a bit more readable in the editor. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:55, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

== Strip Title ==

For someone who commonly browses explainxkcd in place of xkcd, and hence often see the strips for the first time here rather than the parent site, I find it somewhat odd that the 'Title Text' is so poorly displayed given how critical it can be to the strip.

I propose that, while retaining the given name (perhaps moving it top left), the title text be enlarged and relocated to being over the strip as originally intended. {{unsigned ip|175.41.133.18}}
:The title text is placed very well at bottom of the image.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 07:20, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

:I would have to agree with Dgbrt, it's placed nicely at the bottom, and there is no need for it to be moved. My reasoning is that you never actually read the title text first, you read it last. Making it <code>text-align: left;</code> does not make sense, because the image is centered (just like on xkcd.com). I also believe that there is no need for it to be re-sized, mainly due to the fact that it is slightly larger than the title text (for me, at least). {{User:Grep/signature|05:18, 08 September 2013}}

:Plus, if you hover over the image, it's the same as on xkcd.com {{User:Grep/signature|06:13, 08 September 2013}}

:I also agree with Dgbrt and Grep. The title text is kind of a bonus and should not be emphasized more than on the original page. On the original site you only see it before the image, if you have very slow internet access (or very fast eyes) --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 08:06, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== Sections in talk pages ==

Is there a reason why there are no sections in talk pages? It is not a very big deal, but especially for longer talk pages it would make editing be much handier, especially when using the preview function (not having to find the section every time). Also it automatically adds a description to the history (thus makes it more easy to look for certain edits, or decide by just looking at the [[Special:RecentChanges]], if a comment should concern you. --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 08:01, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
:When discussion pages are transcluded by the comic discussion template, section headers carry over from talk pages and bad things happen. Using ; to denote headers instead of equals signs works well, and doesn't share transclusion pain. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 08:04, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

== references ==

Any chance we can add [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php cite.php] to this wiki? Most pages don't need it, but some comics take on a life of their own and being able to add reference tags would be really helpful for those. [[User:LadyMondegreen|LadyMondegreen]] ([[User talk:LadyMondegreen|talk]]) 01:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
: Cite has been added to the wiki. Thanks for the suggestion! --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 01:35, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

== Stylized writing ==

I understand that this wiki isn't as formal as wikipedia or sites like that but it seems that there are a few questionable practices:

1. The use of questions - when a non-rhetorical or unnecessary question is entered into the explanation.

2. Extremely painted/biased view points - when there is obvious bias in the tone of the explanation of the contributor, in other
words; a lack of neutrality.

3. Extreme repetition/rehashing - the explanation restates things and makes for a long and tedious read when a more straight-forward explanation is possible and clearer.

4. The general informality - "This one's an easy one" "This is simple" "this one's straightforward" "You're an idiot for not understanding this one" etc.

5. Many other practices that make the explanation hard to read, difficult to understand, or plain ugly.

I know that there are disparaging view points on how a comic should be explained, but please let's clean up the site a bit, acknowledge each view point and report on all of them and then tighten up the sloppy writing. Carry out arguments in the talk section, not the explanation. Perhaps we could first try to say the majority view point on the interpretation and then write the alternate explanations, of course this would bring up the debate on which is the majority explanation. Either way, more complete, logical explanations should be given more credence. --[[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]]) 00:25, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

:I agree with 2-5. 1, on the other hand, is sometimes useful and can contribute the to explanation, although 1 is still a very good point. I would say that you should edit it to have "arguments in the talk" be a 6th point as well. Unfortunately, though, we are not all logical, comic-understanding machines here, so minor deviations of these rules are still to be expected. But I think that overall, these are good rules, even if 2/3 are sort of part of 5.
:[[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]], please sign your post with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>{{User:Grep/signature|23:55, 22 October 2013}}

:I understand the use of questions in certain parts. And it was probably better to put the others as sub-categories to five but I wanted to show some common things that can be easily fixed. I know that some explanations require a lot of text and extensive research because of the abstract subjects Randall deals with and that it's difficult to be completely standardized but I think it would be good for us to try to come up with some general things to try to avoid to help the explanations "flow" --[[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]]) 00:25, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
::Most of that isn't intentional, it's just an awful lot of labor to copy check all the explanations. I've been going through all the current articles and fixing consistency issues, the worst being wrong transcript/title text/dates and the most benign being wikilinks, spelling and trailing spaces. I'm at 682 so far, but my next pass will be on actual language and content, and it'll probably take longer. It takes a while though, and you can totally work on improving language in articles if you want to. Some explanations were pulled from the old blog, some were written and just got lost in the changelog. Copy editing everything we have so far is a very labor-intensive job, and the only way to really deal with it is to knuckle down and do it, or form a wikiproject and hope to heaven that visitors feel charitable enough to join in on it. I'd *probably* push to finish up all our incomplete articles first though, just because that's more directly related to the purpose of the site; tone and style probably comes second to having correct explanations. That doesn't mean you can't do it yourself, it's just that I'll probably only dedicate the subheader on the main page to one project at a time and our current biggest bugbear hasn't been solved yet. I could put up a sitenotice to see if that speeds the process up any. I'll do that when I get back home. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 03:31, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

== Easy redirect to comic? ==

I've been thinking, and there is one thing that would make navigating to the explained comics easier. My method of browsing is I'll see the comic on xkcd.com first, and if there is something curious about it that I don't quite understand, I'll come here. Sometimes it can be a bit troublesome, going to the homepage and then navigatiing to the right comic. Not too bad, but I'd like an easy way to go direct. So I was thinking, what if you had a redirect such that if you typed in, for example, www.explainxkcd.com/505, you would get redirected to http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=505:_A_Bunch_of_Rocks. That would mean that you could get to the comic just from adding an "explain" to the start of the xkcd.com URL. I don't know if that is at all possible, but it would be pretty handy if it happened. Thoughts?
[[User:Alcatraz ii|Alcatraz ii]] ([[User talk:Alcatraz ii|talk]]) 03:01, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
:[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Technical#Redirect_from_explainxkcd.com.2F1234 That's actually already on the to-do list.] I'm testing it right now and we should have it up soon. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:02, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
:: Awesome :) [[User:Alcatraz ii|Alcatraz ii]] ([[User talk:Alcatraz ii|talk]]) 03:26, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
:::Whoop, forgot to mark this as complete. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:37, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
:::: Done! Copy this and drag it to your bookmarks bar: |javascript: var url = document.URL; document.location = url.replace('xkcd.com','explainxkcd.com');| {{unsigned ip|173.245.52.29}}
:::::The feature requested here has also long since been implemented. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 22:20, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

== Increase support via prominent display of copyright and license for text submitted to explainxkcd ==

XKCD itself is rather liberally licensed, and gets lots of good will from that. As it says on the bottom of every page "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License." For details see [http://xkcd.com/license.html xkcd - A Webcomic - License].

But I found nothing on most pages of explainxkcd about copyright or licensing, and it discouraged me from contributing or donating. Finally, as I was writing this proposal up, I found a link on the editing page here: [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Copyrights explain xkcd:Copyrights - explain xkcd] saying that "''The Explain XKCD wiki is generally licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC-BY-SA-3.0)''". That notice should be more prominent on the site, with at least a link on each page. [[User:Nealmcb|Nealmcb]] ([[User talk:Nealmcb|talk]]) 15:27, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
:This should be mentioned at the main page, including a reference to the xkcd origin.
:BTW: NO DOUBLE SPACES after a sentence. Are you US guys still using a typewriter? It's not rendered at a web page and stupid like Gallons, Miles, Foots, and much more unique US behaviours. But that's just a joke beside.
:The licence hint is much more important, you are just correct.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:12, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
::Added a creative commons icon to the footer of the page, next to the powered by mediawiki button. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 22:16, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

== New Comics Bot ==

Would there be need for such a thing?
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.52|108.162.231.52]] Synthetica
:Nice idea, I never thought about that before. I will do some tests on existing comics to check if this could reduce the current number of error posts for a new article. When that is ready and working I will talk to some admins. My bot account [[User:DgbrtBOT|DgbrtBOT]] was originally intended for [[1190: Time]] picture uploads, but I never have used it because Time was over. Creating the new pages should be easy in general, avoiding errors will cost some more work. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:31, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
::If you can get dgbrtBOT to do that, that'd help us an awful lot. It'd allow us to get rid of the ifexist cases in template:LATESTCOMIC as well, since the bot could change automatically that whenever a new comic goes up. It'll also help us get new comics down almost the moment they pop up, since the bot could sample several times a minute until a comic is posted. So long as it gets the general pattern right so that we have a correct page set up, we're good. An admin can come in sometime later to clean up categories and image urls and other piddly easy-to-fix details. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 20:54, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
:::I will work on this next weekend, just local scripts and no updates here. I also will talk about my results before any automatic updates will be activated. My first focus is on creating the new pages in the general pattern, LATESTCOMIC and also the page "All comics" are maybe a bonus later. And of course all my scripts will be open source.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:44, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
::::The first version is ready and I will test it at my local wiki. If everything goes well I could activate it for Wednesday (2013-11-13). LATESTCOMIC and "All comics" are on my roadmap, but first I want produce correct new pages here. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:00, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
:::::Righty ho. Here goes. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 20:36, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Even when my automatic local wiki test did fail today, just a damn wrong password, I will activate the bot here for Wednesday. It will only run from 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM UTC. You will not see my possible updates at [[Special:RecentChanges]] unless you click ''Show bots'' at the top of that page. LATESTCOMIC and "All comics" are not covered, but this is at my TODO list until this test will be successful. Give me a '''GO''' or '''NO-GO''' for this test.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:49, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
:Easily a GO, I'll be ready to clean up if anything goes wrong. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 22:08, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
::So be ready on Wednesday for the clean up. My worst case is ''it simply does not work'', second worse scenario is still that I could delete some contend already posted here, but I'm trying to avoid this. ''Huston'', the countdown clock is counting. I'm joking about this because I really want to be confident about this ''BOT'' or ROBOT or uncontrolled action here.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 00:28, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
:::The bot can't do anything that I can't reverse. I can even restore a backup from an hour before the bot's edits if it manages to break the database. How quickly does it poll xkcd, by the way? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:53, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

First live test here (comic 1289). Please delete this page: [[Simple_Answers:_1289]]. Since my local wiki did not provide this templates I could not see this error before. In general the bot will update pages differ to any existing pages, but when it is not changed no update will happen. I'm fixing this errors at my script and do a second test here soon. I want to see it's producing correct pages until the bot will do it's work when I'm sleeping.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:31, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
:Ok, test are done here, BOT is scheduled for the next update. Polling is every five minutes on Mon, Wed, and Fri from 04:00 until 08:00 UTC. Let's see how it will work.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:08, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
::Couldja ramp that up to once/twice a minute, push the start time back by an hour, and the end time by a few hours? Also, is it possible to terminate it once it finds a comic for a certain day? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:45, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
:::It worked! Though it posted the comic 5 minutes past post time. We has technology now, we can afford to poll faster and closer, yeah? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:32, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Uhh, it worked... I will increase the polls when I'm more confident about the release times. Today it was approx. 05:00 UTC (GMT) or 01:00 EST (Randall's time zone). Looks like he is still at daylight saving time, would have been 00:00 EDT. The polls will be increased to one minute when I'm sure about the Standard Release Time (SRT). Next steps for the next update on Friday are:
:The "All comics" page.
:The LATESTCOMIC template.
--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:54, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
:The LATESTCOMIC template is included for the next run, it just simply has to return a number. But it's still the most critical part because if it does not work the Main Page is broken. I will change this to a better solution using that IFEXIST syntax soon. The list of all comics is still at my ToDo list. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:06, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
::The desired content of the LATESTCOMIC template should be just the comic number. If we can get out of having to poll multiple IFEXIST statements to find the latest comic, that would be a fantastic boon to our server performance. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:43, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
:::OK, it did work today so I will not change this. Next step is the list for all comics.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 11:10, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Next run will include an update on the "All comics" page. I'm crossing my fingers. When this update is also successful I will document my Bot at the Bot user page [[User:DgbrtBOT]]. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
:Oh, I forgot this detail: The bot is starting at 00:00 EST (RLT - Randall local time), which is 04:00 UTC and 05:00 MET for me. It polls every 5 minutes until 23:55 MET (22:55 UTC, 18:55 RLT) the main page until a new comic is found. I do not poll the comic number because I want to avoid 404 message logs at the servers.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:30, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
:Something went wrong there. That's gonna need fixing. I am enjoying the looks of the apparently faster polling though. Maybe you could also set the start time to 00:00:05 EST to catch the on-time xkcd releases within ten seconds? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:33, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
::Uh, what a mess. I will do some more tests at my local wiki. At the next time I will do a check against the number from the LATESTCOMIC template, only the next number will be processed. The test against my local history did fail because of some cleanups after testings.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 08:18, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
:::I don't like mess. So the BOT got many more checks before posting here but the bot was starting at 05:00 local time for me. I'm really asleep at that time. The mess here was covered, but I do need another GO for the next attempt. Otherwise I will just do a test to my local wiki.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:35, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
No GO so far, my next test will run only at my local wiki.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:16, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
:My script is here: [https://github.com/dgbrt/explainXKCD_update explainXKCD_update]. At my current test "explainxkcd.com" is commented out and "localhost" is active. Since I don't like mess and the bot does act while I am sleeping the next update must be done manually here. I'm hoping the bot will be ready for the next update on Friday.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:15, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
::Bot is ready for Friday, everything went smooth at my last local test today. The bot did find the latest comic at 04:05 UTC and all essential pages were properly created. So I will activate it for this site again. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:57, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Bot did work as expected. So I name it release 1.1337, the next planed release will be 2.1337 (beta) because of this two issues:
*"Include any categories below this line." will be removed because it doesn't make any sense any more.
*BETA: I want to use the full template features at [[List of all comics]], just ensuring that the pictures are working properly. No need for this at the most comics, but the BOT doesn't cover all possibilities on corrupt file names like we have had in "Pi vs. Tau". The picture was without that dot. My bot just shows the real link it did upload here.
I'm pretty sure we will have some issues on this bot, but for general pages it should work. So the bot will be active on Mon,Wed,Fri from 0:00 EST (or EDT) every five minutes until it did found a new comic, on success the bot does not poll any more.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:51, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
:Aww, it's a bot. It doesn't need to rest or take time off to do other stuff. It can totally poll once or more times per minute. Also, if you set the start time to a few seconds after midnight, Randall time, when he uploads a comic on-time, you'll get it within a few seconds as opposed to having to wait for the next polling. As for the image names, maybe you could convert spaces in the comic name to underscores, compare the two comic names you have and use that to decide which version of the template to use? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 23:08, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
::I have to avoid that the bot is running twice, Internet Timeouts and more. And the comics are also published later sometimes. Look at my release [https://github.com/dgbrt/explainXKCD_update 1.1337], release 2.1337 will be later, Maybe I should start at 2 minutes after 0:00, but let's see right now how the bot does work. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 00:38, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Uhh, what a huge discussion here. The bot will get a major update soon: Scheduler does start it once and until a comic is found and uploaded it here or an other limit is reached (maybe the end of the day) the bot will poll by a small delay. But every poll is still an entire download from the main page, When a new comic is found bot stops.
:Why, you could use http://xkcd.com/info.0.json, right?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.52|108.162.231.52]] 07:38, 2 December 2013 (UTC)Synthetica
::The BOT performs perfect and I prefer to analyze the original page. A title text like the one from today (a text showing a link) will be covered in the future.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 10:35, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
A great enhancement would be also covering a new comic like 1190 Time was. I'm looking forward on this, some ideas, it does require a complete analyse of the page and then finding some strange content.
--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:05, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

== Require description for 'incomplete' tags ==
I've been trying to fix some of the incompletes, but several explanation pages I've come across are tagged incomplete without any reason given. The reason should be a required part of the tag. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.223|173.245.52.223]] 03:35, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
:This incomplete tags are just older than the recent change of that template. Current adds require a description, but it's not easy to figure out all that old reasons. If someone does find a reason, please just add it. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:22, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

== Should there be a subwiki to cover the shop links that appear above the comic? ==

The current one (as of writing) is [http://imgs.xkcd.com/store_news/store_gd_b11_1ze4.png] but this is a different than the usual, and there was also a third in between these.
[[User:Rsranger65|Rsranger65]] ([[User talk:Rsranger65|talk]]) 06:00, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
:Those are very ephemeral. They aren't going to exist for very long, I don't know how valuable it would be to archive that stuff. We could probably do it, but having to figure out another naming convention and all for advertisements doesn't appeal to me at the current moment. If you can flesh it out, I'd love to see how you think we should do it. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:24, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

== New Character ==

OK, I think we need a name for the character with a goatee and glasses in comics [[435: Purity]], [[796: Bad Ex]] and [[964: Dorm Poster]] as well as possibly others. Edit: oh and I suggest Goatee and Glasses Guy, but I'm open for suggestions Edit 2: also in [[826: Guest Week: Zach Weiner (SMBC)]] Halfhat {{unsigned|Halfhat}}
edit 3: Another sighting [[954: Chin-Up Bar]] [[User:Halfhat|Halfhat]] ([[User talk:Halfhat|talk]]) 16:57, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
: In the transcript, he is called "Person with Glasses and a Goatee" --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 15:39, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
:: "Glasses Guy", "Goatee Guy" are both probably descriptive enough! --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 15:41, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

== What If Comics ==

Hi, I was thinking, maybe at some point we should do the comics in the ''What If?'' section, like [http://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/36/cornstarch_bitcoins.png this one.] [[User:Halfhat|Halfhat]] ([[User talk:Halfhat|talk]]) 20:01, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
: Start creating the pages for them! --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 15:36, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
: I think I can start creating one or two pages for What If, if that helps... [[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel Carrero]] ([[User talk:Daniel Carrero|talk]]) 16:14, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
:: If nobody has any problem with it, I'm gonna give it a try later. :) [[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel Carrero]] ([[User talk:Daniel Carrero|talk]]) 13:14, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
:::I thought they were already pretty self-explanatory though. Also, how are we gonna organize and present them? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 16:31, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
::::I totally agree with David: Read the entire What-If page and follow the links provided by Randall. No one of us can do that better in depth. But an overview page for this site is maybe not a bad idea, we just need a proper link here — a link at the main menu on the left. Translations to other languages are just another issue. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:37, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
:::::Yes, I was thinking of an overview, summarizing the contents and discoveries of each what if page. Not to mention, we could also organize what if pages by categories, such as physics/love.
:::::Would you like me to post here an example of what I would write? That way we can decide if it's worthy of creating an actual page. [[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel Carrero]] ([[User talk:Daniel Carrero|talk]]) 12:53, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
:Adding pages for What If? posts would be very helpful. Although the articles themselves are obviously self-explanatory, there are almost as many subtle references, running gags, and in-jokes in What If? posts these days as in the comics themselves.
I often visit explain xkcd when I feel like I'm missing an inside joke or a pop culture reference in a comic, and it would be very helpful to many people (especially those from other cultures/subcultures) to have the same service.
For example, today's What If? contains multiple allusions to the Superman Movie, a running Citation Needed joke, and a whole comic that is a not-so-subtle dig at Elon Musk and the Hyperloop. It would be awesome if the community here at explainxkcd could tackle stuff like that.
Anonymous 20:05, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

I agree. I don't understand the mouseover text on the first image in "Snow Removal", for example. [[User:Benjaminikuta|Benjaminikuta]] ([[User talk:Benjaminikuta|talk]]) 22:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

== Transcripts ==

The whole point of the transcripts is to have those who are unable to view images to still be able to read the comic, right?

Then why is it required to stick to strictly official transcripts, where sometimes rewriting them slightly would make them flow better or otherwise get the ideas across better? I've tried rewriting a few, but they get reverted. I think that having easier-to-understand transcripts would be more important than strictly following official transcripts; what do you think? (For a few examples, see [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=207:_What_xkcd_Means&diff=60061&oldid=57400 this edit] and [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=995%3A_Coinstar&diff=59862&oldid=57316 this edit]. [[User:Zowayix|Zowayix]] ([[User talk:Zowayix|talk]]) 17:38, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
:We use the original transcript to try and deduce original author intent if it's unclear from the image. I remember one comic where Beret Guy was off in the distance and it was difficult to distinguish him from the image, but the official transcript said it was him. We don't stick to the original transcript if it's obviously wrong, or it has typographical errors: see [[Laser Scope]]. Those edits seem to be mainly targeted at language and clarity, and should be fine. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 23:06, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
::Would it be helpful to have another (optional) section for expanding on the official transcripts? I too think it could be helpful, especially for complex images (such as 1079/United Shapes [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1079]). Or does supplemental description belong in the Explanation sections? Cheers. [[User:Karenb|Karenb]] ([[User talk:Karenb|talk]]) 23:00, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
:::Naaah, how many people even know there's an original transcript? If the original is wrong, change it. If your additions begin to verge on explanatory, move eet to the trivia/explanation sections. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:52, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

== "Characters in this Comic" section ==

Should there be a "Characters in this Comic" section in each comic explanation? (I feel like this should be longer but don't have anything else to say.) [[User:Z|Z]] ([[User talk:Z|talk]]) 23:33, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

:There is a Category section at the bottom of each comic. Just scroll down and you will see any character belonging to a specific comic. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:50, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

== Adding the Radiation chart from XKCD ==

Hi
As there are already other comics with explanations even though they are not part of the number system.
This one does not seem to have any yet:
http://xkcd.com/radiation/
And as it is very alike the Money strip (the unexplained of the week) so I think it should be explained as well.
If you agree please add it as I'm not sure how to do that.

