https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Imperpay&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T15:25:47ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=168558Talk:Main Page2019-01-24T22:25:22Z<p>Imperpay: /* "It's because you're dumb" */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{notice|This page is for discussion of the [[Main Page]] itself. Other issues probably belong at the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]].}}<br />
<br />
As a new user, I think the first page is very important. So I thought why not begin a discussion here what to have on the first page every user visits.--[[User:Relic|Relic]] ([[User talk:Relic|talk]]) 05:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT) <small>Re-signed here - b/c I broke the comment in two when I added the "List of comics" header. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 23:01, 2 August 2012 (EDT)</small><br />
<br />
==List of comics==<br />
I was thinking of having a quick link to the list of comics that is explained. Right know, it took me a while to even see any of them. Eventually I found the "List All Pages" (found it in Special pages) where I could find the comics that have been explained. What do you think?<br />
:A category tag will do that for you automatically. Having a list of comics indexed by its number would be a little different.--[[User:Relic|Relic]] ([[User talk:Relic|talk]]) 05:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::Sounds like a great list - I ''think'' it'd have to be manually maintained until/unless we get someone who knows how to make a bot update it. Categories will be useful, but they only work if someone added the category to the page in the first place. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:21, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::A (somewhat) related question - should [[:Category:Comics]] be sorted alphabetically or by comic number? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:43, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::I think [[:Category:Comics]] should be sorted by comic number. If you are looking for a specific comic, you will use the search field. Is there a way to make that happen? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 08:11, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::They are two different functions. For the former, instead of adding <nowiki>[[Category:Comics]]</nowiki>, add, say, <nowiki>[[Category:Comics|1]]</nowiki>. For the second, we can create redirects. Normally, I'd say just make sure the search term was in the article text, but since numbers are going to be use for other purposes than just comic titles, it may be better to create [[1]] and [[Comic 1]] as redirects to the relevant articles right off the bat. --08:24, 1 August 2012 (EDT) <br />
::::::We could also have a comic-list template on the Main Page, I suppose, or perhaps two - one for number and one for name? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:54, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::::Here's what I was thinking of for that: {{tl|Comics navbox}} Thoughts? ''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup><br />
:(outdent) It's ugly, but a sortable wikitable [[User:SurturZ/sandbox|(click here for example)]] could be used as a checklist to see what has been uploaded and what hasn't. What's the project namespace here, anyway (analogue of "WP:")? --[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 03:04, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:OK, I've found a way to get all the titles of the comics, so I was confident enough to create<br/ ><br/ ><big>[[Explain XKCD:Checklist]]</big> <br/ ><br/>which can be used to fill in the gaps. --[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 03:41, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::I'm liking the checklist! That should do quite nicely as a "tool for editors". (I'm linking to it at the Community Portal). We still need the "template for readers." Did you think {{tl|Comics navbox}} was on the right track or should we do something else for that? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 20:09, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::Better idea - I'm throwing it directly onto the Main Page. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 20:10, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
==Admin list==<br />
You can find a system-accurate list of admins [{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}} here], so that might good to share, along with the manual list. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:13, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:Added to page. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:10, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::That's exactly what I wanted, but couldn't find the auto page for it. I knew it was somewhere. I don't see any reason to keep the link to the manual page. Do you? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 08:11, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::Not unless you want it. I'll remove it. Should I add the similar link for 'crats or is that unnecessary at this point? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:25, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::To be honest, I have no idea what the Burecrats role does. Might be unnecessary now but helpful in the future? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 11:16, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::Bureaucrats can turn other users into administrators (or indeed, other bureaucrats). That privilege isn't available to ordinary administrators. I'd keep it to yourself for the time being. :-) --[[User:Yirba|Yirba]] ([[User talk:Yirba|talk]]) 17:39, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::::You can actually see a technical list of which rights each group confers at [[Special:ListGroupRights]]. As the wiki grows, you might want to spin off a few, such as the ability to grant rollbacker and autopatrolled, to admins as some other wikis have. But for the time being, at least, there's really no reason for the wiki to have more than one 'crat. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 17:07, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== Community portal ==<br />
<br />
I've created the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]] as a tools/help page. If that's not what you want, feel free to change/move/whatever it, but I thought it'd be nice to save this page for discussion of the Main Page and discuss the wiki as a whole/ask for help there. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:36, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== Direct link to latest comic ==<br />
