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DollarStoreBa'al: Do we really need that?

2025-10-28T19:03:39Z

Do we really need that?

FaviFake at 09:57, 16 June 2025

2025-06-16T09:57:19Z

FaviFake at 09:50, 16 June 2025

2025-06-16T09:50:20Z

FaviFake at 05:34, 22 April 2025

2025-04-22T05:34:08Z

FaviFake at 22:58, 20 April 2025

2025-04-20T22:58:32Z

FaviFake at 19:42, 20 April 2025

2025-04-20T19:42:01Z

FaviFake at 16:23, 17 March 2025

2025-03-17T16:23:39Z

FaviFake at 16:23, 27 February 2025

2025-02-27T16:23:08Z

DollarStoreBa'al at 04:26, 27 February 2025

2025-02-27T04:26:02Z

DollarStoreBa'al: Attempted to add in the new revelations about Scientists without discarding previous data.

2025-02-27T04:14:34Z

Attempted to add in the new revelations about Scientists without discarding previous data.

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 In February 2025, [[User:FaviFake]], an editor from this wiki, contacted Randall Munroe via email to clarify the exact date that [[36: Scientists]] was swapped in. Munroe [[User:FaviFake|responded the same day]], resolving a long-standing ambiguity surrounding the comic's release date and allowing explain xkcd to assign an official release date to [[36: Scientists]]:
-{{Quote|[...] I had totally forgotten about this! Checking my logs, I believe I swapped it in on April 28th. Thank you for your tireless documentation effort :) [...]|[[Randall Munroe]]|[[User:FaviFake|Source]]}}
+{{Quote|[...] I had totally forgotten about this! Checking my logs, I believe I swapped it in on April 28th. [...]|[[Randall Munroe]]|[[User:FaviFake|Source]]}}
 ===[[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|Comics posted both on LiveJournal and on xkcd.com]]===

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 In February 2025, [[User:FaviFake]], an editor from this wiki, contacted Randall Munroe via email to clarify the exact date that [[36: Scientists]] was swapped in. Munroe [[User:FaviFake|responded the same day]], resolving a long-standing ambiguity surrounding the comic's release date and allowing explain xkcd to assign an official release date to [[36: Scientists]]:
-{{Quote|[...] I had totally forgotten about this! Checking my logs, I believe I swapped it in on April 28th. Thank you for your tireless documentation effort :) [...]|[[Randall Munroe]]|[[User:FaviFake|source]]}}
+{{Quote|[...] I had totally forgotten about this! Checking my logs, I believe I swapped it in on April 28th. Thank you for your tireless documentation effort :) [...]|[[Randall Munroe]]|[[User:FaviFake|Source]]}}
 ===[[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|Comics posted both on LiveJournal and on xkcd.com]]===

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 |[[Randall Munroe]]|''[https://xkcd.com/about/ About xkcd]''}}
-Before [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] started using the [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] website for his comics, he posted them on '''{{w|LiveJournal}}''' using the "[https://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/ xkcd_drawings]" account. The images on the page are now broken, but there are archived versions for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40 first 16 comics], comics [https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20 from 17 to 27], and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/ last 20 comics]. Randall didn't add a [[Title text|title text]] to his comics before [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com], but most of the comics posted on LiveJournal had an original caption beneath the image, and many had comments by LiveJournal users. All the comics transferred to the new site had a title text, which was often along the same lines, but was almost never the same as the caption on LiveJournal.
+Before [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] started using the [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] website for his comics, he posted them on <noinclude>'''</noinclude>{{w|LiveJournal}}<noinclude>'''</noinclude> using the "[https://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/ xkcd_drawings]" account. The images on the page are now broken, but there are archived versions for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40 first 16 comics], comics [https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20 from 17 to 27], and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063441/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/ last 20 comics]. Randall didn't add a [[Title text|title text]] to his comics before [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com], but most of the comics posted on LiveJournal had an original caption beneath the image, and many had comments by LiveJournal users. All the comics transferred to the new site had a title text, which was often along the same lines, but was almost never the same as the caption on LiveJournal.
 The original title, caption, and release number of these early comics can be viewed on their explanation page, so if you want to browse them in the original order, you can [[7: Girl sleeping (Sketch -- 11th grade Spanish class)|start here]] and follow the links at the top of each explanation to go to the next one. To view a list of all the comics in the original order, see [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal|Posted on LiveJournal]].
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 <noinclude>==Transition from LiveJournal to [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]==
 </noinclude>===[[:Category:First day on xkcd.com|First day on xkcd.com]]===
 The new xkcd website opened on January 1, 2006, and the backlog of 41 comics from LiveJournal from [[1: Barrel - Part 1]] to [[44: Love]] was transferred on the same day, but in a completely different order. The only comic that has the same number on both sites is [[3: Island (sketch)]], while all the other comics were uploaded seemingly at random. Also, only eleven of the original comic titles were reused on the new site, and even among the last eleven comics posted on both sites, only six used the same title.
-There were also two new comics released on the first day of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and a third new comic inserted a few months later. [[12: Poisson]] and [[5: Blown apart]] were exclusively published on the first day of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and were never posted on LiveJournal. [[36: Scientists]] was instead initially published as a duplicate of comic [[10: Pi Equals]]. According to Randall an email conversation between him and [[User:FaviFake]], he corrected his mistake on April 28th, 2006, almost four months after the initial publication of the comic. However, this was only uncovered in 2025; before this discovery, all readers knew was that [[36: Scientists]] was replaced sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20060423175703/http://www.xkcd.com/c36.html April 23, 2006] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20060705231511/http://xkcd.com/c36.html July 5, 2006], when the updated version appeared in the Web Archive. He likely found an old drawing that was never meant for publication and used it instead, so it wouldn't appear out of place among the other comics from that period.
+There were also two new comics released on the first day of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and a third new comic inserted a few months later. These three comics were the last comics to be [[:Category:Checkered paper|drawn on checkered paper]]. [[12: Poisson]] and [[5: Blown apart]] were exclusively published on the first day of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and were never posted on LiveJournal. [[36: Scientists]] was instead initially published as a duplicate of comic [[10: Pi Equals]]. According to an [[User:FaviFake|email exchange between Randall Munroe]] and an editor from [[explain xkcd]], he later corrected this duplication on April 28, 2006, almost four months after the site's launch. Prior to this confirmation, readers had only been able to narrow the replacement window to between [https://web.archive.org/web/20060423175703/http://www.xkcd.com/c36.html April 23, 2006] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20060705231511/http://xkcd.com/c36.html July 5, 2006], based on Web Archive captures. The comic's art style and content suggested it may have been an older, unused drawing selected to better match the tone and aesthetic of the surrounding comics.
-These three comics were the last comics to be [[:Category:Checkered paper|drawn on checkered paper]].
+In February 2025, [[User:FaviFake]], an editor from this wiki, contacted Randall Munroe via email to clarify the exact date that [[36: Scientists]] was swapped in. Munroe [[User:FaviFake|responded the same day]], resolving a long-standing ambiguity surrounding the comic's release date and allowing explain xkcd to assign an official release date to [[36: Scientists]]:
 ===[[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|Comics posted both on LiveJournal and on xkcd.com]]===