Best regards
:[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 18:47, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

== Reddit comments? ==

There should be a link in each comics explanation page somewhere linking to the comment section for the relevant comic on /r/xkcdcomic or reddit.
:The reddit comments page isn't ''that'' close to what we do though. If this is more popular, we'll do it, though there'll need to be a fair bit of post-hoc editing since I don't think there's a standard URL scheme for all the past comics. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 03:15, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
:I just came here to ask if we could do this, but I looked into it and it wouldn't be simple. Could we write a bot to run on the xkcd subreddit to post the link here? --[[User:Eluvatar|Eluvatar]] ([[User talk:Eluvatar|talk]]) 05:53, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

== Not insulting new users ==

I am writing a response to a vulnerability assessment. I have included a link to http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936 noting that it contains a good explanation of the relative security of passwords vs passphrases. I just noticed that the top of that page contains "Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb." Looks like I'll have to find a different site to link to. --[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] ([[User talk:Pascal|talk]]) 17:33, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
:I agree. While I'm sure it can seem cute or funny in various circles, that text has always seemed immature and inappropriate to me, and I'm sure to many folks we'd like to invite to the site. I suggest that it be changed. [[User:Nealmcb|Nealmcb]] ([[User talk:Nealmcb|talk]]) 19:52, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

:The XKCD http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936 suggestion for password is actually not that good. [http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/62832/is-the-oft-cited-xkcd-scheme-no-longer-good-advice read here] for some more discussion. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.253.6|162.158.253.6]] 23:49, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

:I also agree. I'm not here because I'm stupid, I'm here because I don't know something and I'm hoping this site can help. It's off putting to have that text there, and there's no benefit to it. What about just repeating the thing at the top of XKCD.com: "Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language: Explained"?

I agree, and there is actually a very long talk page started about this subject in the miscellaneous section. Eventually people voted to keep it, but the main argument on that side was that that was the way things had always been. I am fairly new to the site (this is actually my first post on it), so I don't know how these things work, but I do think that that should be changed. There were actually a large number of good proposals for replacements with the other one, and I thought it would be funny if there was a randomly selected character every time you loaded a page, with each character having their own tagline. Is there any way to try to get this changed again?[[Special:Contributions/172.68.78.52|172.68.78.52]]

== RSS feed ==

Is there an RSS feed (or some equivalent) of Explain XKCD available? It's helpful for those using feed readers, and superior to the primary XKCD RSS since there are explanations and the mouse over text is transcribed for the lazy. Thanks [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.154|108.162.219.154]] 08:24, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
:[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=atom&hideredirs=1&limit=90&offset=&namespace=0&username=&feed=&tagfilter= Why yes, we do!] It's the regular new pages log that all wikis have. It's a little ugly at the moment, and sometimes junk gets in there when a bot chucks spam at us, so a nicer feed is in the works, but the linked one should do you excellently for now. When the nice one is done, you'll see it in the sidebar below the "Help" button. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:31, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

== Navigation Pane Link - Categories ==

How about having a link to the "Special:Categories" page in the navigation pane?

A fair amount of effort has gone into categorising the comics, and at the moment it isn't particularly obvious how to browse by category. Is this worth doing?{{unsigned|Pudder}}
:Space on the sidebar is on a premium. I dunno, I'd probably be against it, but I want to hear what other admins say as well. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 16:45, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

== Alternate realities what if would benefit from a wiki entry ==

The what if entry from the end of November 2014 providing excerpts from alternate reality what ifs would benefit from an explain page.
I suspect these may have been typos that have been made into jokes, but some of the humor might not be apparent to all.
I doubt I have access (or maybe know how) to set it up myself.

Cheers {{unsigned ip|199.27.133.42}}

: Made it. Check out [[What If: 120: Alternate Universe What Ifs]]. [[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 09:10, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
::We don't actually have a structure for what if pages in general, so I'll have to take that down, but when we do we can make pages for every what if. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:57, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

== Secondary URLs? ==

I have made http://www.xkcd.ga and http://www.xkcd.tk both forward to http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. Is this ok? [[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 08:50, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
:While we probably won't advertise them because we can't guarantee the uptime of third-party URLs, and they add an additional redirect layer and lack our shortened URL features, you're free to purchase and link URLs to us independently. We are not owned by Randall and as such cannot claim to actually be xkcd, so I'm not hugely comfortable with you using the plain name "xkcd" to link to us; a url in the format http://www.xkcd.[TLD] should by rights link to the main xkcd site, but no trademark claim has been made or likely will be made, so you should be fine with doing whatever you want to do with URL redirects '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:57, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

== LaTeX (Or MathML, TeX) support? ==

[[1489:_Fundamental_Forces|In the most recent comic at the time of posting]], there was use of formulae, being: Fgravity = G m1m2/d2 Fstatic = Ke q1q2/d2 
There are probably many more comics using formulae that cannot be rendered properly without the use of LaTeX or something. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula help page on Wikipedia] says that the following should work: <math>F_{gravity}=G\frac{m_1m_2}{d^2}</math> <math>F_{static}=K_e\frac{q_1q_2}{d^2}</math>
Provided that one has to set <source lang="php" enclose="none">$wgUseTeX = true;</source> in [[mw:Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php]]. Is there any reason for this to be disabled? If there is, is there any alternative? —[[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.95|141.101.106.95]] 21:18, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

:The wgUseTeX flag was deprecated in mediawiki 1.18 in a move to simplify base mediawiki and move niche features into seperate plugins. I vaguely remember this being requested in the past, can't find any evidence of me implementing it. I'll try it now, see what stopped me last time. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
:Ah, there's a bit of configuration work to it and I was busy at the time probably. I'll put it on the growing to do list on my userpage. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:20, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
This problem is '''solved'''. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 12:03, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

== Merge Cueball & Rob ==

At the risk of posting this idea too many places and annoying everyone, I would like to propose that we consider merging [[Cueball]] and [[Rob]] and redirecting Cueball to Rob, much as [[Cutie]] now redirects to [[Megan]]. The most common name given for a Cueball-like character in the strip is "Rob". Like Megan, he is not always named. Also, like Megan, Rob tends to have distinct characteristics such as being a nerdy alter-ego to Randall (e.g. [[1168: tar]]) just as Megan often is the appearance given to comic representations of Randall's wife (see [[1141: Two Years]], before hair loss). Megan and Cueball appear to have a relationship (e.g. [[159: Boombox]]) and Megan clearly hangs out with Rob in ways not inconsistent with adventurous couples (e.g. [[782: Desecration]]). Finally, comics that feature both [[Black Hat]] and "Cueball" seem to depict them as friends and possibly roommates. However, we learn in [[1102: Fastest-Growing]] that Black Hat's roommate is named "Rob".

In short, I believe if [[159: Boombox]] had called "Cueball" "Rob" we would've rewritten both Cutie and Cueball to redirect there. Because we learned that "Cueball's" name is actually Rob much later (I think the earliest occurrences are [[647: Scary]], and [[716: Time Machine]]; the first time he is seen with Megan in a capacity that might indicate a relationship is [[782: Desecration]]). [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 19:05, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

:As I answered your comment on [[1496: Art Project]] Rob is [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comics_featuring_Rob already listed] as part of the category for Comics featuring Cueball: and this is listed as the first entry when going to the page for [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comics_featuring_Cueball Category:Comics featuring Cueball]. Cueball is such an integral part of explain xkcd that I do not think any other users wish to change. Also the 9 incidences with Rob is maybe a specific person and at the time Randall did not think to give him any features. Also Cueballs have no specific behavior as you allude to. Neither has Megan. You can always find several Cueballs and Megans that behave a certain way. But then you can find many other comics where they behave the opposite way. Thus Rob and Cueball should not be merged. Also there are several comics with more than one Cueball. And here we have this problem: It is typically the first who writes the transcript who decides who of the Cueballs (or Megans) he feels represents the "real" Cueball. However, there is no real behavior of Cueball. So who should decide. I could change all these transcripts so it becomes the other character who becomes Cueball, because I think that the first transcriber did it wrong. And this is why in a comic with more than one Cueball (where neither is called Rob or the like) neither of the two should be called Cueball. It would still be in the category with Cueball, because that is just comics with a Cueball like character no matter how many. But they cannot be named Cueball and friend or Rob and friend (unless Rob's name is mentioned!) They could be called Cueball 1 and Cueball 2, but then guy or man would be better. I know several places have comics with two Cueballs where someone has designated one of them Cueball and the other friend of foe etc. But this should be corrected so none of these are called Cueball. Same should go for more than one Megan. But this is very rare, and I have only found one other than ''Art project'' and here only one Megan had any lines. The problem with different opinions on which Cueball is which came for the first time up with Megan in ''Art project'': The two Megan-like characters was first named (left to right) Megan and Danish. Then unidentified girl and Megan. Then Megan and unidentified girl, then two Megan like girls with short and long hair and finally you reverted it to my first change away from Danish to unidentified girl and Megan. (I can live with that as there is difference in hair length and behavior). But as far as I see it Cueball is not Rob as well as Megan should have continued to be called Cutie (but I would not like to change that now, as I have grown fond of Megan). But at the time the change was done I believe it was wrong. The same fondness for the name Cueball also makes me sure that no one else would wish to call him Rob, even if that is as much his name as Megan is Cuties... --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:57, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

::My argument is that it is inertia and sentiment ("fond of Megan") that prevents an objective, equal treatment here. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 22:47, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

::Also, regarding the analogy made above to Danish. I am fine with a nickname when Randall hasn't named a character. So she was "unidentified girl" and then became "Danish". But, when we named her "Danish", we went back to "Journal 1" and other places and renamed her. My proposal is that we should go back through and rename "Cueball" as "Rob". Alternatively, we should reinstate "Cutie" for cases in which it is not clear that a character is "Megan" per se, but just Megan in her "everywoman" capacity. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 00:00, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure how to post a poll, but I see the following options:

1) Status quo: Cueball for all unidentified males without distinct characteristics (e.g. hats), Megan for all shoulder-length brunettes. Rob only for named Cueballs. Multiple Cueballs in a comic mean one is named Cueball and others get named "Friend", etc.

2) Symmetry 1: Cueball/Rob stays as is. Unnamed brunettes get named "Cutie". "Megan" like "Rob" is reserved for comics in which a name is used.

3) Symmetry 2: Megan stays as is. Rob is the default for indistinct males. "Cueball" page redirects to "Rob" (as "Cutie" now redirect to "Megan").

4) Expunge all Cueballs from multi-Cueball comics: Basically the status quo, except that in comics with multiple Cueballs none are named "Cueball" and are just all given names "Man 1", "Man 2", etc.

I am ambivalent regarding options 2 or 3. I could live with 1 if there is consensus for it, but I don't like it. 4 is a disaster in my mind and gains nothing. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 22:47, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

:We are probably the only one who reads these post...? But anyway as is clear I'm for 4. Which has been used several places already.´I can live with 1. I think 2 and 3 are disasters. Also it would be completely confusing for those who have used this page for many years. Why do you bring this up now? Is it because of the multiple Megan comics, or have you just signed up here, and dislike that it doesn't follow the rules you would have expected?--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:19, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
::I suggest instead that we create a category for multiple Cueballs, so it is easy to explain why the Cueball is not a specific character, and thus can never be Rob (except when it is clear from the text), or be expected to behave a certain way. And in reverse we make a Named Megan category so it is easy to find the few (three?) where she has been named. This by the way has nothing to do with the other suggestions, so I might just do that to get an overview. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:19, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
::: It seems more consistent to me to use [[Cutie]] for all unnamed "Megans" and reserve "Megan" for named comics. Thus, Rob is '''a''' Cueball and Megan is '''a''' Cutie. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 13:30, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

::::I've read through some of your discussions (Here, Kynde's talk page, Art Project discussion), and thought I might put my thoughts forwards. Essentially we have three questions here:
::::1) Should we merge Cueball and Rob, and rename all Cueballs as Rob?
::::2) Should we rename all Megans as Cutie, except where she is explicitly named?
::::3) Once questions 1 & 2 are answered, what do we do where the 'same' character appears multiple times in one comic?

::::*I understand the objective argument for renaming Cueball to Rob, however I'm unconvinced of the importance of being entirely objective, and I can't imagine Cueball being renamed to anything other than Cueball.
::::*I think its fairly clear where the Cueball label has come from, even if it might not be immediately obvious to some. Even if readers don't make the link between Cueball's head and a cue-ball, it is quite a generic label, which I think fits well with the transient every-man nature of Cueball's usage.
::::*There is something far more specific about the name Rob, which suggests that he is the same character every time. The origin of the name isn't obvious, which I think would be likely to cause confusion.
::::This brings me to conclude that for me, the answer to Q1 has to be that Cueball should stay as Cueball, unless explicitly named something else.

::::The question of changing Megan to Cutie is one where I am less confident. Following the arguments I've made above, the outcome has to be that we rename to Cutie unless specifically named Megan, however I am not entirely convinced. The name Megan has a history, there are surely lots of people who now know her as Megan, what do we really stand to gain from all the work of changing to Cutie? I would also suggest that the name Cutie may not be accepted well by those with strong feminist views.

::::As far as multi-character comics, I don't have time right now, but I will come back later and add my thoughts. Now that we've only got a few incomplete comics, we've had to resort to discussing renaming characters!--[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 15:07, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::I agree with the reasons for keeping Cueball and Megan. And also that Cutie is such a loaded word, that it should never have been used anyway. This I did not immediately think about, but Cutie sounds like something from either a porn movie, or else a Bond Babe... Like the phrase from one of those movies: "Hello, I'm Plenty..." Then we should have to find a third name. And everyone here knows her as Megan. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:24, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::I have created the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Multiple_Cueballs Category:Multiple Cueballs] to locate them and to show how often there are more than one. Feel free to add any I haven't found yet. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:45, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

I think Rob is Black Hat's roommate and Megan's boyfriend/partner/husband (see above). The "Cueball" in comics such as [[159: Boombox]] and [[542: Cover-Up]] should, in my view, be renamed "Rob", even though he is not explicitly called that in those comics. Most other "Cueball" comics can stay unchanged. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 00:43, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
:I have left my reason to disagree also with this on the two comics talk page. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:24, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

In my opinion, it is quite clear that [[Randall]] has chosen to name the main male protagonist [[Rob]], for the few occasions where he needs characters to call upon each other, in the same way as he has chosen [[Megan]] for the main female protagonist. We should therefore try to overcome our nostalgia, follow Randall, and call the common male protagonist Rob. The problem with multiple cueballs can most often be resolved by identifying the protagonist, from the first-person narration or the general perspective. Thus, in [[525: I Know You're Listening]] Rob is the comic's "I", to the left. In [[1110: Click and Drag]], Rob is obviously flying with a balloon. In [[610: Sheeple]] Rob is arguably the guy in the foreground facing us. Non-Rob "cueballs" we could refer to as "friend" "man", etc. In this way roughly half of the "multiple cueballs" would be resolved. I think I can live with a few unclear cases, like [[220: Philosophy]]. [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 12:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

:A featureless character has been ''specifically'' named Rob in 9 comics, compared with 968 'Comics featuring Cueball'. I believe it is fundamentally flawed to assert that because a featureless character is named Rob in less than 1% of appearances, that all featureless characters should therefore be assumed to be Rob. As I've discussed above, I think that Rob strongly implies a specific person, whereas Cueball is a vague 'everyman' character. I feel it would be a huge error to change all Cueballs to Robs.--[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 17:37, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

::The problem with that logic is that "Megan" is only named in a small number of comics (fewer that "Rob"). So we should have a different name for an unnamed generic female. [[Cutie]] is fine, but if people perceive that as sexist, then another name, maybe "Cuegirl" or "Brunette" would work. (Side note: I doubt "Cutie" would be perceived as sexist and there's history there.) What I '''do''' find sexist is the fact that there is asymmetry between male and female "everyperson"s. In sum, I would say there is at less evidence to support naming Megan-everywoman "Megan" in all cases as there is to name Rob-everyman (here called "Cueball") "Rob" in all cases. Asymmetry here ignores the fact that Randall clearly intends his name to be "Rob" and also that we are using a proper name for everywoman but a contrived name for everyman, while creating an artificial distinction between Rob and Cueball and smearing out any possible distinction between Megan-everywoman and Megan-properName. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 13:18, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

:::As I put in my earlier comment (see above), I do agree that the logical conclusion is that Megan should no longer be named Megan, and should have an equivalent generic name. As an aside, I'm quite partial to your suggestion of Cuegirl. I disagree with your assertion that "Randall clearly intends his name to be Rob", and I think that is the central point of this discussion. I don't believe that there is anywhere near enough evidence to assign a specific name to what I believe is a generic character. If we want to go for formal logic, consider the syllogism "Some non descipt characters are called Rob, there are many non-descript characters, therfore all non-descript characters are called Rob". The conclusion simply does not follow. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 14:22, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

::::Great, I vote for Cuegirl & Cueball :: Megan & Rob! [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 01:31, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I agree with Djbrasier's and St.nerol's arguments, and I too feel that the arguments against dealing with this in an objective, symmetrical and logical way seem mostly based on nostalgia. Either we agree that a few named instances of the everywoman are sufficient to generalize to the (vastly more numerous) unnamed instances, and apply the same standard to the everyman, which is only consistent (and even more justified in the case of Rob since he is named in more comics than Megan), or we decide that the extrapolation is unjustified and we revert the Cutie-->Megan merge. The alternative --having double standards and deciding things based on historical baggage and emotional attachment rather than rationality-- makes no sense for followers of the comic that ''literally invented'' nerd-sniping!

I'd also add that, as a non-native speaker, "cueball" doesn't ring any immediate bells unless the connection to cue balls is pointed out explicitly -- so actually Rob works even better as a generic name than Cueball. We have already [[#New character|agreed previously]] that clarity is better than cleverness when we named [[Hairy]], forgoing the less obvious alliteration "Harry", so I vote we use the name Randall ''actually'' gave us, let go of our attachments to a creation he never endorsed, and honor our collective nerdiness by doing the logical thing: apply our standards uniformly and adopt Rob the same way we adopted Megan. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 06:09, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

:I've already put my thoughts forward above, so I won't repeat the same ground I've covered, other than to say I believe it would be a mistake to turn all Cueballs into Robs. While I will admit to having some nostalgia for the name Cueball, that isn't a major facet of my argument. I believe that any generic name is better than a specific name. Call them Stickboy & Stickgirl if you want! I know there are a fairly significant number of contributors and visitors who do not have English as their first language, but I don't believe that is a reason to choose a specific name, rather than a generic name, even if the origin of the latter isn't immediately obvious to all. It would be interesting to know whether each of us sees Cueball as always being the same person, or Cueball *is* Randall, or Cueball is just a changeable everyman.

:To me, he is a changeable everyman, who I guess may represent or be based on: Randall, his friends, family or acquaintances, famous people, someone he saw in the street, or a completely made up character used to fill a specific role in the comic. The reason I argue againt merging Rob & Cueball is that the Cueball I see is this morphing and fluid character, and to use a specific name to tie him down to being the same character all the time runs completely counter to that. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 08:31, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

:: Understood, and sorry for mischaracterizing your argument (the nostalgia part does cloud the discussion though). I suppose I would be somewhat ambivalent to either have Rob+Megan, or Cueball+Cutie -- Cuegirl doesn't work because she has hair :) --, in the interests of reason and symmetry. But I lean slightly towards Rob+Megan because those are names Randall actually gave us, while anything else is our own invention and thus has no claim to legitimacy other than popular support.
:: Particularly, while I understand your concern about shoehorning the various personality traits the Cueballs show in different comics into a single persona, that doesn't seem to have been a problem for Megan -- not to mention real people ''are'' indeed complex and multi-faceted beings (or "morphing and fluid", to use your terms) rather than one-dimensional caricatures. Heck, even Black Hat has his romantic side! :) So in light of that, I don't think we have to worry about ruining Cueball by naming him Rob -- if anything, that'd add more depth to him as a character! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:35, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
:::I'm still very much against changing things here. Call it nostalgia, but there are many users who will never read these arguments, who one day comes back and cannot find Megan or Cueball, and will ask who the heck are Cuegirl/Cutie. I'm completely with Pudder on the problem with giving Cueball the name Rob. It just doesn't make sense. I agree that we have a inconsistency with Megan. But then everyone who uses this page a few times, becomes familiar with that name. However the main problem with all your great ideas is this. Who should correct the either 984 pages where Cueball is mentioned because he is a part of it (and all the other pages relevant to him or where he is exactly mentioned because he isn't part of the comic) and/or who should do the same for 487 comics (plus loose pages) for Megan. Unless those in favor for changing the names will do this, then the discussion is moot. It is already clearly stated in the relevant pages that these two characters are generic and that they have been named but a few times. So what more can we do unless someone is willing to use several days to change this back. I sincerely doubt you can keep the correct syntax if you just try a brute force replacement? There are so many interconnecting links etc. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:21, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

I completely disagree with merging Cueball and Rob. Rob has [[276|Emily]] and [[632|Lisa]] as girlfriends, and Cueball has Megan. Rob also lives a more action-filled and stereotypical life compared to Cueball. --[[User:Youforgotthisthing|Youforgotthisthing]] ([[User talk:Youforgotthisthing|talk]]) 13:14, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

I think the main stances here are clear:
* Keep as is
* Rename Cuball to Rob
* Change Megan back to Cutie/Cuegirl
Since keeping it status quo wouldn't change anything and is asymmetrical, I'll go over the others:
* Rename Cueball to Rob - Arguments:
** Randall gave him this name;
** It would offer symmetry to Megan;
** If the Cutie -> Megan logic is to be followed (as she was changed once named in the comics) then Cueball should be Rob;
** Even though cueball is a generic everyman name, Rob seems more like a name you could give anyone and would be more recognizable to non-native English speakers.
* Change Megan back to Cutie/Cuegirl - Arguments:
** It would cause symmetry again, letting her have an everywoman name;
** Nostalgia for Cueball;
** Megan is not always the same character, so she should not always have the name Megan

I happen to agree with the idea of merging Cueball and Rob, but I'm not closed to the idea of Cutie/Cuegirl. The main problem is that these characters are typically interchangeable everymen/everywomen and there can be more than one in a comic. So another question is what we should do for multiple Cueballs/Robs. In my opinion, we should have all the comics with more than one depict them as Man 1, Man 2, etc. --[[User:Sensorfire|Sensorfire]] ([[User talk:Sensorfire|talk]]) 17:04, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
:Well I disagree. The users are used to refeer to these characters now by these names. It is also impractical to try to change them all. Megan is rarely twice in a comic. Maybe she is more the same like Black Hat is. But it is made clear that they are not the same in every comic in their pages. If there are muliple Cueballs but one is the main protagonist then he us cueball. If none can be singled out then Cueball like guy to the left/right can be used. I have done that for tbose cases I have found so far ([[:Category:Multiple_Cueballs|49 today]]).--[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:58, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Well, somebody pointed out that the title text of [[1783: Emails]] suggests that the Cueball in the comic is most certainly not Rob, and calling the main comic character 'Man 1' as above would be silly. And on top of all this, 'Cueball' occurs so much we would probably need to take a regex to every explanation in [[:Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]. [[User:Jacky720|That's right, Jacky720 just signed this]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jacky720|contribs]]) 14:50, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Why hasn't anyone thought of the name "Hairball"? {{unsigned ip|172.68.189.187}}
:Please don't forget to sign your posts. And everybody should read this first: [[Characters]] and [[Rob]]. For short: Rob is a named Cueball. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 11:57, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

== How to fit explanations of new classes of xkcd-related mysteries into the site: what-if, t-shirts, posters, special comics etc. ==

I suggest that the [http://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:About explain xkcd] page should explain how this site is laid out, and what sorts of things are explained here besides the online numbered xkcd comics that come out three times a week.