<br />
There should be a direct link to the latest comic at the top of the Main page. A nice thing about going to explainxkcd.com was that the latest comic is right there at the top. For those changing their default link to the wiki, there should be an easy "Latest Comic" link that quickly takes them there. I'm sure some folks actually skip xkcd.com and come directly here instead to read the latest offering from Randall. They shouldn't have to search for it.<br />
[[User:Christopher Foxx|- CFoxx]] ([[User talk:Christopher Foxx|talk]]) 11:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
: Maybe the page [[latest]] should redirect to the most recent comic? Could that be taken care of by some sort of script/template so it doesn't have to be manually updated? Should each explination page also have "next", "previous", "random", "first" and "latest" links, possibly also generated automatically via scripts/templates? Additionally, shouldn't the number page be the canonical one? It seems like [[Internal monologue]] should redirect to [[1089]] rather than the other way around - certainly it would make a bunch of scripting types of things a lot easier. [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:02, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::If you wanted, we could even use wiki-magic to show the title of the page as the Comic name, but the URL as the number - in order to parallel the actual XKCD website. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 17:09, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:: Shouldn't there be a way to programmatically find the comic with the highest number that has a page with content? That would work as long as no one puts future comic pages up. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 20:25, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::It's all sounding like folks are over-complicating something quite easy. All I'm suggesting is a prominent link to http://www.xkcd.com/. No need, I think, to list which number the latest is, or include the next/last/random buttons, etc. [[User:Christopher Foxx|- CFoxx]] ([[User talk:Christopher Foxx|talk]]) 11:41, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::Oh. We've got that, now, in the sidebar - labeled as "XKCD." I do think that having an internal link to the latest (explained) comic would be a great thing, though. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 16:36, 4 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
You can transclude the latest comic on the main page like this: <nowiki>{{:pagename}} e.g. {{:Internal_monologue}} </nowiki>--[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 00:25, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
: I've started with just a manual link to the latest comic. Ideally it will be automatic, but a manual link will work for now as I've had quite a few people ask for it. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 21:09, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
Transclusion of the latest comic is great. Someone with the right permissions should add (for instance on the top-right corner of the grey transclusion area) a link to edit the corresponding wiki page, so that people seeing something they could add would feel invited to do so (wiki style). In my opinion this would be a good way to improve the quality of the user-generated explanations.<br />
Also, all the "XKCD"s in the "New here?" section should be converted to the lowercase "xkcd"...<br />
[[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 14:00, 6 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
:Good points. I've done both. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 15:48, 6 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Call me dumb, but... You've got a link called "prev" that goes to the explaination for the previous comic. Then a link called "comic #42" but that goes to xkcd. And then a smaller, less prominent link called "go to this comic" that doesn't go to the comic but to its explaination. Anyone else think that's a little back-to-front? [[User:Zootle|Zootle]] ([[User talk:Zootle|talk]]) 17:18, 31 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
:OK, you're dumb :-). The standard template for an explanation page includes the header with "Prev", "Comic # (date)", and "Next" links. If we don't have explanation pages for the previous or next comic, we don't show the respective link. I hadn't noticed that the "Comic # (date)" bit was a link to the xkcd site before, but in context it makes sense to me. Including a link to the Explain page for the comic who's explain page you are already looking at doesn't make sense.<br />
:The explanation page for the latest comic is "transcluded" in the main page pretty much as-is, so we get the header, the comic, the explanation, etc. We don't get the discussion, which is visible at the bottom of the Explain page. Because there is never an explanation for a comic that hasn't been released yet, there is never a "Next" link on the main page's transcluded header. So you get "Prev" and "Comic" links. The "Go to this comic" link is added by the main page above the transcluded explain page.<br />
:I can see how the "Go to this comic" link might be poorly worded especially as it's placement seems to be within the explanation it's linking to. [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] ([[User talk:Blaisepascal|talk]]) 18:16, 31 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
::Rather than "Go to this comic" maybe it could be "Go to full explanation" ? Something else? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:38, 5 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::There was [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests#.22Edit_this_explanation.22_link_on_main_page a discussion at one point] about a wittier/more descriptive link - but no one came up with anything. I do like "Go to Full Explanation" better, for what it's worth. --[[User:DanB|DanB]] ([[User talk:DanB|talk]]) 15:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
