explain xkcd

explain xkcd was originally a blog, created in July 2009 by Mike and mostly written by Jeff, who posted explanations of xkcd comics, occasionally helped by his friend Berg and by Mike.

The blog gradually developed a significant following, and much interaction happened in the comments, especially for complex comics, where commenters pieced together all parts of Randall's epic comics which would have taken way too much time for Jeff to do alone.

Eventually, several people in the comments starting calling for the blog to be converted to a wiki, allowing its followers to chime in with corrections and even full explanations when Jeff would have less time. In December 2011 Jeff trialled a new project where people could submit explanations for old comics (prior to the start of the blog), which he posted with due credit.

After a while, Jeff decided to make the switch and on 10 July 2012 this wiki was created. The announcement was made on the blog a few days later. The wiki has been gradually collecting explanations for all 3030 xkcd comics and everything xkcd related.

• Note: The explain xkcd logo was created by User:Alek2407.