For example, there is the [[A Smarter Planet]] series, and there are ideas for explaining some of the [http://what-if.xkcd.com/ What-If] series. I'd like to add my explanation of the [https://gist.github.com/nealmcb/398af29a72f7b3efc202 XKCD Greek t-shirt, with mathematical, scientific and engineering uses for greek letters] and perhaps some other t-shirts, posters and the like.

But I can't even figure out how to find non-numbered-comic-explanations, without going thru the entire [[Special:AllPages]] listing, which includes a huge set of unnumbered aliases as well as the numbered ones.

I've taken a stab towards that by editing the About page to point to some categories (and to start with a little overview), but since I'm just poking around, I might have missed some things. [[User:Nealmcb|Nealmcb]] ([[User talk:Nealmcb|talk]]) 19:40, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

== Link to "Special pages" on main page ==

I think there should be a link to [[Special:SpecialPages]] on the main-page--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 11:55, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
:Special pages is a default feature in every mediawiki installation. It's also in the sidebar of every page, and it's not relevant to xkcd. Why does it merit space on the main page? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 18:56, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

== Science comic ==

Should the Science Magazine comic be added? http://m.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 03:14, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
:I think that would be a great idea. Could there be other copyright rules when the comic has been published on Science? It there anyway to find out if Randall also has a link to it from (or has it on) xkcd? As he has done with the other [[:Category:Extra_Comics|Extra_Comics]]. And how do we create such a page, if there can be no link directly to xkcd (at the top of the comic)? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:24, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

== "what if?" section? ==

I would like to start a new "what if?" section explaining and discussing what if pages.--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 06:08, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
:Why does it need to exist? The main xkcd comic needs it, because Randall tends to be obtuse at times, but the what if articles are sourced and written out already. Supposedly, they're already explanations to questions sent in to Randall. Why do we need to explain explanations? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 06:29, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
::Explaining them indeed seems unnecessary, but we could certainly catalog and summarize them. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:38, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
::The images on what if? also have title texts that could further be explained, and we could organize what if pages by categories, as well as provide summaries. There are also subtle references, running gags, and in-jokes in What If? that should be explained.--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 08:44, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
::This https://what-if.xkcd.com/120/ is a example of a what if that could do with some explanations.--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 08:47, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
:::That's one of 135 what-ifs, and it's entirely self referential and can be figured out by reading the rest of the archive. The substance of the majority of pages is going to be incredibly thin, Randall doesn't tend to leave much for explanation. Comics that are simple one-shot images are our least used pages for good reason, and the what-if images pretty much all fall into that category, or are used to illustrate Randall's point that he makes in the immediately preceding paragraph. We could archive/catalog all the what-if pages and be a second archive button for the series, though there's a little less value to that than the archiving we did for [[Time]] and [[Externalities]] because there's already an archive along the same lines on the main site. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 19:14, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
::::I think the main value we could add is a summary (TL;DR style) of each entry, in a short Q&A format. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 12:13, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
If we are going forward with this, is there anyway to find the date in which the what if was first published?--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 09:01, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
:At the bottom of the page, there's an archive button. Click that. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 19:14, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Well, fact is, the [[what if?]] page is much, '''much''' larger now. [[User:Nk22|Nk22]] ([[User talk:Nk22|talk]]) 11:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
:Thank you, Nk22! I've added a link from the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd About explain xkcd] page. {{unsigned|Nealmcb}}

== Userscript ==

Hello there, just wrote a simple userscript that adds an 'Explain' button to the original xkcd.com

https://gist.github.com/magazov/934de662d60c9fb5fea9

You can run it via Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey and other similar plugins :)

[[Image:Screen_Shot_xkcd_button.png]]
{{unsigned|Magazovski}}

:Yeah, there's a few of these floating around. In the future, could you use an imgur link instead of uploading stuff like that to the wiki? Thanks. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 18:02, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

::So maybe explainxkcd should host & maintain one of them? --[[User:Magazovski|Magazovski]] ([[User talk:Magazovski|talk]]) 09:30, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
:::Why would we host an image hosting site? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 23:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
::::He means we could host and maintain a userscript to help our fans get here from xkcd.... [[User:Nealmcb|Nealmcb]] ([[User talk:Nealmcb|talk]]) 14:36, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
:::::Hum, that's not a bad idea. I'll put it on the list of things to do. Although, if they're already here, why do they need a userscript to help them get here? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:34, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
::::::For people who mainly view the comics through the official site, but sometimes need an explanation of the comic. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 09:23, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
:::::I've started collecting helpful tools like these on a [[Browser helpers|new page]], to hopefully make them easier for others to find. – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 00:29, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

== Updating the incomplete comic of the day ==

Currently, I think the incomplete comic of the day should be changed more often (i.e. daily), since the incomplete comics are piling up, and most users aren't seeing the notice, as it is dismissible.--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 11:40, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

:While I agree that the comic of the day could be changed more often, I wouldn't say that the incomplete comics are ''piling up''. Over the months I've been active here, the number of incomplete comics had fallen considerably. In fact if you check the comics which are still marked as incomplete, most of them are one where a significant effort would be required to complete them. For example the large comics (Money, Time, Congress) or dynamic comics (Externalities, Click & Drag, Pixels). --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 15:32, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
::Yeah. Of the 15 incomplete "pages," only 10 of them are actual comics that need the attention, and the full count is still dropping. I've been keeping it on single comics as of late because the remaining actual incomplete comics have been cycled through ~3 times already, with no significant effort made on them, because they're such monumental pieces of work. Making the message dismissable is by design, we are a service first and foremost, we're not trying that hard to make visitors do our work for us. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 23:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

== Infrequently recurring minor charachters ==

Should we just group all of the characters that are not of enough significance to warrant their own character page into a single page (i.e. [[Other Minor Characters]])? --{{User:17jiangz1/signature|02:58, 09 May 2015}}
:See comic [[1000]] for a sample of what this entails. Also, what value to we stand to provide by cataloging every unique character that has appeared in xkcd? Does it help us explain the comics any better? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:32, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

== Comic page creation ==

Is comic page creation not automated? If it isn't, then [[Help talk:How to add a new comic explanation]] should be created.--{{User:17jiangz1/signature|14:19, 26 May 2015}} 14:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

:Comic explanation was, at one point, automated. However, the bot ran on a schedule, and so sometimes there would be a few hours between a new comic being posted and the page getting created. Some editors just can't wait that long, so they do the bot's work before the bot even gets going. I agree that this page should be created and be kept up to date. Historically no one has read any of the help pages I've written. ;p [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:42, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

:However, I think that the page should be [[Help:Comic Explanation Page Creation]]. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:43, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

== Re-proposing merging Cueball and Rob ==

Okay, so this was previously [[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob discussed] but I felt that it was worth bringing up again. Really, at this point, there's no logical reason why the two should not be merged, or Megan and Cutie should be un-merged. Rob and Cueball clearly seem to be the same person, at least when cueball appears as a specific character. In the instances where there are multiple Cueballs, we should just refer to them as Man 1, Man 2, and so on. Can we get a vote or something this time? Yes, I understand that Cueball isn't always the same character. But neither is [[Megan]], and yet we always refer to the short black haired girl (formerly [[Cutie]]) as Megan. If that logic applies to her, it applies to Rob. It's pretty clear that Randall intended to name the character Rob, as most named Cueballs are named Rob and not Fred or something.

In short: Please don't bring nostalgia into this, it's really not relevant. Changing Cueball to Rob or Megan back to Cutie (or Cuegirl?) would have symmetry and make sense. {{unsigned ip|Sensorfire}}
:I'm ok with dumping a marginal character page that only served to add confusion to character identification in new comics, but this was a subject of contention before so we probably need to see more of people's thoughts first. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:03, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

:I agree: let's list the arguments for both sides, ensure that everyone agrees with the objectiveness of that listing, and then vote. If there's support for this plan, and nobody does it first, I'll take a stab at producing a first draft of the summary. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 23:57, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

:Randall is currently on a booktour. So, how about, instead of us (without the ability to read minds) arguing about his intention or who is/isn't the same character, someone go see him and ask? Then we'll know with absolute 100% certainty. [[User:WaltG123|WaltG123]] ([[User talk:WaltG123|talk]]) 04:49, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
::Randall never called either character Cueball and Cutie so of course this is not his names. Asking him would make no meaning at all. For any user of xkcd it will create lots of confusion to change the names of Megan and Cueball now. Regarding Rob he is already listed as Cueball in his category. And Cueballs have been called other names several times. Rob is just the only one that has been used a few times. I agree that it may have been wrong to call her Megan, (the name has been used like three times?) Similar it is just as wrong to call Black Hat's girlfriend [[Danish]], a nick name used once. But it is actually very nice to have a real name or at least useful name when speaking of characters. And it has also been mentioned that Cutie could be perused as a sexist name, so we should not move back to that. Well recently even [[Hairbun]] has her name changed from Hairbun girl since a user thought that was a problem given it most often was a grown woman. So I think we should stick to the solution of the previous debate and leave Cueball, Rob and Megan alone as they are! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 08:56, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

== Adjective phrases ==

Overwhelmed with the need to be picayune, I am compelled to point out that on the homepage there is the sentence that begins "There are a lot of comics that don't have set in stone explanations..." This sentence contains a adjective phrase which should be hyphenated thus: "set-in-stone"

Please pretend that I have said something witty here, as I am too tired to think of anything funny. {{unsigned|Gamewriter}}
:Is it actually grammatically wrong in it's current state? Huh. I guess I'll change it. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 20:42, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

::This is long after the fact, but I'll throw my two cents in on Davidy22's question. Yes, it is wrong. If the 'set in stone' phrase were after the word explanations ("explanations set in stone") it would not require hyphens, but used as an adjective before the noun ("set-in-stone explanations") it requires them. D Miller [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.41|108.162.221.41]] 18:26, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

== Update MediaWiki ==

You are currently using MediaWiki 1.19.17. It's ''really'' outdated. Maybe update to 1.26.2, the current recommended stable version? There is an [[mw:Manual:Upgrading|official guide]] for that. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.77|141.101.80.77]] 12:03, 24 January 2016 (UTC) (PS my IP address is wrong it's not what you think it is)

== Rename Hair Bun Girl ==

The character [[Hair Bun Girl]] was named in April 2015. There wasn't any discussion of the name at the time, so I'd like to open that discussion now please.

At present we have several other characters named after distinctive visual features: [[Ponytail]], [[Black Hat]], [[White Hat]], [[Beret Guy]], and arguably [[Hairy]] and [[Cueball]]. In all but one of those cases, the name matches the distinctive feature itself, without the addition of "guy", "girl", etc. Given the number of comics that Beret Guy is in it's probably too late to modify his name, but it's not too late for Hair Bun Girl.

Besides the consistency issue, there's also the inaccuracy of referring to a grown woman with the term "girl", particularly when the character has been presented as older than [[Megan]]. I'd really like to fix this while her number of appearances is still manageable.

The name "Hairbun" has been proposed and I think that matches really nicely with Ponytail in particular.

[[User:Jkshapiro|Jkshapiro]] ([[User talk:Jkshapiro|talk]]) 04:23, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
:As the "guy" who created the Hair Bun Girl characther, I have no objection to changing the name. I did not think about the issue with girl/woman, probably because I'm not native English speaker. (And with the Beret Guy as an example). Jkshapiro was so kind as to [[User_talk:Kynde#Hair_Bun_.22Girl.22|ask my opinion]] before starting this discussion. At first I thought that ''Hairbun'' was a little weird, but then again so is Ponytail in this context. So I '''support''' the change to '''Hairbun'''! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:06, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I vote '''change''' Hair Bun to Hairbun and '''keep''' girl. [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 21:02, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

OK, I'm going ahead. [[User:Jkshapiro|Jkshapiro]] ([[User talk:Jkshapiro|talk]]) 02:47, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
:Well as I said I would not mind, but you cannot say you got any other to agree with you on this though. Mimek wished to keep girl... It will be a huge job to get all the instances correct, also be careful no to change those places where the talk is of a girl who has a hair bun. You cannot just change all placed with hair bun girl to Hairbun, in case is actually says the hair bun girl about a small girl who has a hair bun! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:59, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
::Seems no one cares, so I will remove the notes now. Great job Jkshapiro with changing the names. I like the new name now :-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 22:35, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

== Mobile friendly website ==

Can we get a mobile friendly version of the wiki? If we already have one, what about forwarding the main site to it when viewed on a phone? [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 20:59, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Ditto. And/or an app. I would like to be able to keep track of which comics/explanations I have read. [[User:Calion|Calion]] ([[User talk:Calion|talk]]) 13:36, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Install [https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend the MobileFrontend-extension] on the wiki. Or is it more complicated than that? [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/User:Dgbrt Dgbrt] mentions "working on a real mobile version" below, under [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Tables_vs_bold_text Tables vs bold text] [[User:Coverbe|Coverbe]] ([[User talk:Coverbe|talk]]) 15:56, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

== New categories ==

I think there may be a need to propose a standard way to decide on categories: what new ones are needed, what are the prerequisites for creating a new category, how to maintain new categories and make sure they are actually used when they apply etc. For now I have gathered all previous discussions about new categories under this section. -- [[User:Malgond|Malgond]] ([[User talk:Malgond|talk]]) 13:39, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
:I think that whenever there are more than 4-5 comics that you wish to refer to in a given explanation because they are of the same topic as the current comic, then having a category is much to prefer rather than listing 5, 6 or 7 comics. I have made several categories for these instances, for instance for sport including the most used sports. At the time being I keep them up to date. One of the things this site does so well is giving you an easy way to find a specific comic even though you cannot remember the title of any precise quotes etc. If you just have an idea of what the topic was you might find it based on the categories. In this way I do not think we can have too many categories. As long as they describe a recurring subject. Only fault is that there seems to be no way to search for a comic based on more than one category? That would be great. In some cases even only 3 comics in a category can make sense. For instance I would be sorry to see this one go [[:Category:Puts on sunglasses]] (and I did not make it!) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:09, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
::For instance I have long wished for categories that covered all the space probe related comics, particularly all those referencing the Mars rovers. So today I made them with 16 and 9 comics in them already. [[:Category:Space probes]] [[:Category:Mars rovers]]. I hope people will generally think this was a great idea! :-) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:42, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
:::And [[:Category:The Lion King]]... --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:47, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

=== Category: Protip ===

Anyone for adding ''Protip'' as a [[:Category:Comic series|Comic series]]. I have found five so far: [[653]], [[711]], [[1022]], [[1047]] and [[1156]]. (There are also a few comics with a protip title text.) -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 10:25, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

:I think that qualifies as a recurring topic (thus worthy of a category), but not as a series, where you can see a clear sequence. In fact, [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]] has the same limitation, for what I suggest it to be removed from [[:Category:Comic series]]. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 11:42, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

::Seconded. Looks general and common enough to be a category. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:57, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

:::Okay, great! Do you think that the ones with a "protip:" title text should be included? Besides, I think I might be the one responsiple for moving My Hobby from [[:Category:Comics by topic|Comics by topic]] to Comic series. I felt that all the My Hobby comics were about different topics, but maybe i've got to narrow an interpretation of the word "topic". -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 15:31, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

:::: Can you link to the protip-in-title-text comics?
:::: As for My Hobby, note that categories aren't mutually exclusive. They can be in the "my hobby" topic, and each of them further categorized as appropriate: music, math, etc. Makes sense? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 03:45, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
:::: I just searched for protip in the xkcd search bar. Here: [[1084]], [[427]]. And yes, makes sense. I've moved My Hobby back to "by topic". -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 12:06, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

=== Category: Sports ===

How about creating a new "Sports" category? [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 15:31, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
:Well, maybe. Everyone aren't so keen on new categories here. Which comics are you thinking of, for a start? –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 20:32, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
::We definitely need to reach an agreement as a community on when to create new categories. Something simple like a minimum of 3 (or, say, 5) existing comics. Since we're already at the proposals' portal... what do you guys think about that? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 21:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
:::My opinion: Five would be enough to qualify. [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 09:31, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
::::I vote for four. But it should also be a reasonable thing to categorize, like sports, not like "sports with Cueball containing at least three anagram words". Wich sholdn't be a problem. :) But the best name choice could be tricky sometimes. e.g. "Film & television", Film & TV", "Film", "Films", or "Movies"? –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 12:59, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
:::
::::Agreed, five should be enough to create the category without having to discuss it. - [[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 00:50, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
: OK, let's start with [[588: Pep Rally|588]], [[1092: Michael Phelps|1092]], [[904: Sports|904]] and [[1107: Sports Cheat Sheet|1107]]. Should be able to find a few more. [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 05:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
::Yeah, it's a broad subject so there are probably several more. -[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 12:59, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
:::I found another one, sort of, in [[929:Speculation|929]] (although it hasn't been explained yet). Should I get the ball rolling (no pun intended) on setting up the category? Don't wanna do it unilaterally and get yelled at. ;) [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 06:18, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
::::I think you should. On a wiki, getting stuck in discussions which die without a conclusion, to the point that motivated people give up without having done anything, is definitely counter-productive, and phrases like [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Be bold|Wikipedia:Be bold]] are here to remind us of that. Seems like people agreed that you ''could'', and after a while nobody said that you ''shouldn't'', so I'd say do it. - [[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 00:50, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
:I did it without looking here first, because it was obvious there were many [[:Category:Sport|sport comics]]. I have even created four under categories (only one was there before, Chess). There are 10 comics at present that are related to other sports than the five under categories. And given the way Randall thinks about sport (not very much) he still has plenty of comics about the subject. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:33, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

=== Category: Sex ===

I think we should also create a Sex category. There's no ''doubt'' we can find more than three examples. I'll start looking for them and post the ones I find in here; again, I don't wanna create a large category by myself without community consent. [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 09:20, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
*OK, the ones for Category: Sex that I've found so far are [[443]], [[219]], [[550]], [[1026]], [[575]], [[468]], [[592]], [[320]], [[1101]], [[417]], [[713]], [[672]], [[230]], [[436]], [[940]], [[532]], [[649]], [[176]], [[1006]], [[596]] and [[717]], and I'm sure there are many more. Should we create this category? [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 23:17, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

:Same as [[#Category: Sports|above]], do it. Oh, already did; well, all the better. - [[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 00:53, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

=== Category: Flowcharts ===

Hello, the line "Randall has made use of flowcharts before." in today's comic explanation made me want a [[:Category:Flowcharts|flowcharts category]] to navigate into...

As it didn't exist, I proceeded to create it, but as the log says, [[User:lcarsos|lcarsos]] deleted such a category in November, saying ''"Insufficient differentiation from Category:Comics with charts, diluting the depth of comics tagged charts"''.

I don't agree with that, and I think we could profit from such a subcategory. I found those pages fitting it:
* [[94: Profile Creation Flowchart]]
* [[210: 90's Flowchart]]
* [[488: Steal This Comic]]
* [[627: Tech Support Cheat Sheet]]
* [[844: Good Code]]
* [[851: Na]]
* [[854: Learning to Cook]]
* [[1195: Flowchart]]

So? - [[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 10:59, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
:Weell if you're willing to take charge of the category and personally make sure it's added to all relevant comic explanations, go ahead. The usual objection to making new categories is that we admins can't remember all the categories when we're reviewing new explanations, but it's K if you're willing to take up that responsibility yourself. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:17, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
:
:: OK. I did it without waiting for further replies, because I think it will be especially profitable today (to viewers).
:: It doesn't seem a big issue to me if the correct category is not added when a new explanation is made: a passing editor will do it later on... But hey, I'm OK with taking special care of adding pages to this category.
:: [[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 12:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

::: I just want to add that Cos' view is indeed the appropriate way to work in wikis: there is no concept of a single author for a page, category, or piece of text, and the workload is meant to be distributed among several editors: it is not necessary that any single editor remembers all existing categories, or knows the wiki markup by heart, or knows how to work with all the features of mediawiki, etc. The reason why wikis can be edited by anyone is precisely a recognition that there *will* be errors and any page can be improved somehow. That reasoning against categories should, IMO, be abandoned, or at most only kept as the opinion of some editors. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 22:00, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Isnt there a page which lists all the categories? If not, there should be one, and it should be accessible to all. Such a page could be useful when trying to quick-add categories to comics. [[Special:Contributions/117.194.83.155|117.194.83.155]] 13:43, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
:Yes, there is. [[Special:Categories]]. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:07, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
::Of course, there's a gazillion of 'em, over several pages, so I understand any reluctance to add new categories (having just suggested a new one myself which I feel is justified, but knowing that the upkeep needed may be the key point of contention so remaining philosophical about it).
::A solution perhaps to carry over from another locale that I frequent is to have a "Categories of Character" page, a "Categories of Object" one, perhaps "Categories of Event", and a "Categories of Publication". For each new comic someone can easily check the shorter Character categories list against those present, the Object list against itemsin use, Events, etc, and of course the Publication one has the "Tuesday Comic"/equivalent, and other date-based ones (although isn't that automatic from templated creation? ...never added a comic, but would imagine it is). After that it's a trawl through the miscelania categories (perhaps a meta-category just for them?). But, yeah, a lot of work to set up. Wouldn't wish it on anyone who wasn't already willing to do it, and I remain an anon-IP person right now so can hardly commit ''myself'' as volunteer maintainer of this. [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 17:20, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

=== Category: (Barred/banned from?) Conferences ===

I come here after realising I erroneously posted (in reply) to the Main page Talk, being anonymous (or at least IP-only) and without a list of qualifying articles to support me, just yet, but still wish to put forward the above category before I forget. There's no apparent equivalent, that I found, but it's definitely a recurring meme. I should be back (named or otherwise) with my suggested list of members, if someone else doesn't get there first, but I thought I'd start with the placemarker. [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 16:41, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
:Ok, so I got the bee in my bonnet and spent a few minutes actually looking into this. Revising "Barred from Conferences" (actually more often "Banned" or even "Thrown out of"/equivalent) to just "Conferences", the subset of comics that I can easily find that are involved is *[[153]], *[[177]], *[[365]], *[[410]], *[[463]], *[[541]], [[545]], [[685]], [[829]] and [[867]], but I'm sure there are more recent ones that I didn't spot/recall. One alternative title to "Conferences" is "Presentations", and I'm sure if I'd searched for that I'd have found more potential candidates (less some that might ''exit'' the renamed category). The asterisked ones ''do'' deal with being barred/banned/thrown out/etc, making it still a suitable category in its own right, IMO, but I'll leave it up to your combined musings to decide. [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 17:07, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
::I add [[690]] to the list. --[[User:Chtz|Chtz]] ([[User talk:Chtz|talk]]) 08:12, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

::: Great suggestions! I created [[:Category:Public speaking]] and [[:Category:Banned from conferences]]. I also added [[Wikipedian Protester]] to the mix, of course :) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 21:59, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

=== Category: Wishes ===

[http://explainxkcd.com/1391/ Several] [http://explainxkcd.com/1086/ comics] [http://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/152:_Hamster_Ball now] [http://xkcd.com/879/ exist] that talk about wishes - probably more. Should there be a category for this? [[User:Z|Z]] ([[User talk:Z|talk]]) 23:22, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
:Doesn't seem significant enough. If you promise to maintain the category you can make it yourself, although it will be cleared out if it gets neglected as new comics are released. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 15:20, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

=== Category: Artificial Intelligence ===

Hello world.