:::My problem with that suggestion is that it implies that the main page explanation is not full. As of right now, the full explanation is transcluded on the main page. There's nothing more to see by clicking that link (explanation wise) Perhaps "Go to full explanation page" but that doesn't quite sound right to me... [[User:TheHYPO|TheHYPO]] ([[User talk:TheHYPO|talk]]) 15:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::::How about "Go to this Comic Explanation Page"? One nice thing about the specific page rather than the [[Main_Page]] transcoding is that it nicely includes the discussion as well. I have a bookmark to the [[Main_Page]] that I look at every day, but I want to easily read the discussions, not only the explanation. Humm, maybe we could have a page [[most recent comic]] that automagically redirects to the most recent comic? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 12:42, 8 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
:::::I tried to get [[most recent comic]] to redirect to LATESTCOMIC, but can't get the syntax working - it is possible? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::::::Apparently it isn't. I would have tried <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]</nowiki></code> like you did, but since that doesn't work, I'll delete the page for now. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:38, 20 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Discussion of latest comic ==<br />
Perhaps include the discussions of the latest comic here? I almost missed there was a discussion field a few times because I would only read about the latest comic on the main page. [[User:Carewolf|Carewolf]] ([[User talk:Carewolf|talk]]) 14:54, 22 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
This comics's explanation is complete bollocks, I think. Of course it is NOT a "fact that such a room exists". This comics parodies trope often used in cop movies - an elderly cop goes to work for the last time before his retirement, packs things, plans fishing the next day ... only to be called to one more case (possibly with a new, young and brash partner). And despites his efforts not to screw anything and stay clear of danger, he is either mortally wounded or screws big time and is degraded. So much clichè, that if someone says "It's my last day or service", you might be sure one of the two options above happens. See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retirony [[User:edheldil|Edheldil]] 10:17, 26 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I believe this link maybe relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics {{unsigned|Rhudi}}<br />
<br />
I went ahead and filled out the bracket from today's (see edit date) comic: http://m.imgur.com/gallery/WyPkHx2 {{unsigned|Glaucon81}}<br />
<br />
*rise<br />
<br />
Btw, why wouldn't I just enter "ipconfig free" if I didn't want my IP address showing? {{unsigned ip|172.68.65.48}}<br />
<br />
== The comic explanation count is wrong ==<br />
<br />
The adjustment is currently 3, but there are now 6 subcategories and one list making the current correct adjustment 7.<br />
If the wiki was upgraded to version 1.20, a form exists to automatically exclude subcategories.<br />
--[[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 09:56, 8 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Looks like another week of the wiki going down then.<br />
:But seriously, I've been noticing this too. Didn't know what was causing it, but it's going to have to be fixed sometime.[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 10:25, 8 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::The text reads <pre><nowiki>We already have [[:Category:Comics|'''{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-3}}''' comic explanations]]!</nowiki></pre> The -3 is to account for the subcategories and non-explanation pages in the category. There apparently used to be three such pages, and now there are seven. I would fix this myself, but the page is protected. If the wiki where upgraded to version 1.20, the categories could be explicitly excluded, but the [[List of all comics]] would still be in the category. (Note that the -3 actually appears twice.) --[[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 05:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Mediawiki 1.20 fixes this issue, although it'd be nice if this could be fixed in the meantime via the hack reccommended by divad. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 06:40, 16 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Looks like Waldir updated the "Comic Correction Count" to "10" (as of 20 November 2012):<br />
<nowiki> We already have [[:Category:Comics|'''{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-10}}''' comic explanations]]!</big><br />
Note: the -10 in the calculation above is to discount subcategories (there are 7 of them as of 20 November 2012),<br />
non-comic pages (2 as of same date: [[List of all comics]] and [[Exoplanet]])<br />
and the comic 404, which was deliberately not posted. Thus 7 + 2 + 1 = 10<br />
(But there are still {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-10)}} to go. Come and [[List of all comics|add yours]]!)</nowiki><br />
:Could we possibly make this more dynamic by creating a "IGNORE_IN_COUNT" category or something? and then using something like: <nowiki>{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-{{PAGESINCAT:IGNORE_IN_COUNT}}}</nowiki>? Then any additional entries to the "Comics" category (that are 'special' entries) could just have the special category added and no main page editing would be necessary? --[[User:Bpothier|B. P.]] ([[User talk:Bpothier|talk]]) 07:50, 22 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Make Jeff stop apologizing==<br />
The apology for server downtime has been around for a while now. Can we take it down? [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 04:41, 11 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Spambots ==<br />
<br />
I think someone should install [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter AbuseFilter]. --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 10:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Purge ==<br />
<br />
We should regularly purge the server's cache for the main page using http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge to keep the explanation up to date. --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 02:28, 3 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Updating the Rules ==<br />
<br />
I've been having a lovely discussion with someone who apparently thought the "edit anything you want" rule applied to the Talk pages. As we don't have any codified rules for ''here'' and can only point to "well the canonical way this is done on Wikipedia is..." I think that there are a few things we need to put into the list of Rules on the front page, and then have a link to a more in-depth talk about why the rules exist and what-not.<br />