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 The original title, caption, and release number of these early comics can be viewed on their explanation page, so if you want to browse them in the original order, you can [[7: Girl sleeping (Sketch -- 11th grade Spanish class)|start here]] and follow the links at the top of each explanation to go to the next one. To view a list of all the comics in the original order, see [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal|Posted on LiveJournal]].
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 <noinclude>==[[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal|Comics posted on LiveJournal before xkcd.com]]==
 </noinclude>===[[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|First day on LiveJournal]]===

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 The original title, caption, and release number of these early comics can be viewed on their explanation page, so if you want to browse them in the original order, you can [[7: Girl sleeping (Sketch -- 11th grade Spanish class)|start here]] and follow the links at the top of each explanation to go to the next one. To view a list of all the comics in the original order, see [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal|Posted on LiveJournal]].
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+<span id="Template1"></span><span id="Template2"></span>
 <noinclude>==[[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal|Comics posted on LiveJournal before xkcd.com]]==
 </noinclude>===[[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|First day on LiveJournal]]===

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 The new xkcd website opened on January 1, 2006, and the backlog of 41 comics from LiveJournal from [[1: Barrel - Part 1]] to [[44: Love]] was transferred on the same day, but in a completely different order. The only comic that has the same number on both sites is [[3: Island (sketch)]], while all the other comics were uploaded seemingly at random. Also, only eleven of the original comic titles were reused of the new site, and even among the last eleven comics posted on both sites, only six used the same title.
-There were also two new comics released on the first day of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and a third new comic inserted a few months later. [[12: Poisson]] and [[5: Blown apart]] were exclusively published on the first day of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and were never posted on LiveJournal. [[36: Scientists]] was instead initially published as a duplicate of comic [[10: Pi Equals]]. The issue was noticed by Randall and corrected on April 28th, 2006, according to Randall in an email conversation between him and [[User:FaviFake]]. However, this was only very recently uncovered. Before this discovery, all readers knew was that it corrected it sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20060423175703/http://www.xkcd.com/c36.html April 23, 2006] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20060705231511/http://xkcd.com/c36.html July 5, 2006], when the updated version appeared in the Web Archive. He likely found an old drawing that was never meant for publication and used it instead, so it wouldn't appear out of place among the other comics from that period. These three comics were the last comics to be [[:Category:Checkered paper|drawn on checkered paper]].
+There were also two new comics released on the first day of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and a third new comic inserted a few months later. [[12: Poisson]] and [[5: Blown apart]] were exclusively published on the first day of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] and were never posted on LiveJournal. [[36: Scientists]] was instead initially published as a duplicate of comic [[10: Pi Equals]]. According to Randall an email conversation between him and [[User:FaviFake]], he corrected his mistake on April 28th, 2006, almost four months after the initial publication of the comic. However, this was only uncovered in 2025; before this discovery, all readers knew was that [[36: Scientists]] was replaced sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20060423175703/http://www.xkcd.com/c36.html April 23, 2006] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20060705231511/http://xkcd.com/c36.html July 5, 2006], when the updated version appeared in the Web Archive. He likely found an old drawing that was never meant for publication and used it instead, so it wouldn't appear out of place among the other comics from that period.
 ===[[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|Comics posted both on LiveJournal and on xkcd.com]]===