There are a handful of comics involving Ai - [[1540]], [[1530]], [[1450]] and [[948]] for instance - and maybe it's an idea to give them their own category {{unsigned|Nk22}}

:The usual objection to new categories is that they get abandoned and are too narrow for other people to think of picking them up. If you're going to own it and update it with new comics, you can make it. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 21:01, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

=== Category: Size Comparisons ===
There are numerous comics comparing sizes of things. I can't get a list right now, but off the top of my head, radiation dosages, money, today's comic, and space shuttles in horses. [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 19:23, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

===Category: Katamari Damacy ===

There are quite a few comics about this game. [[User:DPS2004|DPS2004]] ([[User talk:DPS2004|talk]])

== Adding Ratings for Explanations ==

I found [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1652 today's explanation] excellently written however that is not always the case. Frequently explanations are walk through of the conversation that are too wordy without any succinct explanation of why or how a strip is funny -- while many of those low quality explanations are not strictly "incomplete" they could benefit from a careful rewrite. I was wondering if we should add a rating tool such as " ''Was this explanation helpful? yes/no'' " so as to identify explanation that could benefit from improvement without having to be tagged as "incomplete". [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 17:57, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
:We have a rather prominent discussion page for feedback, do we really need an additional add-on for this? I did a little research and found that other wikis use [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Rating semantic rating] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleRatings article ratings], which I can install if enough other users want it. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:54, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

== New Speculation Sections ==

I often see a lot of speculation and conjecture within the explanation of the comic itself. I don't think it has any place in the explanation but I know many editors enjoy speculating and interpreting the comic and the meaning behind it so I've decided to start this discussion on whether we should provide a section where we can provide different speculations.

What I am thinking would not be like the discussion page, where comments are made and discussed, but an edited and reviewed section which outlines different speculations and interpretations of the comics themselves and perhaps even the author's intent.

Of course tone and presentation should be held to the same standards of the comic explanation but I think this would be a good way to better organize a review of the comic.

I have been away too long to remember if there are any comic explanations with something like this so I have no idea how well it would work.

As an example;

This part from comic 1642: [[Gravitational Waves]]

" It seems that Randall knew in advance about this announcement because this comic was published on a Thursday, not following the normal publish schedule, to coincide with the announcement "

Is well supported, and rather likely correct, conjecture which belongs in the body of the explanation because not only is it backed by strong evidence but it provides background on the comic and the time in which the comic was released and aids in understanding the comic itself.

However, this part from comic 478: [[The Staple Madness]]

"From just reading the comic by itself, one may presume that in the last panel, Cueball has been stapled to the ceiling (as obvious evidence to Megan that Beret Guy has indeed been abusing her staple gun). According to the comic's official transcript, however, it is in fact God who is speaking."

Is almost as equally well supported and certainly a valid interpretation of simply the comic. It is only refuted by the official transcript. I believe it is important to acknowledge and may even be a more humorous interpretation than the one which is provided by the official transcript.

If we added a speculation section (or something of the sort) then we would have a place to talk about this interpretation more freely and expound upon it more.

[[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]]) 15:16, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
: Problem is the whole "explanation" is actually conjecture. None of us the author, we're all just guessing. [[User:Jkshapiro|Jkshapiro]] ([[User talk:Jkshapiro|talk]]) 15:23, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

: Many of the current explanations are conjecture, that's true but not every explanation. Providing information on the science or mathematics behind a particular comic is not conjecture. Stating whether the author intended to belittle the field or state that one field is superior over another (unless fairly explicitly stated) is. And there are many things which can be inferred without being simple speculation. Not every comic would need a section like this, and not every comic needs a trivia section, and I'm not ready to start adding this proposed section myself. But I think it should be considered. [[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]]) 15:35, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
::The intention of the discussion pages was to serve as a place for people to put their conjecture and reaching interpretations of the comics. They're presented alongside the explanation to make people's interpretations more readily visible. Some people may have trouble distinguishing an ungrounded interpretation of a comic from an explanation of it, and they will insert weak text into explanations. If you find something you disagree with, feel free to bring it up in the discussion section and edit it out of the explanation liberally '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 06:17, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

== Unixkcd ==

Hello everyone. I was just wondering: is there anything on http://uni.xkcd.com/. Because I was just looking and the only thing I found on Unixkcd is a mention of a bug in [[1350]]. There is not even a mention on the April fools article.
:There's nothing on this site, there's a couple of novel tidbits on the xkcd site that are at best tangentially related to the comic, as Randall originally intended to make xkcd.com his personal site for hosting his own projects. That particular one doesn't show up in any comics. Also, proposals might not be the best place to put this. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 08:46, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
::I added the unixckd information to [[721: Flatland]]. According to [https://vimeo.com/78912850 Randalls Øredev 2013 talk] unixkcd was the April Fools' prank for April 1st 2010. [[User:Condor70|Condor70]] ([[User talk:Condor70|talk]]) 09:00, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

== New character category for blonde woman news reporter (from 1699) ==

From today's comic [[1699: Local News]] I just got the idea that there may be needing a new category for either blonde woman and/or comics with news reports. I posted this [[Talk:1699:_Local_News#New_character_category|post]], in the talk page of that comic. Any comments, and if agreeing that there might be one or two different character categories needed then please suggest what they should be called. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:00, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
:Agree with Blondie as new character name and with adding a category for news reports. [[User:Jkshapiro|Jkshapiro]] ([[User talk:Jkshapiro|talk]]) 00:47, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
:Agree with new character category for Blondie --[[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]]) 12:38, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
:: Thanks for the replies. Could be nice with a few more chipping in. One issue I just found is [[Miss Lenhart]] and ambiguous situations like in comic [[59: Graduation]], where I would remove the miss reference. But then miss would be a sub category of Blondie (or Blonde? which Randall cals the girl in 59) as [[Rob]] is for [[Cueball]]... --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:07, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
:: I think blondie is fine for a name. Miss Lenhart is another character who uses a similar design so I think treating her like Rob is perfectly acceptable. The only thing more I think we should discuss is the role blondie plays in most of the comics (Like how cueball is an everyman, whitehat is often a strawman, Blackhat is blackhat etc.) [[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]]) 12:04, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
:::There are also these two that looks like Blondie: [[Mrs. Roberts]] or her daughter [[Elaine Roberts]]. I think this is part of why no one has made the category, as there are already three named women with the same hair. But there are so many other comics with this kind of woman, that I think she should be created. I hope I will get the time, but if anyone has any other ideas than just calling them "Blondie" and letting the other three be an subcategory like Rob is of Cueball then say so now before anyone creates Blondie. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 11:19, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
:::Agree with new character category and characters with the same appearance as sub-categories [[User:Lackadaisical|Lackadaisical]] ([[User talk:Lackadaisical|talk]]) 18:04, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Based on the discussion she is now called [[Blondie]] --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:27, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 And now there is also a [[:Category:News anchor]] with 15 entries already. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:22, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

== fix a page ==

The page Comics featuring Summer Glau is missing:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/526:_Converting_to_Metric {{unsigned ip|108.162.241.130}}
:Done. In the future, you can add categories yourself, just scroll to the bottom and follow the template the others go by. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 03:56, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

== New xkcd book out. ==

Any chance of posting a section of explanation pages for the cartoons in the new xkcd book, hopefully explaining some of the cryptic red notes? Thanks! {{unsigned ip|199.27.133.102}}

== Business Plan category ==

I propose renaming [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business]] into Business Plans, and adding it to [[1721: Business Idea]] [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 08:15, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
::(Note I added a ":" to your category link to show the link instead of adding this page to the category. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:43, 10 September 2016 (UTC))
:No of course not, that comic is about [[Cueball]]. This is Beret Guy's business we are talking about here. This category is not about business idea but about what [[Beret Guy]] does just like the page with [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy]]. Both are used in the explanation of who he is. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 10:43, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

== Comics with header text ==

Several comic have some header text, such as [[851]] or [[1052]]. Shouldn't there be a category for them or something? I think it is quite a notable feature. [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 15:23, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
:I feel like it's not a particularly defining feature, it feels like making a category for comics that have frames with no borders or something, it's just a technique Randall uses. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:35, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
::To me it feels more like a second title text. It is not technically part of the comic itself, but is a separate piece of information included with it on the xkcd website. There is a category for comics without title text, this is the same, only reverse, in my humble opinion [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 07:13, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

== purpose of detailed transcripts ==

There are two styles of comic descriptions in the transcripts. Some
are fairly terse, giving only the information required to understand
the comic (e.g. "Cueball is talking to Megan, who looks excited").
Others give lots of graphic details, as if one should be able to
reconstruct the picture from the description (e.g. "Cueball, on the
left, is talking to Megan, on the right. His left hand is pointing to
her. Megan's arms are raised above her head and her excitement is
shown by short lines around her head..." and so on). The former style
used to be the norm, the latter has become increasingly
common in recent months.

Being visually impaired, I am extremely pleased with the terse style
of transcript, and have no interest in the verbose style. To me it is
useless and sometimes fairly annoying. Of course, this is a community
and I can happily live with it if others find it useful.

So, I'd like to know who needs detailed, graphical transcripts, and
for what purpose? Were they requested by some users, or did those
writing transcripts just decide to adopt this new style? If there is
a clearly identified reason for describing pictures in detail, fine.
If not, I vote for switching back to the old, terse style.

Zetfr 14:10, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

:Sorry we did not see this at the time. As we can see you finally found ears for you comment after [[1798]] and a new discussion has begun on [[User_talk:Kynde#Transcript_TLDR.3B|my user page]]. (Should probably have been here?) But anyway I'm responsible for your problems, and I will try to write less in the transcript and add "other important" either below in the trivia or below the main comic (as maybe - Detailed image description...) It was meant as a way to search for any thing in the comic if you needed it. I guess most people do not read the transcript, so of course annoying if it is not useful for those who always need to read it. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 16:21, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

== Rename Science Girl "Jill" ==

Following the Precedent of "[[Megan]]" and "[[Danish]]" (but oddly enough not [[Rob]]), I propose that we rename [[Science Girl]] Jill, as per [[1662]]. This could serve to give her an easier name and to use in cases where the character doesn't have a connection with science but seems to be the same girl. [[User:Sensorfire|Sensorfire]] ([[User talk:Sensorfire|talk]]) 18:19, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
:The only time she's called Jill is in Jack and Jill comics (of course), and the only reason you'd want to do that is since [[Randall]] displays them similarly. In some cases Science Girl is even clearly older. We might do that if there was a [[Child-Blackhaired-Ponytail]] character, but these characters are always either Science Girl or Jill. Also, Jill has very, very few appearances anyway. [[User:Jacky720|Jacky720]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]]) 21:37, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

== Make an official transcript site ==
I've already taken the liberty of making {{template|transcript}}, and think we, together, can do better- which is why I'm implementing [https://jackm.000webhost.com/transcript.html this site], in order to display the official transcript in its intended format. However, it is bugged, and could do better if moved to explain xkcd. Is anyone in on this? [[User:Jacky720|Jacky720]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]]) 21:36, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
:The transcript site doesn't seem to be accessible. Is the project dead? If it's not I can try to help. [[User:Errpell|Errpell]] ([[User talk:Errpell|talk]]) 21:06, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

== HTTPS Links Back to XKCD Interfere with Random Button ==

The Links back to the comics that are present just above the comic itself on the wiki pages (and adjacent to the next and previous links) provides an HTTPS link back to XKCD. However, this interferes with users who want to click that link, and then click `random` - because `c.xkcd.com` does NOT support HTTPS, and thus clicking 'random' after returning to xkcd from explainxkcd does not work. These links should be switched back to HTTP.

--[[User:9000 volts|9000 volts]] ([[User talk:9000 volts|talk]]) 21:15, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

== Rearrange for our visually impaired friends. ==

I have a great friend who is blind and he uses this site to "read" XKCD so we can talk about it. However, there are two things that he finds frustrating. The first, while it means no harm and most readers gloss over it, when listening to the content of the page every day it can become demeaning to hear "it's because you're dumb" every time. I certainly agree, I use explain XKCD because I am significantly dumb-er than Randall, but my friend uses it because he's blind. This is not that big of a deal, but a friendly suggestion.

The second suggestion is to move the transcript section to the top before the explanation so as not to spoil the content of the comic with user explanation right away--in the case that those listening to the article are in fact smart enough to get the joke before needing an explanation.

Thanks for your consideration.

== Incomplete in spotlight ==

The incomplete comic in spotlight should be changed more often, the current one is not even incomplete. [[User:Dontknow|Dontknow]] ([[User talk:Dontknow|talk]]) 16:52, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

== Duplicate Navigation tools at bottom of page (please!) ==

I'm enjoying revisiting xkcd canon through the lens of Explain, but frustrated that after studiously reading through the explanation and discussion, I have to scroll back up to the top to get to the Next button.
What would the harm be in duplicating the buttons at the foot of each page?
Thanks for considering this.
Regards

That would be nice, would help a lot. Also, please sign your comments with four tildes. [[User:Dontknow|Dontknow]] ([[User talk:Dontknow|talk]]) 19:46, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

== JSON endpoint ==
There is a [http://www.xkcd.com/info.0.json endpoint] to retrieve information about the comics on the xkcd website. However the info there is not complete, specially when it comes to the transcripts. explainxkcd should provide a similar interface. It would be very useful specially for bots/scripts. The commmunity could help completing the information on the xkcd website and/or provide a new interface. The transcript are already retrieved from this website and a copy can be found [https://github.com/nhatzHK/randi/blob/master/json/xkcd.references.json here]. If there isn't already a complete file or databse with all the information, this file could help building it. However, this document has been compiled by scraping the html of explainxkcd, so there's some errors in it. These errors can be avoid with a clear and easy to access interface like JSON, similar to what is available on the xkcd website. [[User:Errpell|Errpell]] ([[User talk:Errpell|talk]]) 20:43, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
:Maybe there is a mediawiki addon to support a JSON file. Any ideas? --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:08, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

== Suggestion for small improvement to interface ==
Am I the only one that wishes the Previous / Next buttons were repeated at the bottom of the page? After reading the explanation, I often want to go to the next one in sequence.
(Obviously, I don't check this wiki every day :)
Scrolling back to the top isn't hard, but having the buttons near the bottom would make navigation easier.

Hope you agree!
Murray in NJ

PS: Aha! I see others have suggested the same thing :) {{unsigned ip|162.158.75.232}}
:This was also mentioned before. I don't agree because the layout is based on the original xkcd site. '''Protip''': Do not "scroll back", just use your keyboard. The magic key is called "Home". --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:14, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

== Category for The Little Prince? ==

How many comics need to feature/mention a certain thing before we need a category?

I think there are enough featuring the Little Prince to deserve a Category of its own.

== mediawiki things ==

could admin please update to the latest version of mediawiki and add the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless?useskin=timeless timeless skin], thx. also would help if you added <code>line-height: 1.5em</code> to the edit box (<code>#wpTextbox1</code>) while making it taller to compensate, or added the 2010 code editor to aid readability. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.4|162.158.92.4]] 11:50, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

== The state of "incomplete" explanations and an unified policy ==

Hello, everybody. Recently I went through the "incomplete" explanations and I saw several problems... I think I better split this into sections.

'''1) Many seemingly old and complete explanations are marked either with various creative variations of the auto-generated tag or something along the lines of "rough draft".''' I have personally removed several incomplete tags during the last days, sometimes adding few information before doing so, but usually not. But there are so many of them and it just would not feel right to take it upon myself to reap them all, so, if anyone can spare a few minutes to quickly scan them and remove (or update, in some cases) the tags, it would be nice. Here is a list of explanations with this particular problem, for convenience: [[1874]], [[1906]], [[1908]], [[1912]], [[1915]], [[1919]], [[1925]], [[1926]], [[1929]], [[1930]], [[1937]]

1940 and 1941 also seem complete IMO, but given how recent they are, they could be given some time.

'''2) Some incomplete tags seem like abuse of the feature.''' [[1909]] is probably the best example of this. Table might be nice, but it is not necessary to explain the comic, it would be just "gilding". There is nothing wrong about perfecting complete articles, but marking an article incomplete because someone got an idea how it could be done (and is too lazy to do it themselves) should be discouraged IMO. Other examples: [[1904]] - here I actually disagree with the proposal - why should information that does not represent percentages be represented using them? - but that's my personal view. [[1895]] - this one is asking for further perfection of a perfective information. [[1688]] - a '''huge''' example, asks for something that would require quite a lot of effort without helping anyone understand the comic, a cool project, but not needed for the article to be complete. [[1701]] - I really don't think this is necessary and the explanation is already twice the size I'd expect for such simple comic (*obligatory personal opinion disclaimer*).

'''3) Some tags are just... vague.''' [[1856]] and [[1733]]. "Someone could maybe improve this" applies to pretty much everything in the universe, sorry.

'''4) A policy proposal.''' Here comes the second half of the topic title. There appear to be two conflicting schools of thoughts among editors. Some seem to prefer long, meticulously detailed explanations. Others, including myself, prefer short and concise explanations. On more than one occasion, this has led to mess, so I think there should be some official policies about what kind of information should be considered considered necessary, useful, and superfluous. Obviously, every comic is different, and defining hard rules for this is impossible, so maybe "guideline" is a better word than "policy" here. Here are some suggestions about what this guideline could contain (please, take this as a "sub-suggestion", if a guideline gets accepted, but will end up containing nothing out of this, I will still be happy):

* NECESSARY: named people, groups, organizations, websites, works of art, geographic locations etc. should be briefly introduced, unless they can be presumed to be universally known (e.g. Google, Shakespeare, New York). Obscure words should be defined. Scientific and technical terms should be explained.
* SUPERFLUOUS: recursive explanations - an explanation that mentions concepts that themselves need explaining, but were not relevant to the comic itself.

I guess that's it. Maybe a little disclaimer that I don't have much time now, so I may not be here to further lead this discussion. Maybe I should have waited with posting this when I do have time, but that may not be for a long time, so for what it's worth, here it is.
--[[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 12:16, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

:Your "policy (or guideline) proposal" is that what's widely excepted here. There are some overwhelming explanations and you are welcome to help on more precise writings. But in general there is no censorship here, less important content may be moved to a trivia section below the transcript. Irrelevant content (who decides that?) may be moved to the talk page with a given reason. I'm also a fan of "short and concise explanations" but who will judge what this really is? Further more I really dislike many of those tables, it's bad layout. But changing this takes a lot of work. [[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 13:51, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

::The main reason why I want there to be an official policy is so the process of marking explanations as complete can be more straightforward. There would be a community-approved list of things an explanation needs to contain, if an explanation has all that, it is complete. Of course there would still be lot of room for interpretation because every comic is different and coming up with rules that fit all is impossible, but I believe this could still be a massive improvement over the current state.
::Also, '''please''', when I say something is merely a sub-suggestion, I mean it. Your reply gives me the feeling you understood my proposal as something along the lines of "We should make it an official policy that explanations should look like this:", whereas it was more along the lines of "There should be an official policy about what explanations should contain. Here is an example of what such policy could maybe look like:" [[User:Jaalenja|Jaalenja]] ([[User talk:Jaalenja|talk]]) 06:49, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
:::In general I don't think this is a big issue. The vast majority (99%) of the comics is ''not'' marked as incomplete and those you are citing here should be discussed at the corresponding talk pages. Thus I don't see a ''massive improvement'' anyway.
:::However we can enhance the proper section at the [[explain xkcd:Editor FAQ|Editor FAQ]] by one or two concise sentences. But when you say ''"There should be..."'' nothing would happen; that's why I say: ''"We should make it"''. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 09:36, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

== Tables vs bold text ==

There are many, many, many comics with several things mentioned in the comic that need to be individually explained, and there are two ways we can do it, one being tables (for example: [[1930: Calendar Facts]]), the other being using bold text to separate paragraphs into sections (for example: [[1972: Autogyros]]). The thing is for the most cases, it seems like we should be using tables, but then using bold text to seperate paragraphs looks better, and is also easier... So when should we use tables, and when bold text? [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 12:20, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
:IMHO we have far too much tables - a structured floating text is much easier to read. Consider this:
:*A ''List of all planets in our solar'' system with a few columns for distance (in km, mi, and AU), size, and temperature. That's a classical table.
:*The table in [[1930: Calendar Facts]] contains far too much text in many cells. Try to read this on a smartphone. And furthermore on my ''Google Chrome for Android'' all the tables from this comic are not shown at all when using the ''Simplified View''.
:*Or compare this: [[1363: xkcd Phone]] and [[1549: xkcd Phone 3]]. I prefer the floating text and even more when I'm using a mobile device.
:But that's only my opinion.
:Nevertheless I'm also working on a real mobile version of this Wiki (similar to Wikipedia) and that will require some restrictions to the layout to get it properly rendered. But this will not happen before the FIFA World Cup 2018 is over ;) --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 13:17, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
::Agreed. Narrow columns with simple facts are ok, but longer text should not be put in a table. --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]] ([[User talk:SlashMe|talk]]) 10:15, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
::: I second this. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 11:22, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
::::Please check also this new [[explain xkcd:Editor FAQ|Editor FAQ]] and the belonging talk page. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 13:04, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
::Any updates? (Why) is it not just a matter of installing [https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend the MobileFrontend-extension]? :) (See also above: [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Mobile_friendly_website Mobile friendly website]) [[User:Coverbe|Coverbe]] ([[User talk:Coverbe|talk]]) 16:01, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

== Add the comic to the edit page ==

While editing the explanation, it would be nice to be able to see the comic on that same page, especially for the transcript. (it's difficult for mobile editors to see two pages at once)
:Please sign your comments, and that’s not possible from what I know, considering how this website is set up. (I can still edit fine on mobile) [[User:Netherin5|Netherin5]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 13:49, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

== Dark theme/night mode ==

Should I explain this?

It's for all of us who edit the wiki at 1am and like our retinas.

Firefox has a [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-theme-enhanced/?src=recommended Dark Theme Extension], and it looks pretty good on the Wiki. [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-theme-for-google-chr/annfbnbieaamhaimclajlajpijgkdblo Chrome does too], but I haven't tried it out.

== Change dates to match ISO 8601. ==

Can we change the timestamps to match [[1179: ISO 8601]]? I'm surprised this hasn't been suggested earlier [[User:9yz|9yz]] ([[User talk:9yz|talk]]) 20:33, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

== Add bookmark ==

I have used some simple javascript to create a bookmarklet that automatically opens the wiki-page of the xkcd page that you are reading. I would like to provide it on the wiki. It works as follows.

1. Make a bookmark, give it a recognizable name.
2. For the url, enter the following: javascript: document.location = document.URL.replace('xkcd.com','explainxkcd.com');
3. Create the bookmark. To use it, open any xkcd page and click it to go to the corresponding wiki page.

Thanks for considering.
[[User:Kwonunn|Kwonunn]] ([[User talk:Kwonunn|talk]]) 18:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

:Thanks Kwonunn! I've started collecting these helpful tools on a [[Browser helpers|new page]], to hopefully make them easier for others to find. – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 01:30, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

== Regarding using facebook like and google captcha - Privacy concerns ==

Considering that they track users across various sites, it is not in the best interests of the users' privacy.

https://complianz.io/google-recaptcha-and-the-gdpr-a-possible-conflict/ - This article explains the issues better than I can.

Especially the users who use VPNs affected more - it takes noticeably longer and more tries to pass the google captcha. Preventing/dis-incentivizing new contributors from behind a VPN. There is anecdotal evidence (in the form of reddit posts) that google captcha discriminates firefox users and allow chrome users to get simpler challenges or none at all.

The Facebook like button is an iframe. Users visiting this page(s) have not explicitly consented to being tracked by facebook and google.

I am speculating here, but from the amount of data these two items are gathering, it seems possible to de-anonymize the users who are behind a vpn. I don't trust either of these companies to not grab the free data. In the article listed above, it seems captcha alone can capture a screenshot of the pages without users' (explicit) consent. I haven't read through all the privacy and terms.

Captcha is necessary for avoiding spam. There are alternatives. Anything but google one should suffice. Regarding the facebook like button, I think that should be replaced by a link to the facebook page. {{unsigned ip|172.68.38.88}}
:I think this can be done only by admins, who are currently absent from this wiki. However regarding the Captcha, there is an easy fix: Register here, and log into your account (an one-time e-mail address is sufficient, if you are worried about your privacy). Also please sign your comments to talk pages and other discussions (such as this) - It will not show the IP related to you/your VPN, but one from cloudfare, so it will also not hurt your privacy, but automatically put a timestamp, etc.

== Removing unnecessary 3-comic categories? ==

I count eight categories on explainxkcd that satisfy the following properties: 1. They have only three comics in them. 2. They aren't really a comic series; they just feature or reference a comic theme. 3. They aren't Featuring some person or character. In short, they seem to have no real reason to exist. (They're [[:Category:Spice_Girls|t]][[:Category:Wind_turbine|h]][[:Category:CubeSats|e]][[:Category:Ender%27s_Game|s]][[:Category:Optimization|e]] [[:Category:Git|o]][[:Category:FernGully|n]][[:Category:Giraffes|e]]s.) So my proposal: remove them. -[[User:Account|Account]] ([[User talk:Account|talk]]) 20:37, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
:In addition, there are [[:Category:Sketches|t]][[:Category:BSD|h]][[:Category:Emacs|i]][[:Category:Identity_Theft|r]][[:Category:Katamari_Damacy|t]][[:Category:Super_Bowl|e]][[:Category:The_Matrix|e]][[:Category:Tournament_bracket|n]][[:Category:Traffic_light| ]][[:Category:Trebuchet|m]][[:Category:Wingsuit|o]][[:Category:Euler_diagrams|r]][[:Category:Pedantic|e]] four-comic categories that also seem rather in need of deletion.
:: Shouldn't the community at least have some time to expand on these categories, in case they're currently incomplete? For example, [[:Category:The Matrix]] is on your list and now contains 7 strips, and [[:Category:Tournament bracket]] got its 5th entry after your post. Even if they're not, a theme category can save some typing in the search box (and is probably also cheaper in terms of server resources than all the searches it'll eliminate). [[User:Promethean|Promethean]] ([[User talk:Promethean|talk]]) 22:43, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
:::So what do you think the limit should be for categories? Should we create a category when two comics mention the same topic? Three? --[[User:Account|Account]] ([[User talk:Account|talk]]) 16:28, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
::::Three seems reasonable to me, and I could see a case being made for two. Categories aren't expensive. [[User:Promethean|Promethean]] ([[User talk:Promethean|talk]]) 00:17, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

== New transcript ==

The transcripts in the comic pages are quite inconsistent, especially in the brackets where you have to describe what happens in the panels. If I understand correctly, the transcripts are for people to copy the text in the comic without having to type them out. If that's the case, then I think propose a new transcript. This transcript should have the comic with the words erased, and then the copy-pasteable words on top of that. Such a transcript would have no room for error, which would let anyone contribute to a seamless transcript.
:The aim of the transcript is to provide a text-only version of the comic that would allow someone who is visually impaired to use a text-to-speech converter to understand the comic and also in a machine readable format for searching (see the [[explain_xkcd:Editor_FAQ#What_is_the_format_of_the_transcript_section?|Editor FAQ]]). Anything using mark-up, images or anything other than plain text will interfere with this and so should be avoided in the transcript. [[User:A(l)Chemist|AlChemist]] ([[User talk:A(l)Chemist|talk]]) 18:22, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

== Add title text and heading to transcript section ==

It has always bothered me that the transcript did not include the title text since it contributes so much to the humor of the comics. Also, it looks to me like the comic heading is sometimes included as part of the transcript and sometimes left out. I checked the previous proposals and did not see any discussion of these issues. Please consider having a policy going forward of including the heading and the title text within the transcript. [[User:Rtanenbaum|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum|talk]]) 22:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
:To my understanding (and also others, see discussion directly above) one of the main points of the transcript is to make the comics searchable, the other is, to make it readable when images are not an option. In both cases the comic's name and the title text mentioned above and below the image should be sufficient. I personally think this convention is fine. [[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 08:28, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

::Pardon me -- (and, '''<big>''thanks'' for your patience</big>''') -- if this is too off-topic (/slash "boring") or [[wikt:TMI|TMI]] (see {{w|Information overload#Web accuracy}} e.g.), '''...OR''' if this should have been posted elsewhere ...instead of here.

::IMHO the term '''"title text"''' is a misnomer. I think the term is used to refer to the little (or, '''BIG!''') pop-up -- (kinda like what is sometimes called a <code>"tooltip"</code>, but ... aren't those usually pretty '''small?''') -- that appears when one "hovers" his mouse [pointer] over an XKCD cartoon. ...at least, according to '''the "Talk:" page section''' [[Template talk:comic#The template field called .22titletext.22]] which was added almost 3 years ago. I think that calling it a <code>"BONUS text"</code> would be even better than calling it a "caption". However, [to me], '''either one''' of those terms would make sense ''WAY'' more than calling it a '''"title text"''' ... for reasons which are stated in the [Template] "Talk:" page section mentioned (and ... '''LINKED TO''') above. '''<big>Any Comments? . . ''' *** Thanks! *** for listening!</big> --[[User:Mike Schwartz|Mike Schwartz]] ([[User talk:Mike Schwartz|talk]]) 08:57, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

:::Hi Mike, I see your point, and yes, something like "bonus text" might be a bit more descriptive. But FWIW, I think the reason it's called "title text" is because that's the text that appears in the <code>[https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_title.asp title]</code> attribute of the HTML <code>[https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp <img>]</code> tag of the comic's image on the xkcd.com site. For example, at https://xkcd.com/2364/, the code for the comic image looks like this:
<pre>
<img src="//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/parity_conservation.png"
title="Bloody Mary is made of antimatter. It explains so much."
alt="Parity Conservation"
srcset="//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/parity_conservation_2x.png 2x">
</pre>
:::In there, you can see the title text as <code>title="Bloody Mary is made of antimatter. It explains so much."</code> See [[title text|here]] for more explanation about that, and some discussions about it [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous#Common mistake|here]]. – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 03:11, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

== Wikipedia links. ==

I think the links to Wikipedia should have symbols, so it's not confusing which ones lead to other comic pages.

== It's time to remove the HTTPS lock icon ==

Explainxkcd should do the same thing that browser makers have done: treat HTTPS as the modern standard, and mark HTTP as the deviation instead.

Here are appropriate replacement icons:
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unlock_Icon_Red_(32_bit).png
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unlock_Icon_Red_(4_bit).gif
- [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 12:49, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

== New page for Randall's regular column in the New York Times ==
Randall Munroe has been writing and illustrating a monthly science column in the New York Times. I suggest a page in this Wiki, indexing those columns. For some reason the New York Times itself does not provide such an index. If they ever do add one, we would still have a topic article here, similar to the one we have for the What If blog, that could link to their index. --[[User:JohnB|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB|talk]]) 00:47, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
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=== New York Times column: Good Question ===

'''Good Question''' is a more-or-less monthly column written and illustrated by '''[[Randall|Randall Munroe]]''' in the '''[https://www.nytimes.com/section/science Science section of the New York Times]''', beginning in November 2019. The columns give serious answers to science questions, in Munroe's inimitable style.

The New York Times website ordinarily requires registration, and its content is always protected by copyright. Most particularly it is ''not'' under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License] the way [[xkcd]] is. The good news: anyone can register for a free digital subscription to the New York Times, with access to 'recent' Science articles among some others, but outside of that only five articles per month. See [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/info/help/freesearch.html Free Articles].

Unlike for many of their other regular columnists, the New York Times does not provide a clickable link either on the byline '''Randall Munroe''' or on the column title '''Good Question'''. The following tables are intended to correct that omission.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ New York Times columns ''by'' Randall Munroe
! Column !! Headline !! Byline !! Date
|-
! SCIENCE
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/science/what-makes-a-red-sky-at-night-and-at-morning.html What Makes a Red Sky at Night (and at Morning)]
| Randall Munroe
| Aug. 13, 2019
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/science/randall-munroe-moon.html If I Touched the Moon, What Would It Feel Like?]
| Randall Munroe
| Nov. 12, 2019
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://nytimes.com/2019/12/10/science/earth-size-mass.html Is Earth Getting Bigger Over Time?]
| Randall Munroe
| Dec. 10, 2019
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/science/human-running-speed-quadruped.html How Fast Can a Human Run?]
| Randall Munroe
| Jan. 21, 2020 / Feb. 7, 2020
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/science/worst-odor-smell-thioacetone.html What’s the World’s Worst Smell?]
| Randall Munroe
| Feb. 17, 2020 / Feb. 26, 2020
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://nytimes.com/2020/03/10/science/question-randall-munroe-bobsled-gravity.html What if Galileo Had Dropped Bobsleds From the Tower of Pisa?]
| Randall Munroe
| March 10, 2020
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/science/pulsar-xkcd-munroe-stars.html How’s the View From a Spinning Star?]
| Randall Munroe
| April 7, 2020
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/science/traffic-barrier-rice-krispies.html What’s the Sweetest, Crispiest Way to Stay Safe in a Car Crash?]
| Randall Munroe
| May 11, 2020
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/science/randall-munroe-question-eggs.html Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?]
| Randall Munroe
| June 9, 2020
|-
! GOOD QUESTION
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/science/neutrinos-snowball-randall-munroe.html Could You Make a Snowball of Neutrinos?]
| Randall Munroe
| July 7, 2020
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ New York Times columns ''about'' Randall Munroe
! Column !! Headline !! Byline !! Date
|-
! LINK BY LINK
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26link.html This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix]
| Noam Cohen
| May 26, 2008
|-
! BITS
| [https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/techs-favorite-cartoonist-enters-mainstream-publishing/ Tech’s Favorite Cartoonist Enters Mainstream Publishing]
| Noam Cohen
| March 14, 2014
|-
! SCIENCE
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/science/randall-munroe-the-creator-of-xkcd-explains-complexity-through-absurdity.html He’s Glad You Asked]
| Kenneth Chang
| Nov. 3, 2014
|-
! BOOKS
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/books/randall-munroe-explains-it-all-for-us.html Randall Munroe Explains It All for Us]
| Alexandra Alter
| Nov. 23, 2015
|-
! SCIENCE
| [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/randall-munroe-xkcd-science-textbook.html Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School]
| Kenneth Chang
| March 21, 2016
|-
! SCIENCE
| [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/18/science/document-Munroepages.html Randall Munroe of ‘XKCD’ Explains the Human Body, Elevators and the Saturn 5]
| (Actual pages from '''{{w|Thing_Explainer|Thing Explainer}}''')
| March 21, 2016
|}
------

: Looks goods to me, you should probably make that an article of its own, maybe [[New York Times: Good Question]]? --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]] ([[User talk:SlashMe|talk]]) 22:58, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

: {{notice|I went and added the page, here: [[New York Times: Good Question]] --[[User:JohnB|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB|talk]]) 02:42, 11 July 2020 (UTC)}}

== Bring back the {{rw}} template! please ==

Can someone restore the <nowiki>{{rw}}</nowiki> template? I insist on its existence. I further assure that it will be of much use. It was deleted by an admin. — [[User:Sqrt-1|The 𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭]] [[User talk:Sqrt-1|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1|stalk]] 06:10, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
:nm, did it myself. — [[User:Sqrt-1|The 𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭]] [[User talk:Sqrt-1|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1|stalk]] 04:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

== Link to high-resolution images? ==

The wiki includes the "standard" resolution images, but would it be worth adding a link to the higher-resolution image on each page? It appears that this could be automated in at least a strong majority of cases: if the standard image is ''xyzzy.png'', the hi-res one is ''xyzzy'''_2x'''.png'' . [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 22:10, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
:Please stop adding this to the explanations. This is not needed. [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 08:56, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
::The high-resolution image was quite useful in parsing the "Amelia's Farm Fresh Cookies" comic. I'm not convinced that the hi-res images are commonly known. I've been reading xkcd for about 7 years and hadn't heard about them until I stumbled across a mention of them in one of the Discussions here. What is the harm in having a one-line ''link'' here? -- not, I emphasize, the actual image, which would take up a great deal of space. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 17:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
:::I didn't know about the high-resolution images either. While it might be a bit repetitive to add a full sentence to every comic's explanation, I agree that having ''some'' easy way to link to the hi-res image on xkcd.com could be handy. For example, maybe a "hi-res" or "2x" button before the "Next >" button above the comic in [[Template:comic]]? That's a bit extreme, but I added an example template, derived from the existing [[Template:comic]], to demonstrate how that could work:
:::* Template: [[User:Yfmcpxpj/Template:comic 2x test]]
:::* Demo: [[User:Yfmcpxpj/Sandbox#2x comic template test]]
:::With those changes to the template, for all comics as of [[1084]] the "2x" button would automatically appear. (No need to go back and change all comics.) This assumes the images hosted on explainxkcd generally have the same filename as on xkcd.com, but there are optional parameters to override the filename or omit the "2x" button altogether for specific exceptions. I'm not suggesting we actually go ahead and implement this; but if there was enough interest, an admin would be needed anyway, to make the changes within [[Template:comic]], which is currently protected. – [[User:Yfmcpxpj|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj|talk]]) 23:25, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
::::FWIW, I like this. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 20:25, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

== Proposal to replace the top section with this... ==

I have come up with a new design for the top section of all community portals...
It’s located here... https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Sandbox&oldid=199882 — [[User:Sqrt-1|The 𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭]] [[User talk:Sqrt-1|talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1|stalk]] 14:15, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
<hr/>
{|-
|valign="top" width="80%"|[[File:Crystal Clear app ktip.png|left|120px]] <big><big>Proposals</big></big>

Ideas to improve the wiki's design and organization can be added here. {{AddNewSection|Page=Explain XKCD:Community portal/Proposals|Text=(+post)}}

|valign="top" xalign="right" width="100%"|[[File:Crystal Clear app package settings blue.png|50px|link=https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Technical]][[File:Crystal Clear teamwork.png|50px|link=https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Coordination]][[File:Mop.svg|50px|link=https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests]][[File:Internet-group-chat.svg|50px|link=https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Miscellaneous]]
|}

502: Dark Flow

2020-11-07T23:29:07Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Explanation */ Fix typo: "fa" -> "a"

{{comic
| number = 502
| date = November 10, 2008
| title = Dark Flow
| image = dark_flow.png
| titletext = The Pioneer anomaly is due to the force of my love.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic is about {{w|astronomy}} and the {{w|Your Mom}} jokes that have become increasingly widespread in urban parlance. [[Beret Guy]] is reading a research paper which is presumably discussing {{w|Dark Flow}}, an observed anomaly in the motions of the galaxies which some theorize is caused by an unobservable sibling universe or similarly super massive object beyond the edge of the visible universe. [[Cueball]] sees this as an opportunity to make yet another Your Mom joke, implying that Beret Guy's mother is fat.

But apparently, Beret Guy's mother is dead, or at least missing, and he takes the joke seriously. He looks toward the sky, and wishes that his mom pull harder, so he could be with her. The joke has been turned onto itself.

The title text is a continuation of Beret Guy's thoughts and refers to another piece of science phenomenon that has been observed in space, the {{w|Pioneer Anomaly}}. The ''{{w|Pioneer 10}}'' and ''{{w|Pioneer 11}}'' spacecraft had been slowed down by an (at the time) unknown force as they exited the solar system, which he says is caused by the force of his love, probably toward his mom. This force has since been explained entirely in 2012 by the probes being decelerated by thermal radiation.

In [[2310: Great Attractor]] the more local {{w|Great Attractor}} is pulling Beret Guy so hard that he can sleep on vertical surfaces when it is close to the horizon.

==Transcript==
:[Beret Guy is sitting at a computer, and Cueball is sitting in an armchair, reading either a book or a newspaper.]
:Beret Guy: According to this A.S.T. paper, every galaxy is being pulled toward one area of the sky.

:[Only Cueball.]
:Beret Guy [off-panel]: They hypothesize that it may be due to a supermassive object beyond the edge of the visible universe.
:Cueball: Maybe it's your mom. Zing!

:[Only Beret Guy.]
:Beret Guy: Do you think?

:[Outside at night, on a rooftop. Beret Guy is looking up to the sky, next to a telescope.]
:Beret Guy: Pull harder, mom.
:Beret Guy: I Miss you.

==Trivia==
* Beret Guy's "A.S.T. paper" might refer to the [https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/592947 article] that first mentioned the theory of {{w|Dark flow|dark flow}}, published shortly before this comic. The article appeared in the {{w|American Astronomical Society}}'s {{w|The Astrophysical Journal|Astrophysical Journal Letters}} (ApJL), but it is unclear what is meant by "A.S.T." in the comic.

{{comic discussion}}

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2020-11-04T05:54:09Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Documentation */ Links to interwiki docs.

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| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
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[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
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| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
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<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
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{{template|template}}
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| '''Plain link'''
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| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
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| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
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| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
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| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
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<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
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| Link to an '''IMDb''' page
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| [[IMDb:A New Hope]] [[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]] [[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]] [[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]] [[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]
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| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
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| {{tvtropes|AssPull}} {{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}} [[TVtropes:AssPull]]
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| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Urbandict:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}} [[Urbandict:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wookieepedia''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wikia''' project and article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Mozilla Developer Network''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wayback Machine/Internet Archive''' page history
| <code><nowiki>[[IArchive:xkcd.com]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IArchive:xkcd.com]]
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Google:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Cache:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
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|-
| Byline
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}</code>
| {{byline|author 1}} {{byline|author 1|author 2}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}
|-
| Done
| <code>{{tl|done}}</code>
| {{done}}
|-
| Outdent
| <code><nowiki>::::::::::::::::::::indented text</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:outdent|outdent]]<nowiki>|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text</nowiki></code>
|
::::::::::::::::::::indented text
{{outdent|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text
|-
| Reference
| <code><nowiki>Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref></nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>
| Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref>
<references />
|}

== Styles ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Color
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Color|Color]]|blue|some blue text}}</code>
| {{Color|blue|some blue text}}
|-
| Hover text
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Hov|Hov]]|hover text|some text}}</code>
| {{Hov|hover text|some text}}
|-
| No wrap
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nowrap|nowrap]]|long text}}</code>
| {{nowrap|long text}}
|}

== Code ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Result
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code
|}

== Magic words ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Full name of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}</pre>
| {{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}
|-
| Talk namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}
|-
| The current page, including parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}
|-
| The current page, excluding parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Talk page of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Hide the table of contents.
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Force the table of contents in its normal position.
| <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Display the table of contents at the current position.
| <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Current timestamp, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| Current year, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}
|-
| Current month, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Abbreviation, UTC. Name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Abbreviation, server. Name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTMONTH}}
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{LOCALMONTH}}
{{LOCALMONTH1}}
{{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
{{LOCALMONTHNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALMONTH}} {{LOCALMONTH1}} {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}} {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
|-
| Current week, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}
|-
| Current date, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Day of the week number, UTC. Day of the week name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Day of week number, server. Day of week name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTDAY2}}
{{CURRENTDAY}}
{{CURRENTDOW}}
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{LOCALDAY2}}
{{LOCALDAY}}
{{LOCALDOW}}
{{LOCALDAYNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTDAY2}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDOW}} {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{LOCALDAY2}} {{LOCALDAY}} {{LOCALDOW}} {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
|-
| Current time (24-hour), UTC. Current hour, zero-padded, UTC. Server time. Server hour.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIME}}
{{CURRENTHOUR}}
{{LOCALTIME}}
{{LOCALHOUR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIME}} {{CURRENTHOUR}} {{LOCALTIME}} {{LOCALHOUR}}
|}

== Documentation ==

* [[mw:Help:Magic words]]
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]]
* [[mw:Help:System message]]
* [[mw:Manual:Configuration settings]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Mainpage]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Pagetitle]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Stylesheets]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/IDs and classes]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript]]
* [[mw:Manual:Tagline (Site Subtitle)]]
* [[mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php]] – TODO: document these
* [[mw:Manual:Interwiki]]
* [[mw:Special:Interwiki]]
* [[mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules]]

= Other =
* [[Browser helpers]]

User:Yfmcpxpj

2020-11-04T05:52:19Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Links */ One more interwiki prefix that is in the docs.

= This site =
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value !! Special Pages
|-
| '''Name'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SITENAME}}
| rowspan="3" |
* [[Talk:Main Page]]
* [[explain xkcd:Community portal]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/All]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous]]
|-
| '''Domain'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|-
| '''URL'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVER}}
|-
| '''Version'''
| <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></code>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
|
* [[Special:Version]] – full version information
|-
| '''Statistics'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:Statistics]] – site statistics
|-
| '''Messages'''
| <pre>{{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}}
{{int:xkcd-com}}
{{int:xkcd.com-url}}
{{int:xkcdstore}}
{{int:xkcdstore-url}}</pre>
| {{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}} {{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}} {{int:xkcd-com}} {{int:xkcd.com-url}} {{int:xkcdstore}} {{int:xkcdstore-url}}
|
* [[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=8
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}
* [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
* [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]]
* [[MediaWiki:Tagline]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd-com]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url]]
|-
| '''CSS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.css]]
|-
| '''JS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.js]]
|-
! colspan="4" | Pages
|-
| '''Edits'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}
|
* [[Special:RecentChanges]] – recent edits
|-
| '''Pages'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
|
* [[Special:AllPages]] – all pages
* [[Special:NewPages]] – recently-created pages
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] – uncategorized pages
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] – pages that link to nothing
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] – pages to which nothing links
** [[:Category:Pages to delete]] – pages marked for deletion
* [[Special:WantedPages]] – linked non-existent pages
* [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – pages protected from creation
* [[Special:ProtectedPages]] – pages protected from editing
* [[Special:PrefixIndex]] – query sub-pages
* [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] – query linked pages
* [[Special:SpecialPages]] – special pages
* [[Special:Watchlist]] – watched pages
* [[Special:Search]] – search
|-
| '''Files'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=6
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}
* [[Special:ListFiles]] – query all files
* [[Special:NewFiles]] – recently-created files
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]] – uncategorized files
* [[Special:UnusedFiles]] – files to which nothing links
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] – linked non-existent files
|-
| '''Categories'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=14
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}
* [[Special:Categories]] – all categories
** [[:Category:Root category]] – root category
** [[:Category:Meta]] – meta category
** [[:Category:explain xkcd]] – site category
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] – uncategorized categories
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] – categories used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] – used non-existent categories
* [[Special:TrackingCategories]] – error categories, etc.
|-
| '''Templates'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=10
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}
* [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]] – uncategorized templates
* [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] – templates used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]] – used non-existent templates
|-
| '''Redirects'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:ListRedirects]] – all redirects
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – redirects to nothing
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – redirects to redirects
|-
! colspan="4" | Users
|-
| '''Users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers]] – query all users
* [[Special:Contributions]] – query user contributions
* [[Special:UserRights]] – query user groups/permissions
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] – group permissions
* [[:Category:Spamfighter]] – users designated as spam fighters
|-
| '''Bureaucrats'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] – query all bureaucrats
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bureaucrat
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
|-
| '''Administrators'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
{{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] – query all administrators
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
|-
| '''Bots'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] – query all bots
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bot
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}
|-
| '''Active users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] – query all active users
|}

= This page =

* [[Special:MyPage]]
** [[User:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Yfmcpxpj
*** [[Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
**** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=User:Yfmcpxpj
**** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
***** {{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

== Subpages ==
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=User:Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Subpages
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki></code>
| {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
|}

=== CSS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.css]]

=== JS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.js]]

== Statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value
|-
| '''ID'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONID}}
|-
| '''User'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|-
| '''Size (bytes)'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONSIZE}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONSIZE}}
|-
| '''Timestamp'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| '''Year'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
| '''Month''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
|-
| '''Date''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
|}

= This user =
* [[Special:MyTalk]]
** [[User talk:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Yfmcpxpj
* [[Special:Contributions/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions?target=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}
* [[Special:UserRights/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights?user=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}

= Reference =

== Links ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
! colspan="3" | Internal links
|-
| Enclose the page name between double square brackets.
| <code><nowiki>[[1]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1]]
|-
| Provide an optional alternate title after a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[1|title]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
|-
| To prevent category inclusion, prefix with a colon.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics]]
|-
| To hide the namespace, append a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics|]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics|Comics]]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to internal pages
|-
| Bare URL, optionally specifying the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter.
| <pre>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no</pre>
| https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no
|-
| Enclose a protocol-relative or canonical URL between square brackets,
and provide an optional alternate title after a space.
| <pre>[//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function, bare, or between square brackets
with an optional alternate title, with optional query parameters.
| <pre>{{canonicalurl:1}}
{{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}}
[{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| {{canonicalurl:1}} {{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}} [{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to broken internal pages
|-
| colspan="3" | What if internal links are broken to pages ending with question marks or with special characters in the name? (Indeed, ''[[what if?]]'') Instead, the page simply says, "No input file specified." In that case, you can use specific forms of external links to reach the page.
|-
| Specify the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter in a link.
| <code><nowiki>[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function with a query parameter such as <code>redirect=no</code>.
| <code><nowiki>[{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function with a query parameter
such as <code>redirect=no</code> in a protocol-relative URL.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
! colspan="3" | Special links
|-
| Link to a '''MediaWiki''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[mw:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></code>
| [[mw:MediaWiki]]
|-
| Link to a '''template''', formatted in wiki syntax
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tl|tl]]|tl}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
| {{tl|tl}}
{{template|template}}
|-
| Link to a comic's '''explanation'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{explain|1}}
{{explain|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to the '''most recent''' comic's explanation
| <code>{{tl|most recent comic}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{tl|LATESTCOMIC}}]]</code>
| {{most recent comic}}
[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]
|-
| Link to a '''diff'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}</code>
| {{diff|1}} {{diff|1|first diff}} {{diff|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}
|-
| '''Plain link'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:link|link]]<nowiki>|https://example.com|example link}}</nowiki></code>
| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to a comic '''transcript''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
|-
| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
{{what if|1|Relativistic Baseball}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
| <code>{{tl|w}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[w:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{w}} {{w|xkcd}} {{w|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}} [[Wikipedia:xkcd]] [[w:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wiktionary''' definition
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wiktionary:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[wikt:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| {{Wiktionary|malamanteau}} {{Wiktionary|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}} [[Wiktionary:malamanteau]] [[wikt:malamanteau]]
|-
| Link to a '''RationalWiki''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
|-
| Link to an '''IMDb''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[IMDb:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IMDb:A New Hope]] [[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]] [[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]] [[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]] [[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]
|-
| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[TVtropes:AssPull]]</nowiki></code>
| {{tvtropes|AssPull}} {{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}} [[TVtropes:AssPull]]
|-
| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Urbandict:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}} [[Urbandict:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wookieepedia''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wikia''' project and article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Mozilla Developer Network''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wayback Machine/Internet Archive''' page history
| <code><nowiki>[[IArchive:xkcd.com]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IArchive:xkcd.com]]
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Google:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Cache:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| Some text.{{Lookup|xkcd}} [[Google:xkcd]] [[Cache:xkcd]] [[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]
|}

== Annotations ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
|-
| Citation needed
| <code>Text needing citation.{{tl|Citation needed}}</code>
| Text needing citation.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| Dubious
| <code>Dubious text.{{tl|Dubious}}</code>
| Dubious text.{{Dubious}}
|-
| NSFW
| <code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].</nowiki>{{tl|NSFW}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].{{</nowiki>[[Template:NSFW|NSFW]]|reason}}</code>
| [https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW}}
[https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW|reason}}
|-
| Note
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:note|note]]|some note}}</code>
| {{note|some note}}
|-
| Quote
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author|source}}</code>
| {{Quote|text}}{{Quote|text|author}}{{Quote|text|author|source}}
|-
| Byline
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}</code>
| {{byline|author 1}} {{byline|author 1|author 2}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}
|-
| Done
| <code>{{tl|done}}</code>
| {{done}}
|-
| Outdent
| <code><nowiki>::::::::::::::::::::indented text</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:outdent|outdent]]<nowiki>|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text</nowiki></code>
|
::::::::::::::::::::indented text
{{outdent|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text
|-
| Reference
| <code><nowiki>Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref></nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>
| Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref>
<references />
|}

== Styles ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Color
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Color|Color]]|blue|some blue text}}</code>
| {{Color|blue|some blue text}}
|-
| Hover text
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Hov|Hov]]|hover text|some text}}</code>
| {{Hov|hover text|some text}}
|-
| No wrap
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nowrap|nowrap]]|long text}}</code>
| {{nowrap|long text}}
|}

== Code ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Result
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code
|}

== Magic words ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Full name of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}</pre>
| {{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}
|-
| Talk namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}
|-
| The current page, including parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}
|-
| The current page, excluding parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Talk page of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Hide the table of contents.
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Force the table of contents in its normal position.
| <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Display the table of contents at the current position.
| <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Current timestamp, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| Current year, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}
|-
| Current month, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Abbreviation, UTC. Name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Abbreviation, server. Name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTMONTH}}
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{LOCALMONTH}}
{{LOCALMONTH1}}
{{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
{{LOCALMONTHNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALMONTH}} {{LOCALMONTH1}} {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}} {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
|-
| Current week, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}
|-
| Current date, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Day of the week number, UTC. Day of the week name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Day of week number, server. Day of week name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTDAY2}}
{{CURRENTDAY}}
{{CURRENTDOW}}
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{LOCALDAY2}}
{{LOCALDAY}}
{{LOCALDOW}}
{{LOCALDAYNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTDAY2}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDOW}} {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{LOCALDAY2}} {{LOCALDAY}} {{LOCALDOW}} {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
|-
| Current time (24-hour), UTC. Current hour, zero-padded, UTC. Server time. Server hour.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIME}}
{{CURRENTHOUR}}
{{LOCALTIME}}
{{LOCALHOUR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIME}} {{CURRENTHOUR}} {{LOCALTIME}} {{LOCALHOUR}}
|}

== Documentation ==

* [[mw:Help:Magic words]]
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]]
* [[mw:Help:System message]]
* [[mw:Manual:Configuration settings]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Mainpage]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Pagetitle]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Stylesheets]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/IDs and classes]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript]]
* [[mw:Manual:Tagline (Site Subtitle)]]
* [[mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php]]
* [[mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules]]

= Other =
* [[Browser helpers]]

User:Yfmcpxpj

2020-11-04T05:31:47Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Links */ Additional interwiki links from MediaWiki 1.30 source code/mediawiki/maintenance/interwiki.sql

= This site =
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value !! Special Pages
|-
| '''Name'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SITENAME}}
| rowspan="3" |
* [[Talk:Main Page]]
* [[explain xkcd:Community portal]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/All]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous]]
|-
| '''Domain'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|-
| '''URL'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVER}}
|-
| '''Version'''
| <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></code>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
|
* [[Special:Version]] – full version information
|-
| '''Statistics'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:Statistics]] – site statistics
|-
| '''Messages'''
| <pre>{{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}}
{{int:xkcd-com}}
{{int:xkcd.com-url}}
{{int:xkcdstore}}
{{int:xkcdstore-url}}</pre>
| {{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}} {{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}} {{int:xkcd-com}} {{int:xkcd.com-url}} {{int:xkcdstore}} {{int:xkcdstore-url}}
|
* [[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=8
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}
* [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
* [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]]
* [[MediaWiki:Tagline]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd-com]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url]]
|-
| '''CSS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.css]]
|-
| '''JS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.js]]
|-
! colspan="4" | Pages
|-
| '''Edits'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}
|
* [[Special:RecentChanges]] – recent edits
|-
| '''Pages'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
|
* [[Special:AllPages]] – all pages
* [[Special:NewPages]] – recently-created pages
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] – uncategorized pages
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] – pages that link to nothing
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] – pages to which nothing links
** [[:Category:Pages to delete]] – pages marked for deletion
* [[Special:WantedPages]] – linked non-existent pages
* [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – pages protected from creation
* [[Special:ProtectedPages]] – pages protected from editing
* [[Special:PrefixIndex]] – query sub-pages
* [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] – query linked pages
* [[Special:SpecialPages]] – special pages
* [[Special:Watchlist]] – watched pages
* [[Special:Search]] – search
|-
| '''Files'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=6
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}
* [[Special:ListFiles]] – query all files
* [[Special:NewFiles]] – recently-created files
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]] – uncategorized files
* [[Special:UnusedFiles]] – files to which nothing links
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] – linked non-existent files
|-
| '''Categories'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=14
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}
* [[Special:Categories]] – all categories
** [[:Category:Root category]] – root category
** [[:Category:Meta]] – meta category
** [[:Category:explain xkcd]] – site category
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] – uncategorized categories
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] – categories used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] – used non-existent categories
* [[Special:TrackingCategories]] – error categories, etc.
|-
| '''Templates'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=10
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}
* [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]] – uncategorized templates
* [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] – templates used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]] – used non-existent templates
|-
| '''Redirects'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:ListRedirects]] – all redirects
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – redirects to nothing
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – redirects to redirects
|-
! colspan="4" | Users
|-
| '''Users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers]] – query all users
* [[Special:Contributions]] – query user contributions
* [[Special:UserRights]] – query user groups/permissions
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] – group permissions
* [[:Category:Spamfighter]] – users designated as spam fighters
|-
| '''Bureaucrats'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] – query all bureaucrats
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bureaucrat
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
|-
| '''Administrators'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
{{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] – query all administrators
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
|-
| '''Bots'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] – query all bots
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bot
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}
|-
| '''Active users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] – query all active users
|}

= This page =

* [[Special:MyPage]]
** [[User:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Yfmcpxpj
*** [[Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
**** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=User:Yfmcpxpj
**** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
***** {{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

== Subpages ==
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=User:Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Subpages
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki></code>
| {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
|}

=== CSS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.css]]

=== JS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.js]]

== Statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value
|-
| '''ID'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONID}}
|-
| '''User'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|-
| '''Size (bytes)'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONSIZE}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONSIZE}}
|-
| '''Timestamp'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| '''Year'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
| '''Month''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
|-
| '''Date''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
|}

= This user =
* [[Special:MyTalk]]
** [[User talk:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Yfmcpxpj
* [[Special:Contributions/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions?target=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}
* [[Special:UserRights/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights?user=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}

= Reference =

== Links ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
! colspan="3" | Internal links
|-
| Enclose the page name between double square brackets.
| <code><nowiki>[[1]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1]]
|-
| Provide an optional alternate title after a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[1|title]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
|-
| To prevent category inclusion, prefix with a colon.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics]]
|-
| To hide the namespace, append a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics|]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics|Comics]]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to internal pages
|-
| Bare URL, optionally specifying the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter.
| <pre>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no</pre>
| https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no
|-
| Enclose a protocol-relative or canonical URL between square brackets,
and provide an optional alternate title after a space.
| <pre>[//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function, bare, or between square brackets
with an optional alternate title, with optional query parameters.
| <pre>{{canonicalurl:1}}
{{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}}
[{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| {{canonicalurl:1}} {{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}} [{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to broken internal pages
|-
| colspan="3" | What if internal links are broken to pages ending with question marks or with special characters in the name? (Indeed, ''[[what if?]]'') Instead, the page simply says, "No input file specified." In that case, you can use specific forms of external links to reach the page.
|-
| Specify the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter in a link.
| <code><nowiki>[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function with a query parameter such as <code>redirect=no</code>.
| <code><nowiki>[{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function with a query parameter
such as <code>redirect=no</code> in a protocol-relative URL.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
! colspan="3" | Special links
|-
| Link to a '''MediaWiki''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[mw:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></code>
| [[mw:MediaWiki]]
|-
| Link to a '''template''', formatted in wiki syntax
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tl|tl]]|tl}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
| {{tl|tl}}
{{template|template}}
|-
| Link to a comic's '''explanation'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{explain|1}}
{{explain|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to the '''most recent''' comic's explanation
| <code>{{tl|most recent comic}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{tl|LATESTCOMIC}}]]</code>
| {{most recent comic}}
[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]
|-
| Link to a '''diff'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}</code>
| {{diff|1}} {{diff|1|first diff}} {{diff|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}
|-
| '''Plain link'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:link|link]]<nowiki>|https://example.com|example link}}</nowiki></code>
| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to a comic '''transcript''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
|-
| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
{{what if|1|Relativistic Baseball}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
| <code>{{tl|w}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{w}} {{w|xkcd}} {{w|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}} [[Wikipedia:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wiktionary''' definition
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wiktionary:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[wikt:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| {{Wiktionary|malamanteau}} {{Wiktionary|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}} [[Wiktionary:malamanteau]] [[wikt:malamanteau]]
|-
| Link to a '''RationalWiki''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
|-
| Link to an '''IMDb''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[IMDb:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IMDb:A New Hope]] [[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]] [[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]] [[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]] [[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]
|-
| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[TVtropes:AssPull]]</nowiki></code>
| {{tvtropes|AssPull}} {{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}} [[TVtropes:AssPull]]
|-
| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Urbandict:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}} [[Urbandict:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wookieepedia''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wikia''' project and article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Mozilla Developer Network''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wayback Machine/Internet Archive''' page history
| <code><nowiki>[[IArchive:xkcd.com]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IArchive:xkcd.com]]
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Google:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Cache:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| Some text.{{Lookup|xkcd}} [[Google:xkcd]] [[Cache:xkcd]] [[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]
|}

== Annotations ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
|-
| Citation needed
| <code>Text needing citation.{{tl|Citation needed}}</code>
| Text needing citation.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| Dubious
| <code>Dubious text.{{tl|Dubious}}</code>
| Dubious text.{{Dubious}}
|-
| NSFW
| <code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].</nowiki>{{tl|NSFW}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].{{</nowiki>[[Template:NSFW|NSFW]]|reason}}</code>
| [https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW}}
[https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW|reason}}
|-
| Note
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:note|note]]|some note}}</code>
| {{note|some note}}
|-
| Quote
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author|source}}</code>
| {{Quote|text}}{{Quote|text|author}}{{Quote|text|author|source}}
|-
| Byline
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}</code>
| {{byline|author 1}} {{byline|author 1|author 2}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}
|-
| Done
| <code>{{tl|done}}</code>
| {{done}}
|-
| Outdent
| <code><nowiki>::::::::::::::::::::indented text</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:outdent|outdent]]<nowiki>|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text</nowiki></code>
|
::::::::::::::::::::indented text
{{outdent|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text
|-
| Reference
| <code><nowiki>Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref></nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>
| Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref>
<references />
|}

== Styles ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Color
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Color|Color]]|blue|some blue text}}</code>
| {{Color|blue|some blue text}}
|-
| Hover text
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Hov|Hov]]|hover text|some text}}</code>
| {{Hov|hover text|some text}}
|-
| No wrap
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nowrap|nowrap]]|long text}}</code>
| {{nowrap|long text}}
|}

== Code ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Result
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code
|}

== Magic words ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Full name of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}</pre>
| {{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}
|-
| Talk namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}
|-
| The current page, including parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}
|-
| The current page, excluding parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Talk page of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Hide the table of contents.
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Force the table of contents in its normal position.
| <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Display the table of contents at the current position.
| <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Current timestamp, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| Current year, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}
|-
| Current month, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Abbreviation, UTC. Name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Abbreviation, server. Name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTMONTH}}
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{LOCALMONTH}}
{{LOCALMONTH1}}
{{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
{{LOCALMONTHNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALMONTH}} {{LOCALMONTH1}} {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}} {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
|-
| Current week, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}
|-
| Current date, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Day of the week number, UTC. Day of the week name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Day of week number, server. Day of week name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTDAY2}}
{{CURRENTDAY}}
{{CURRENTDOW}}
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{LOCALDAY2}}
{{LOCALDAY}}
{{LOCALDOW}}
{{LOCALDAYNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTDAY2}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDOW}} {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{LOCALDAY2}} {{LOCALDAY}} {{LOCALDOW}} {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
|-
| Current time (24-hour), UTC. Current hour, zero-padded, UTC. Server time. Server hour.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIME}}
{{CURRENTHOUR}}
{{LOCALTIME}}
{{LOCALHOUR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIME}} {{CURRENTHOUR}} {{LOCALTIME}} {{LOCALHOUR}}
|}

== Documentation ==

* [[mw:Help:Magic words]]
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]]
* [[mw:Help:System message]]
* [[mw:Manual:Configuration settings]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Mainpage]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Pagetitle]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Stylesheets]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/IDs and classes]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript]]
* [[mw:Manual:Tagline (Site Subtitle)]]
* [[mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php]]
* [[mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules]]

= Other =
* [[Browser helpers]]

User:Yfmcpxpj

2020-11-04T05:19:25Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Links */ Add interwiki links

= This site =
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value !! Special Pages
|-
| '''Name'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SITENAME}}
| rowspan="3" |
* [[Talk:Main Page]]
* [[explain xkcd:Community portal]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/All]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous]]
|-
| '''Domain'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|-
| '''URL'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVER}}
|-
| '''Version'''
| <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></code>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
|
* [[Special:Version]] – full version information
|-
| '''Statistics'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:Statistics]] – site statistics
|-
| '''Messages'''
| <pre>{{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}}
{{int:xkcd-com}}
{{int:xkcd.com-url}}
{{int:xkcdstore}}
{{int:xkcdstore-url}}</pre>
| {{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}} {{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}} {{int:xkcd-com}} {{int:xkcd.com-url}} {{int:xkcdstore}} {{int:xkcdstore-url}}
|
* [[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=8
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}
* [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
* [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]]
* [[MediaWiki:Tagline]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd-com]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url]]
|-
| '''CSS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.css]]
|-
| '''JS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.js]]
|-
! colspan="4" | Pages
|-
| '''Edits'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}
|
* [[Special:RecentChanges]] – recent edits
|-
| '''Pages'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
|
* [[Special:AllPages]] – all pages
* [[Special:NewPages]] – recently-created pages
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] – uncategorized pages
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] – pages that link to nothing
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] – pages to which nothing links
** [[:Category:Pages to delete]] – pages marked for deletion
* [[Special:WantedPages]] – linked non-existent pages
* [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – pages protected from creation
* [[Special:ProtectedPages]] – pages protected from editing
* [[Special:PrefixIndex]] – query sub-pages
* [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] – query linked pages
* [[Special:SpecialPages]] – special pages
* [[Special:Watchlist]] – watched pages
* [[Special:Search]] – search
|-
| '''Files'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=6
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}
* [[Special:ListFiles]] – query all files
* [[Special:NewFiles]] – recently-created files
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]] – uncategorized files
* [[Special:UnusedFiles]] – files to which nothing links
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] – linked non-existent files
|-
| '''Categories'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=14
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}
* [[Special:Categories]] – all categories
** [[:Category:Root category]] – root category
** [[:Category:Meta]] – meta category
** [[:Category:explain xkcd]] – site category
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] – uncategorized categories
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] – categories used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] – used non-existent categories
* [[Special:TrackingCategories]] – error categories, etc.
|-
| '''Templates'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=10
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}
* [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]] – uncategorized templates
* [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] – templates used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]] – used non-existent templates
|-
| '''Redirects'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:ListRedirects]] – all redirects
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – redirects to nothing
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – redirects to redirects
|-
! colspan="4" | Users
|-
| '''Users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers]] – query all users
* [[Special:Contributions]] – query user contributions
* [[Special:UserRights]] – query user groups/permissions
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] – group permissions
* [[:Category:Spamfighter]] – users designated as spam fighters
|-
| '''Bureaucrats'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] – query all bureaucrats
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bureaucrat
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
|-
| '''Administrators'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
{{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] – query all administrators
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
|-
| '''Bots'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] – query all bots
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bot
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}
|-
| '''Active users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] – query all active users
|}

= This page =

* [[Special:MyPage]]
** [[User:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Yfmcpxpj
*** [[Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
**** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=User:Yfmcpxpj
**** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
***** {{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

== Subpages ==
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=User:Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Subpages
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki></code>
| {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
|}

=== CSS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.css]]

=== JS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.js]]

== Statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value
|-
| '''ID'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONID}}
|-
| '''User'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|-
| '''Size (bytes)'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONSIZE}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONSIZE}}
|-
| '''Timestamp'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| '''Year'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
| '''Month''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
|-
| '''Date''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
|}

= This user =
* [[Special:MyTalk]]
** [[User talk:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Yfmcpxpj
* [[Special:Contributions/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions?target=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}
* [[Special:UserRights/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights?user=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}

= Reference =

== Links ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
! colspan="3" | Internal links
|-
| Enclose the page name between double square brackets.
| <code><nowiki>[[1]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1]]
|-
| Provide an optional alternate title after a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[1|title]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
|-
| To prevent category inclusion, prefix with a colon.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics]]
|-
| To hide the namespace, append a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics|]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics|Comics]]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to internal pages
|-
| Bare URL, optionally specifying the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter.
| <pre>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no</pre>
| https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no
|-
| Enclose a protocol-relative or canonical URL between square brackets,
and provide an optional alternate title after a space.
| <pre>[//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function, bare, or between square brackets
with an optional alternate title, with optional query parameters.
| <pre>{{canonicalurl:1}}
{{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}}
[{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| {{canonicalurl:1}} {{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}} [{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to broken internal pages
|-
| colspan="3" | What if internal links are broken to pages ending with question marks or with special characters in the name? (Indeed, ''[[what if?]]'') Instead, the page simply says, "No input file specified." In that case, you can use specific forms of external links to reach the page.
|-
| Specify the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter in a link.
| <code><nowiki>[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function with a query parameter such as <code>redirect=no</code>.
| <code><nowiki>[{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function with a query parameter
such as <code>redirect=no</code> in a protocol-relative URL.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
! colspan="3" | Special links
|-
| Link to a '''MediaWiki''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[mw:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></code>
| [[mw:MediaWiki]]
|-
| Link to a '''template''', formatted in wiki syntax
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tl|tl]]|tl}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
| {{tl|tl}}
{{template|template}}
|-
| Link to a comic's '''explanation'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{explain|1}}
{{explain|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to the '''most recent''' comic's explanation
| <code>{{tl|most recent comic}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{tl|LATESTCOMIC}}]]</code>
| {{most recent comic}}
[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]
|-
| Link to a '''diff'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}</code>
| {{diff|1}} {{diff|1|first diff}} {{diff|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}
|-
| '''Plain link'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:link|link]]<nowiki>|https://example.com|example link}}</nowiki></code>
| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to a comic '''transcript''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
|-
| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
{{what if|1|Relativistic Baseball}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
| <code>{{tl|w}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{w}} {{w|xkcd}} {{w|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}} [[Wikipedia:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wiktionary''' definition
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Wiktionary:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| {{Wiktionary|malamanteau}} {{Wiktionary|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}} [[Wiktionary:malamanteau]]
|-
| Link to a '''RationalWiki''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
|-
| Link to an '''IMDb''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IMDbName:Mark Hamill]] [[IMDbTitle:A New Hope]] [[IMDbCompany:Lucasfilm]] [[IMDbCharacter:Luke Skywalker]]
|-
| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[TVtropes:AssPull]]</nowiki></code>
| {{tvtropes|AssPull}} {{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}} [[TVtropes:AssPull]]
|-
| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Urbandict:xkcd]]</nowiki></code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}} [[Urbandict:xkcd]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wookieepedia''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wikia''' project and article
| <code><nowiki>[[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Wikia:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[WikiaSite:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicities:w:c:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]] [[Wikicity:Wookieepedia:A New Hope]]
|-
| Link to a '''Mozilla Developer Network''' article
| <code><nowiki>[[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]</nowiki></code>
| [[Devmo:Web/API/Window]]
|-
| Link to a '''Wayback Machine/Internet Archive''' page history
| <code><nowiki>[[IArchive:xkcd.com]]</nowiki></code>
| [[IArchive:xkcd.com]]
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>[[Google:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[Cache:xkcd]]</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>[[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]</nowiki></code>
| Some text.{{Lookup|xkcd}} [[Google:xkcd]] [[Cache:xkcd]] [[GoogleDefine:malamanteau]]
|}

== Annotations ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
|-
| Citation needed
| <code>Text needing citation.{{tl|Citation needed}}</code>
| Text needing citation.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| Dubious
| <code>Dubious text.{{tl|Dubious}}</code>
| Dubious text.{{Dubious}}
|-
| NSFW
| <code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].</nowiki>{{tl|NSFW}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].{{</nowiki>[[Template:NSFW|NSFW]]|reason}}</code>
| [https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW}}
[https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW|reason}}
|-
| Note
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:note|note]]|some note}}</code>
| {{note|some note}}
|-
| Quote
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author|source}}</code>
| {{Quote|text}}{{Quote|text|author}}{{Quote|text|author|source}}
|-
| Byline
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}</code>
| {{byline|author 1}} {{byline|author 1|author 2}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}
|-
| Done
| <code>{{tl|done}}</code>
| {{done}}
|-
| Outdent
| <code><nowiki>::::::::::::::::::::indented text</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:outdent|outdent]]<nowiki>|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text</nowiki></code>
|
::::::::::::::::::::indented text
{{outdent|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text
|-
| Reference
| <code><nowiki>Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref></nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>
| Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref>
<references />
|}

== Styles ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Color
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Color|Color]]|blue|some blue text}}</code>
| {{Color|blue|some blue text}}
|-
| Hover text
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Hov|Hov]]|hover text|some text}}</code>
| {{Hov|hover text|some text}}
|-
| No wrap
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nowrap|nowrap]]|long text}}</code>
| {{nowrap|long text}}
|}

== Code ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Result
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code
|}

== Magic words ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Full name of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}</pre>
| {{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}
|-
| Talk namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}
|-
| The current page, including parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}
|-
| The current page, excluding parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Talk page of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Hide the table of contents.
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Force the table of contents in its normal position.
| <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Display the table of contents at the current position.
| <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Current timestamp, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| Current year, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}
|-
| Current month, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Abbreviation, UTC. Name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Abbreviation, server. Name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTMONTH}}
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{LOCALMONTH}}
{{LOCALMONTH1}}
{{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
{{LOCALMONTHNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALMONTH}} {{LOCALMONTH1}} {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}} {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
|-
| Current week, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}
|-
| Current date, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Day of the week number, UTC. Day of the week name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Day of week number, server. Day of week name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTDAY2}}
{{CURRENTDAY}}
{{CURRENTDOW}}
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{LOCALDAY2}}
{{LOCALDAY}}
{{LOCALDOW}}
{{LOCALDAYNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTDAY2}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDOW}} {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{LOCALDAY2}} {{LOCALDAY}} {{LOCALDOW}} {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
|-
| Current time (24-hour), UTC. Current hour, zero-padded, UTC. Server time. Server hour.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIME}}
{{CURRENTHOUR}}
{{LOCALTIME}}
{{LOCALHOUR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIME}} {{CURRENTHOUR}} {{LOCALTIME}} {{LOCALHOUR}}
|}

== Documentation ==

* [[mw:Help:Magic words]]
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]]
* [[mw:Help:System message]]
* [[mw:Manual:Configuration settings]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Mainpage]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Pagetitle]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Stylesheets]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/IDs and classes]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript]]
* [[mw:Manual:Tagline (Site Subtitle)]]
* [[mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php]]
* [[mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules]]

= Other =
* [[Browser helpers]]

User:Yfmcpxpj

2020-11-04T03:54:48Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* Documentation */ Add JS, CSS, URL parameter doc links.

= This site =
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value !! Special Pages
|-
| '''Name'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SITENAME}}
| rowspan="3" |
* [[Talk:Main Page]]
* [[explain xkcd:Community portal]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/All]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous]]
|-
| '''Domain'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|-
| '''URL'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVER}}
|-
| '''Version'''
| <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></code>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
|
* [[Special:Version]] – full version information
|-
| '''Statistics'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:Statistics]] – site statistics
|-
| '''Messages'''
| <pre>{{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}}
{{int:xkcd-com}}
{{int:xkcd.com-url}}
{{int:xkcdstore}}
{{int:xkcdstore-url}}</pre>
| {{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}} {{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}} {{int:xkcd-com}} {{int:xkcd.com-url}} {{int:xkcdstore}} {{int:xkcdstore-url}}
|
* [[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=8
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}
* [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
* [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]]
* [[MediaWiki:Tagline]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd-com]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url]]
|-
| '''CSS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.css]]
|-
| '''JS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.js]]
|-
! colspan="4" | Pages
|-
| '''Edits'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}
|
* [[Special:RecentChanges]] – recent edits
|-
| '''Pages'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
|
* [[Special:AllPages]] – all pages
* [[Special:NewPages]] – recently-created pages
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] – uncategorized pages
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] – pages that link to nothing
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] – pages to which nothing links
** [[:Category:Pages to delete]] – pages marked for deletion
* [[Special:WantedPages]] – linked non-existent pages
* [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – pages protected from creation
* [[Special:ProtectedPages]] – pages protected from editing
* [[Special:PrefixIndex]] – query sub-pages
* [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] – query linked pages
* [[Special:SpecialPages]] – special pages
* [[Special:Watchlist]] – watched pages
* [[Special:Search]] – search
|-
| '''Files'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=6
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}
* [[Special:ListFiles]] – query all files
* [[Special:NewFiles]] – recently-created files
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]] – uncategorized files
* [[Special:UnusedFiles]] – files to which nothing links
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] – linked non-existent files
|-
| '''Categories'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=14
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}
* [[Special:Categories]] – all categories
** [[:Category:Root category]] – root category
** [[:Category:Meta]] – meta category
** [[:Category:explain xkcd]] – site category
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] – uncategorized categories
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] – categories used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] – used non-existent categories
* [[Special:TrackingCategories]] – error categories, etc.
|-
| '''Templates'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=10
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}
* [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]] – uncategorized templates
* [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] – templates used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]] – used non-existent templates
|-
| '''Redirects'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:ListRedirects]] – all redirects
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – redirects to nothing
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – redirects to redirects
|-
! colspan="4" | Users
|-
| '''Users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers]] – query all users
* [[Special:Contributions]] – query user contributions
* [[Special:UserRights]] – query user groups/permissions
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] – group permissions
* [[:Category:Spamfighter]] – users designated as spam fighters
|-
| '''Bureaucrats'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] – query all bureaucrats
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bureaucrat
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
|-
| '''Administrators'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
{{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] – query all administrators
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
|-
| '''Bots'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] – query all bots
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bot
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}
|-
| '''Active users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] – query all active users
|}

= This page =

* [[Special:MyPage]]
** [[User:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Yfmcpxpj
*** [[Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
**** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=User:Yfmcpxpj
**** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
***** {{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

== Subpages ==
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=User:Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Subpages
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki></code>
| {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
|}

=== CSS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.css]]

=== JS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.js]]

== Statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value
|-
| '''ID'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONID}}
|-
| '''User'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|-
| '''Size (bytes)'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONSIZE}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONSIZE}}
|-
| '''Timestamp'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| '''Year'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
| '''Month''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
|-
| '''Date''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
|}

= This user =
* [[Special:MyTalk]]
** [[User talk:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Yfmcpxpj
* [[Special:Contributions/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions?target=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}
* [[Special:UserRights/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights?user=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}

= Reference =

== Links ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
! colspan="3" | Internal links
|-
| Enclose the page name between double square brackets.
| <code><nowiki>[[1]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1]]
|-
| Provide an optional alternate title after a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[1|title]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
|-
| To prevent category inclusion, prefix with a colon.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics]]
|-
| To hide the namespace, append a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics|]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics|Comics]]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to internal pages
|-
| Bare URL, optionally specifying the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter.
| <pre>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no</pre>
| https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no
|-
| Enclose a protocol-relative or canonical URL between square brackets,
and provide an optional alternate title after a space.
| <pre>[//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function, bare, or between square brackets
with an optional alternate title, with optional query parameters.
| <pre>{{canonicalurl:1}}
{{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}}
[{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| {{canonicalurl:1}} {{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}} [{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to broken internal pages
|-
| colspan="3" | What if internal links are broken to pages ending with question marks or with special characters in the name? (Indeed, ''[[what if?]]'') Instead, the page simply says, "No input file specified." In that case, you can use specific forms of external links to reach the page.
|-
| Specify the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter in a link.
| <code><nowiki>[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function with a query parameter such as <code>redirect=no</code>.
| <code><nowiki>[{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function with a query parameter
such as <code>redirect=no</code> in a protocol-relative URL.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
! colspan="3" | Special links
|-
| Link to a '''MediaWiki''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[mw:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></code>
| [[mw:MediaWiki]]
|-
| Link to a '''template''', formatted in wiki syntax
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tl|tl]]|tl}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
| {{tl|tl}}
{{template|template}}
|-
| Link to a comic's '''explanation'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{explain|1}}
{{explain|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to the '''most recent''' comic's explanation
| <code>{{tl|most recent comic}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{tl|LATESTCOMIC}}]]</code>
| {{most recent comic}}
[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]
|-
| Link to a '''diff'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}</code>
| {{diff|1}} {{diff|1|first diff}} {{diff|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}
|-
| '''Plain link'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:link|link]]<nowiki>|https://example.com|example link}}</nowiki></code>
| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to a comic '''transcript''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
|-
| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
{{what if|1|Relativistic Baseball}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
| <code>{{tl|w}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}</code>
| {{w}} {{w|xkcd}} {{w|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wiktionary''' definition
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}</code>
| {{Wiktionary|malamanteau}} {{Wiktionary|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}
|-
| Link to a '''RationalWiki''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
|-
| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}</code>
| {{tvtropes|AssPull}}
{{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}
|-
| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition (currently broken)
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code>
| Some text.{{Lookup|xkcd}}
|}

== Annotations ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
|-
| Citation needed
| <code>Text needing citation.{{tl|Citation needed}}</code>
| Text needing citation.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| Dubious
| <code>Dubious text.{{tl|Dubious}}</code>
| Dubious text.{{Dubious}}
|-
| NSFW
| <code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].</nowiki>{{tl|NSFW}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].{{</nowiki>[[Template:NSFW|NSFW]]|reason}}</code>
| [https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW}}
[https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW|reason}}
|-
| Note
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:note|note]]|some note}}</code>
| {{note|some note}}
|-
| Quote
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author|source}}</code>
| {{Quote|text}}{{Quote|text|author}}{{Quote|text|author|source}}
|-
| Byline
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}</code>
| {{byline|author 1}} {{byline|author 1|author 2}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}
|-
| Done
| <code>{{tl|done}}</code>
| {{done}}
|-
| Outdent
| <code><nowiki>::::::::::::::::::::indented text</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:outdent|outdent]]<nowiki>|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text</nowiki></code>
|
::::::::::::::::::::indented text
{{outdent|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text
|-
| Reference
| <code><nowiki>Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref></nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>
| Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref>
<references />
|}

== Styles ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Color
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Color|Color]]|blue|some blue text}}</code>
| {{Color|blue|some blue text}}
|-
| Hover text
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Hov|Hov]]|hover text|some text}}</code>
| {{Hov|hover text|some text}}
|-
| No wrap
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nowrap|nowrap]]|long text}}</code>
| {{nowrap|long text}}
|}

== Code ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Result
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code
|}

== Magic words ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Full name of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}</pre>
| {{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}
|-
| Talk namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}
|-
| The current page, including parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}
|-
| The current page, excluding parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Talk page of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Hide the table of contents.
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Force the table of contents in its normal position.
| <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Display the table of contents at the current position.
| <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Current timestamp, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| Current year, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}
|-
| Current month, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Abbreviation, UTC. Name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Abbreviation, server. Name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTMONTH}}
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{LOCALMONTH}}
{{LOCALMONTH1}}
{{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
{{LOCALMONTHNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALMONTH}} {{LOCALMONTH1}} {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}} {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
|-
| Current week, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}
|-
| Current date, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Day of the week number, UTC. Day of the week name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Day of week number, server. Day of week name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTDAY2}}
{{CURRENTDAY}}
{{CURRENTDOW}}
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{LOCALDAY2}}
{{LOCALDAY}}
{{LOCALDOW}}
{{LOCALDAYNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTDAY2}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDOW}} {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{LOCALDAY2}} {{LOCALDAY}} {{LOCALDOW}} {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
|-
| Current time (24-hour), UTC. Current hour, zero-padded, UTC. Server time. Server hour.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIME}}
{{CURRENTHOUR}}
{{LOCALTIME}}
{{LOCALHOUR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIME}} {{CURRENTHOUR}} {{LOCALTIME}} {{LOCALHOUR}}
|}

== Documentation ==

* [[mw:Help:Magic words]]
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]]
* [[mw:Help:System message]]
* [[mw:Manual:Configuration settings]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Mainpage]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Pagetitle]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/Stylesheets]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/IDs and classes]]
** [[mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript]]
* [[mw:Manual:Tagline (Site Subtitle)]]
* [[mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php]]
* [[mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules]]

= Other =
* [[Browser helpers]]

User:Yfmcpxpj

2020-11-04T03:13:46Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* This page */ Add user CS/JSS pages.

= This site =
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value !! Special Pages
|-
| '''Name'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SITENAME}}
| rowspan="3" |
* [[Talk:Main Page]]
* [[explain xkcd:Community portal]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/All]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous]]
|-
| '''Domain'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|-
| '''URL'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVER}}
|-
| '''Version'''
| <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></code>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
|
* [[Special:Version]] – full version information
|-
| '''Statistics'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:Statistics]] – site statistics
|-
| '''Messages'''
| <pre>{{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}}
{{int:xkcd-com}}
{{int:xkcd.com-url}}
{{int:xkcdstore}}
{{int:xkcdstore-url}}</pre>
| {{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}} {{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}} {{int:xkcd-com}} {{int:xkcd.com-url}} {{int:xkcdstore}} {{int:xkcdstore-url}}
|
* [[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=8
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}
* [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
* [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]]
* [[MediaWiki:Tagline]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd-com]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url]]
|-
| '''CSS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.css]]
|-
| '''JS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.js]]
|-
! colspan="4" | Pages
|-
| '''Edits'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}
|
* [[Special:RecentChanges]] – recent edits
|-
| '''Pages'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
|
* [[Special:AllPages]] – all pages
* [[Special:NewPages]] – recently-created pages
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] – uncategorized pages
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] – pages that link to nothing
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] – pages to which nothing links
** [[:Category:Pages to delete]] – pages marked for deletion
* [[Special:WantedPages]] – linked non-existent pages
* [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – pages protected from creation
* [[Special:ProtectedPages]] – pages protected from editing
* [[Special:PrefixIndex]] – query sub-pages
* [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] – query linked pages
* [[Special:SpecialPages]] – special pages
* [[Special:Watchlist]] – watched pages
* [[Special:Search]] – search
|-
| '''Files'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=6
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}
* [[Special:ListFiles]] – query all files
* [[Special:NewFiles]] – recently-created files
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]] – uncategorized files
* [[Special:UnusedFiles]] – files to which nothing links
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] – linked non-existent files
|-
| '''Categories'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=14
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}
* [[Special:Categories]] – all categories
** [[:Category:Root category]] – root category
** [[:Category:Meta]] – meta category
** [[:Category:explain xkcd]] – site category
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] – uncategorized categories
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] – categories used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] – used non-existent categories
* [[Special:TrackingCategories]] – error categories, etc.
|-
| '''Templates'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=10
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}
* [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]] – uncategorized templates
* [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] – templates used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]] – used non-existent templates
|-
| '''Redirects'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:ListRedirects]] – all redirects
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – redirects to nothing
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – redirects to redirects
|-
! colspan="4" | Users
|-
| '''Users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers]] – query all users
* [[Special:Contributions]] – query user contributions
* [[Special:UserRights]] – query user groups/permissions
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] – group permissions
* [[:Category:Spamfighter]] – users designated as spam fighters
|-
| '''Bureaucrats'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] – query all bureaucrats
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bureaucrat
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
|-
| '''Administrators'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
{{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] – query all administrators
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
|-
| '''Bots'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] – query all bots
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bot
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}
|-
| '''Active users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] – query all active users
|}

= This page =

* [[Special:MyPage]]
** [[User:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Yfmcpxpj
*** [[Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
**** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=User:Yfmcpxpj
**** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
***** {{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

== Subpages ==
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=User:Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Subpages
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki></code>
| {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
|}

=== CSS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.css]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.css]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.css]]

=== JS ===

* [[Special:MyPage/common.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/common.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/cologneblue.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/cologneblue.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/monobook.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/monobook.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/modern.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/modern.js]]
* [[Special:MyPage/vector.js]] – [[User:Yfmcpxpj/vector.js]]

== Statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value
|-
| '''ID'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONID}}
|-
| '''User'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|-
| '''Size (bytes)'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONSIZE}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONSIZE}}
|-
| '''Timestamp'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| '''Year'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
| '''Month''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
|-
| '''Date''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
|}

= This user =
* [[Special:MyTalk]]
** [[User talk:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Yfmcpxpj
* [[Special:Contributions/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions?target=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}
* [[Special:UserRights/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights?user=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}

= Reference =

== Links ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
! colspan="3" | Internal links
|-
| Enclose the page name between double square brackets.
| <code><nowiki>[[1]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1]]
|-
| Provide an optional alternate title after a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[1|title]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
|-
| To prevent category inclusion, prefix with a colon.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics]]
|-
| To hide the namespace, append a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics|]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics|Comics]]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to internal pages
|-
| Bare URL, optionally specifying the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter.
| <pre>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no</pre>
| https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no
|-
| Enclose a protocol-relative or canonical URL between square brackets,
and provide an optional alternate title after a space.
| <pre>[//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function, bare, or between square brackets
with an optional alternate title, with optional query parameters.
| <pre>{{canonicalurl:1}}
{{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}}
[{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| {{canonicalurl:1}} {{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}} [{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to broken internal pages
|-
| colspan="3" | What if internal links are broken to pages ending with question marks or with special characters in the name? (Indeed, ''[[what if?]]'') Instead, the page simply says, "No input file specified." In that case, you can use specific forms of external links to reach the page.
|-
| Specify the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter in a link.
| <code><nowiki>[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function with a query parameter such as <code>redirect=no</code>.
| <code><nowiki>[{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function with a query parameter
such as <code>redirect=no</code> in a protocol-relative URL.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
! colspan="3" | Special links
|-
| Link to a '''MediaWiki''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[mw:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></code>
| [[mw:MediaWiki]]
|-
| Link to a '''template''', formatted in wiki syntax
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tl|tl]]|tl}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
| {{tl|tl}}
{{template|template}}
|-
| Link to a comic's '''explanation'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{explain|1}}
{{explain|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to the '''most recent''' comic's explanation
| <code>{{tl|most recent comic}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{tl|LATESTCOMIC}}]]</code>
| {{most recent comic}}
[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]
|-
| Link to a '''diff'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}</code>
| {{diff|1}} {{diff|1|first diff}} {{diff|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}
|-
| '''Plain link'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:link|link]]<nowiki>|https://example.com|example link}}</nowiki></code>
| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to a comic '''transcript''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
|-
| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
{{what if|1|Relativistic Baseball}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
| <code>{{tl|w}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}</code>
| {{w}} {{w|xkcd}} {{w|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wiktionary''' definition
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}</code>
| {{Wiktionary|malamanteau}} {{Wiktionary|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}
|-
| Link to a '''RationalWiki''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
|-
| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}</code>
| {{tvtropes|AssPull}}
{{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}
|-
| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition (currently broken)
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code>
| Some text.{{Lookup|xkcd}}
|}

== Annotations ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
|-
| Citation needed
| <code>Text needing citation.{{tl|Citation needed}}</code>
| Text needing citation.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| Dubious
| <code>Dubious text.{{tl|Dubious}}</code>
| Dubious text.{{Dubious}}
|-
| NSFW
| <code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].</nowiki>{{tl|NSFW}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].{{</nowiki>[[Template:NSFW|NSFW]]|reason}}</code>
| [https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW}}
[https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW|reason}}
|-
| Note
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:note|note]]|some note}}</code>
| {{note|some note}}
|-
| Quote
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author|source}}</code>
| {{Quote|text}}{{Quote|text|author}}{{Quote|text|author|source}}
|-
| Byline
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}</code>
| {{byline|author 1}} {{byline|author 1|author 2}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}
|-
| Done
| <code>{{tl|done}}</code>
| {{done}}
|-
| Outdent
| <code><nowiki>::::::::::::::::::::indented text</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:outdent|outdent]]<nowiki>|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text</nowiki></code>
|
::::::::::::::::::::indented text
{{outdent|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text
|-
| Reference
| <code><nowiki>Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref></nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>
| Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref>
<references />
|}

== Styles ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Color
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Color|Color]]|blue|some blue text}}</code>
| {{Color|blue|some blue text}}
|-
| Hover text
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Hov|Hov]]|hover text|some text}}</code>
| {{Hov|hover text|some text}}
|-
| No wrap
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nowrap|nowrap]]|long text}}</code>
| {{nowrap|long text}}
|}

== Code ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Result
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code
|}

== Magic words ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Full name of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}</pre>
| {{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}
|-
| Talk namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}
|-
| The current page, including parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}
|-
| The current page, excluding parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Talk page of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Hide the table of contents.
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Force the table of contents in its normal position.
| <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Display the table of contents at the current position.
| <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Current timestamp, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| Current year, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}
|-
| Current month, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Abbreviation, UTC. Name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Abbreviation, server. Name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTMONTH}}
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{LOCALMONTH}}
{{LOCALMONTH1}}
{{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
{{LOCALMONTHNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALMONTH}} {{LOCALMONTH1}} {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}} {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
|-
| Current week, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}
|-
| Current date, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Day of the week number, UTC. Day of the week name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Day of week number, server. Day of week name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTDAY2}}
{{CURRENTDAY}}
{{CURRENTDOW}}
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{LOCALDAY2}}
{{LOCALDAY}}
{{LOCALDOW}}
{{LOCALDAYNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTDAY2}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDOW}} {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{LOCALDAY2}} {{LOCALDAY}} {{LOCALDOW}} {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
|-
| Current time (24-hour), UTC. Current hour, zero-padded, UTC. Server time. Server hour.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIME}}
{{CURRENTHOUR}}
{{LOCALTIME}}
{{LOCALHOUR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIME}} {{CURRENTHOUR}} {{LOCALTIME}} {{LOCALHOUR}}
|}

== Documentation ==

* [[mw:Help:Magic words|Magic words]]
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions|ParserFunctions]]
* [[mw:Manual:Configuration settings|Configuration settings]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Stylesheets|Stylesheets]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript|JavaScript]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Mainpage|Mainpage]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar|Sidebar]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice|Sitenotice]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Pagetitle|Pagetitle]]
* [[mw:Manual:Tagline (Site Subtitle)|Tagline]]
* [[mw:Help:System message|System message]]

= Other =
* [[Browser helpers]]

User:Yfmcpxpj

2020-11-04T03:04:30Z

Yfmcpxpj: /* This site */ Add CSS/JS files.

= This site =
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value !! Special Pages
|-
| '''Name'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SITENAME}}
| rowspan="3" |
* [[Talk:Main Page]]
* [[explain xkcd:Community portal]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/All]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests]]
** [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous]]
|-
| '''Domain'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVERNAME}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVERNAME}}
|-
| '''URL'''
| <code><nowiki>{{SERVER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{SERVER}}
|-
| '''Version'''
| <code><nowiki>{{CURRENTVERSION}}</nowiki></code>
| {{CURRENTVERSION}}
|
* [[Special:Version]] – full version information
|-
| '''Statistics'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:Statistics]] – site statistics
|-
| '''Messages'''
| <pre>{{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}}
{{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}}
{{int:xkcd-com}}
{{int:xkcd.com-url}}
{{int:xkcdstore}}
{{int:xkcdstore-url}}</pre>
| {{MediaWiki:xkcd-com}} {{MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore}} {{MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url}} {{int:xkcd-com}} {{int:xkcd.com-url}} {{int:xkcdstore}} {{int:xkcdstore-url}}
|
* [[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=8
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=8}}
* [[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]
* [[MediaWiki:Pagetitle]]
* [[MediaWiki:Tagline]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd-com]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcd.com-url]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore]]
* [[MediaWiki:xkcdstore-url]]
|-
| '''CSS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.css]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.css]]
|-
| '''JS'''
|
|
|
* [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Cologneblue.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Modern.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-user.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-autoconfirmed.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat.js]]
* [[MediaWiki:Group-bot.js]]
|-
! colspan="4" | Pages
|-
| '''Edits'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFEDITS}}
{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}}
|
* [[Special:RecentChanges]] – recent edits
|-
| '''Pages'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFPAGES}}
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:R}}
|
* [[Special:AllPages]] – all pages
* [[Special:NewPages]] – recently-created pages
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] – uncategorized pages
* [[Special:DeadendPages]] – pages that link to nothing
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] – pages to which nothing links
** [[:Category:Pages to delete]] – pages marked for deletion
* [[Special:WantedPages]] – linked non-existent pages
* [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – pages protected from creation
* [[Special:ProtectedPages]] – pages protected from editing
* [[Special:PrefixIndex]] – query sub-pages
* [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] – query linked pages
* [[Special:SpecialPages]] – special pages
* [[Special:Watchlist]] – watched pages
* [[Special:Search]] – search
|-
| '''Files'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFFILES}}
{{NUMBEROFFILES:R}}
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=6
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=6}}
* [[Special:ListFiles]] – query all files
* [[Special:NewFiles]] – recently-created files
* [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]] – uncategorized files
* [[Special:UnusedFiles]] – files to which nothing links
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] – linked non-existent files
|-
| '''Categories'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=14
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}
* [[Special:Categories]] – all categories
** [[:Category:Root category]] – root category
** [[:Category:Meta]] – meta category
** [[:Category:explain xkcd]] – site category
* [[Special:UncategorizedCategories]] – uncategorized categories
* [[Special:UnusedCategories]] – categories used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedCategories]] – used non-existent categories
* [[Special:TrackingCategories]] – error categories, etc.
|-
| '''Templates'''
|
|
|
* https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages?namespace=10
* <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}</nowiki></code>
** {{canonicalurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10}}
* [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates]] – uncategorized templates
* [[Special:UnusedTemplates]] – templates used by nothing
* [[Special:WantedTemplates]] – used non-existent templates
|-
| '''Redirects'''
|
|
|
* [[Special:ListRedirects]] – all redirects
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – redirects to nothing
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – redirects to redirects
|-
! colspan="4" | Users
|-
| '''Users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers]] – query all users
* [[Special:Contributions]] – query user contributions
* [[Special:UserRights]] – query user groups/permissions
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] – group permissions
* [[:Category:Spamfighter]] – users designated as spam fighters
|-
| '''Bureaucrats'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat]] – query all bureaucrats
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bureaucrat
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bureaucrat}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat}}
|-
| '''Administrators'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
{{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/sysop]] – query all administrators
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/sysop}}
|-
| '''Bots'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}}
{{NUMBERINGROUP:bot|R}}
|
* [[Special:ListUsers/bot]] – query all bots
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers?group=bot
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=bot}}
<code><nowiki>{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}</nowiki></code>
{{Special:ListUsers/bot}}
|-
| '''Active users'''
Unformatted
| <pre>{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}</pre>
| {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS:R}}
|
* [[Special:ActiveUsers]] – query all active users
|}

= This page =

* [[Special:MyPage]]
** [[User:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Yfmcpxpj
*** [[Special:WhatLinksHere/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
**** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=User:Yfmcpxpj
**** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
***** {{canonicalurl:Special:WhatLinksHere|target={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

== Subpages ==
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=User:Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:PrefixIndex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Subpages
|-
| <code><nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki></code>
| {{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
|}

== Statistics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Property !! Code !! Value
|-
| '''ID'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONID}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONID}}
|-
| '''User'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONUSER}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONUSER}}
|-
| '''Size (bytes)'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONSIZE}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONSIZE}}
|-
| '''Timestamp'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| '''Year'''
| <code><nowiki>{{REVISIONYEAR}}</nowiki></code>
| {{REVISIONYEAR}}
|-
| '''Month''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONMONTH}}
{{REVISIONMONTH1}}
|-
| '''Date''', zero-padded
Unpadded
| <pre>{{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}</pre>
| {{REVISIONDAY2}}
{{REVISIONDAY}}
|}

= This user =
* [[Special:MyTalk]]
** [[User talk:Yfmcpxpj]]
*** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Yfmcpxpj
* [[Special:Contributions/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions?target=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:Contributions|target=Yfmcpxpj}}
* [[Special:UserRights/Yfmcpxpj]]
** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:UserRights?user=Yfmcpxpj
** <code><nowiki>{{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}</nowiki></code>
*** {{canonicalurl:Special:UserRights|user=Yfmcpxpj}}

= Reference =

== Links ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
! colspan="3" | Internal links
|-
| Enclose the page name between double square brackets.
| <code><nowiki>[[1]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1]]
|-
| Provide an optional alternate title after a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[1|title]]</nowiki></code>
| [[1|Barrel - Part 1]]
|-
| To prevent category inclusion, prefix with a colon.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics]]
|-
| To hide the namespace, append a pipe.
| <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Comics|]]</nowiki></code>
| [[:Category:Comics|Comics]]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to internal pages
|-
| Bare URL, optionally specifying the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter.
| <pre>https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no</pre>
| https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1?redirect=no https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1&redirect=no
|-
| Enclose a protocol-relative or canonical URL between square brackets,
and provide an optional alternate title after a space.
| <pre>[//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| [//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1 Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function, bare, or between square brackets
with an optional alternate title, with optional query parameters.
| <pre>{{canonicalurl:1}}
{{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}}
[{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</pre>
| {{canonicalurl:1}} {{canonicalurl:1|redirect=no}} [{{canonicalurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function in a protocol-relative URL,
with optional query parameters.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]</nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:1}} Barrel - Part 1]
[{{fullurl:1|redirect=no}} 1]
|-
! colspan="3" | External links to broken internal pages
|-
| colspan="3" | What if internal links are broken to pages ending with question marks or with special characters in the name? (Indeed, ''[[what if?]]'') Instead, the page simply says, "No input file specified." In that case, you can use specific forms of external links to reach the page.
|-
| Specify the page name as the <code>title</code> parameter in a link.
| <code><nowiki>[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if? what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>canonicalurl</code> function with a query parameter such as <code>redirect=no</code>.
| <code><nowiki>[{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{canonicalurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
| Use the <code>fullurl</code> function with a query parameter
such as <code>redirect=no</code> in a protocol-relative URL.
| <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]</nowiki></code>
| [{{fullurl:what if?|redirect=no}} what if?]
|-
! colspan="3" | Special links
|-
| Link to a '''MediaWiki''' page
| <code><nowiki>[[mw:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></code>
| [[mw:MediaWiki]]
|-
| Link to a '''template''', formatted in wiki syntax
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tl|tl]]|tl}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:template|template]]|template}}</code>
| {{tl|tl}}
{{template|template}}
|-
| Link to a comic's '''explanation'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:explain|explain]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{explain|1}}
{{explain|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to the '''most recent''' comic's explanation
| <code>{{tl|most recent comic}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{tl|LATESTCOMIC}}]]</code>
| {{most recent comic}}
[[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]
|-
| Link to a '''diff'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:diff|diff]]|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}</code>
| {{diff|1}} {{diff|1|first diff}} {{diff|1|first diff – getting started|Getting started}}
|-
| '''Plain link'''
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:link|link]]<nowiki>|https://example.com|example link}}</nowiki></code>
| {{link|https://example.com|example link}}
|-
| Link to a '''comic''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:xkcd|xkcd]]|1|Barrel - Part 1}}</code>
| {{xkcd|1}}
{{xkcd|1|Barrel - Part 1}}
|-
| Link to a comic '''transcript''' on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code>{{tl|transcript}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:transcript|transcript]]|1}}</code>
| {{transcript}}
{{transcript|1}}
|-
| Link to a '''''what if?''''' article on {{int:xkcd-com}}
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:what if|what if]]|1|Relativistic Baseball}}</code>
| {{what if|1}}
{{what if|1|Relativistic Baseball}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wikipedia''' article
| <code>{{tl|w}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:w|w]]|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}</code>
| {{w}} {{w|xkcd}} {{w|xkcd|xkcd on Wikipedia}}
|-
| Link to a '''Wiktionary''' definition
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]]|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}</code>
| {{Wiktionary|malamanteau}} {{Wiktionary|malamanteau|malamanteau on Wiktionary}}
|-
| Link to a '''RationalWiki''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:rw|rw]]|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}</code>
| {{rw|xkcd}}
{{rw|xkcd|xkcd on RationalWiki}}
|-
| Link to a '''TV Tropes''' article
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull}}</code>
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:tvtropes|tvtropes]]|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}</code>
| {{tvtropes|AssPull}}
{{tvtropes|AssPull|Ass Pull on TV Tropes}}
|-
| Link to an '''Urban Dictionary''' definition (currently broken)
| <code>{{tl|u}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:u|u]]|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}</code>
| {{u}} {{u|xkcd}} {{u|xkcd|xkcd on Urban Dictionary}}
|-
| Link to a '''Google''' search
| <code><nowiki>Some text.{{</nowiki>[[Template:Lookup|Lookup]]|xkcd}}</code>
| Some text.{{Lookup|xkcd}}
|}

== Annotations ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
|-
| Citation needed
| <code>Text needing citation.{{tl|Citation needed}}</code>
| Text needing citation.{{Citation needed}}
|-
| Dubious
| <code>Dubious text.{{tl|Dubious}}</code>
| Dubious text.{{Dubious}}
|-
| NSFW
| <code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].</nowiki>{{tl|NSFW}}</code>
<code><nowiki>[https://example.com Example link].{{</nowiki>[[Template:NSFW|NSFW]]|reason}}</code>
| [https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW}}
[https://example.com Example link].{{NSFW|reason}}
|-
| Note
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:note|note]]|some note}}</code>
| {{note|some note}}
|-
| Quote
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Quote|Quote]]|text|author|source}}</code>
| {{Quote|text}}{{Quote|text|author}}{{Quote|text|author|source}}
|-
| Byline
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}}</code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:byline|byline]]|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}</code>
| {{byline|author 1}} {{byline|author 1|author 2}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4}} {{byline|author 1|author 2|author 3|author 4|author 5}}
|-
| Done
| <code>{{tl|done}}</code>
| {{done}}
|-
| Outdent
| <code><nowiki>::::::::::::::::::::indented text</nowiki></code> <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:outdent|outdent]]<nowiki>|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text</nowiki></code>
|
::::::::::::::::::::indented text
{{outdent|::::::::::::::::::::}} outdented text
|-
| Reference
| <code><nowiki>Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref></nowiki></code>
<code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>
| Some text.<ref>Some reference.</ref>
<references />
|}

== Styles ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Color
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Color|Color]]|blue|some blue text}}</code>
| {{Color|blue|some blue text}}
|-
| Hover text
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Hov|Hov]]|hover text|some text}}</code>
| {{Hov|hover text|some text}}
|-
| No wrap
| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nowrap|nowrap]]|long text}}</code>
| {{nowrap|long text}}
|}

== Code ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Code !! Result
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code>[https://example.com example markup]</code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <code><nowiki>[https://example.com example markup]</nowiki></code> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <pre>[https://example.com example markup]</pre> code
|-
| <code><nowiki>Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code</nowiki></code>
| Some <source>[https://example.com example markup]</source> code
|}

== Magic words ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description !! Code !! Result
|-
| Full name of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{FULLPAGENAME}}
{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}</pre>
| {{NAMESPACE}}
{{NAMESPACEE}}
|-
| Talk namespace of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKSPACE}}
{{TALKSPACEE}}
|-
| The current page, including parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{PAGENAME}}
{{PAGENAMEE}}
|-
| The current page, excluding parent path.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{SUBPAGENAME}}
{{SUBPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Talk page of the current page.
Encoded for external links.
| <pre>{{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}</pre>
| {{TALKPAGENAME}}
{{TALKPAGENAMEE}}
|-
| Hide the table of contents.
| <code><nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Force the table of contents in its normal position.
| <code><nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Display the table of contents at the current position.
| <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code>
|-
| Current timestamp, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}
{{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}
|-
| Current year, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LOCALYEAR}}
|-
| Current month, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Abbreviation, UTC. Name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Abbreviation, server. Name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTMONTH}}
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{LOCALMONTH}}
{{LOCALMONTH1}}
{{LOCALMONTHABBREV}}
{{LOCALMONTHNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALMONTH}} {{LOCALMONTH1}} {{LOCALMONTHABBREV}} {{LOCALMONTHNAME}}
|-
| Current week, UTC.
Server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{LOCALWEEK}}
|-
| Current date, zero-padded, UTC. Unpadded, UTC. Day of the week number, UTC. Day of the week name, UTC. Zero-padded, server. Unpadded, server. Day of week number, server. Day of week name, server.
| <pre>{{CURRENTDAY2}}
{{CURRENTDAY}}
{{CURRENTDOW}}
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{LOCALDAY2}}
{{LOCALDAY}}
{{LOCALDOW}}
{{LOCALDAYNAME}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTDAY2}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDOW}} {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{LOCALDAY2}} {{LOCALDAY}} {{LOCALDOW}} {{LOCALDAYNAME}}
|-
| Current time (24-hour), UTC. Current hour, zero-padded, UTC. Server time. Server hour.
| <pre>{{CURRENTTIME}}
{{CURRENTHOUR}}
{{LOCALTIME}}
{{LOCALHOUR}}</pre>
| {{CURRENTTIME}} {{CURRENTHOUR}} {{LOCALTIME}} {{LOCALHOUR}}
|}

== Documentation ==

* [[mw:Help:Magic words|Magic words]]
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions|ParserFunctions]]
* [[mw:Manual:Configuration settings|Configuration settings]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Stylesheets|Stylesheets]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript|JavaScript]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Mainpage|Mainpage]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar|Sidebar]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice|Sitenotice]]
* [[mw:Manual:Interface/Pagetitle|Pagetitle]]
* [[mw:Manual:Tagline (Site Subtitle)|Tagline]]
* [[mw:Help:System message|System message]]

= Other =
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