<br />
Specifically, I'm talking about writing "Feel free to edit any page on the wiki to be better. But, treat talk pages like you would blog comments: comments by other people ''cannot be changed by you'', you can only respond to them." as a new rule to be plastered on the front page, as there seems to be an increasing number social neophytes that seem to think that editing words that are attributed as being said by another person is perfectly legitimate and non-controversial.<br />
<br />
Shall we discuss? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 01:25, 15 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:We could add the etiquette rules as an addendum to the signature reminder at the top of the page. Just an extra note below the alert box asking people to not edit other people's comments. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 06:40, 16 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::It really should be right down with the "edited mercilessly" description, because this is an exception to that statement. Shouldn't have two sets of contradictory instructions in different places. When I made my improper edit, I had a semi-conscious moment of doubt about whether changing the other guy's comment was ok, even though this is a wiki (and even though it wasn't really clear to me that this "discussion" box held something totally separate from the page content), but that statement at the bottom put all such doubts to rest. I read it multiple times to be sure. But I did not notice that line at the top about the four tildes until ''much'' later. It's somewhat lost, visually, in the header line, when you're not looking directly at it.[[Special:Contributions/50.0.38.245|50.0.38.245]] 18:32, 18 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::There's discussion to replace that message with a more noticeable alert box. The message at the bottom of the page appears for all pages, including talk pages, so a talk-page specific message there would not entirely fit. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 00:18, 19 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::If that text at the bottom is in fact alterable, it should be written to take every case into account. It's an extremely poor user interface that has instructions appearing on a page stating rules that are the exact opposite of reality. And note that the altert box on the top looks a lot like a banner add, when you don't focus on it and read it. People will tend to habitually filter out anything written there from their perception. Also, it can easily be scrolled off the top of the screen when the discussion starts to get long, and they have a preview displayed.<br />
::::So I think after the "...then do not submit it here.", it should add, "'''Exception''': others' comments in Discussion pages are not to be altered. See full rules at <<link to appropriate wikipedia page>>."[[Special:Contributions/50.0.38.245|50.0.38.245]] 15:46, 28 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Update after changes ==<br />
<br />
The front page explanation hasn't been updated at all day to match changes in the explanation on the comic's page. This is a major problem i think, as it is the front page explanation people visitors will most often read. --[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 20:43, 26 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
: It might be a caching issue. Appending <code>&action=purge</code> to the URL will probably fix it. Can you confirm it looks good to you now? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 00:29, 27 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
::Yep, now it updates instantly! Well done, whatever you did! :) --[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 16:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::I've also added a link underneath the comic box that has the action embedded, so no one has to do any manual URL hacking. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::Just wanted to check in on this - are there issues with automated systems or spammers following this link? I know it can affect performance - caching is important on a busy site! --[[User:Overand|Overand]] ([[User talk:Overand|talk]]) 22:37, 13 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Suggestion: Change "Go to this comic" to "Go to this entry" ==<br />
<br />
Just a small suggestion. For the Main Page, I suggest changing "Go to this comic" to say "Go to this ''entry''" instead to remove any confusion for new and regular viewers. It certainly took me a while to figure how to go to each featured comic's entry from the main page.<br />
<br />
[[Special:Contributions/69.43.114.2|69.43.114.2]] 17:04, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:How about if it reads "Go to this comic explanation"? Would that be less confusing? I only quibble because the explanations aren't really entries, in wiki parlance each page is usually called an article, but that doesn't seem to fit here as we really have explanation pages. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:41, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::<span style="font-weight: bold; color: green;">Agreed.</span> [[User:Ctxppc|Randy Marsh]] ([[User talk:Ctxppc|talk]]) 22:55, 8 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Explain the Unreleased Comic? ==<br />
:I wonder if [[http://i56.tinypic.com/a9ton8.png this comic]] is permitted to be explained, despite the double issue of Randall pulling the comic plus me finding the pulled comic through "xkcd overrated"... [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 18:21, 12 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Comic 1156 ==<br />
<br />
I don't have an account to edit the page directly, so here's an edit someone should make:<br />
It looks like whoever wrote the existing page simply googled 'conditioning' and found the first link that came up.<br />
Please modify the link to point to 'Classical conditioning', not 'Operant conditioning'.<br />
Thanks. {{unsigned ip|124.191.56.91|05:26, 7 January 2013 (UTC)}}<br />
<br />
:Hi. This is the talk page for the main page of the wiki. This page only has a "view" of the actual comic explanation. The actual explanation page is at [[1156: Conditioning]], and I assure you, edit permissions have not been restricted for that page. Someone has already changed the page to link to Classical conditioning, but the original editor came back stating that Operant was correct. If you would like to start a discussion about this [[Talk:1156: Conditioning|on the talk page for this explanation]] that would be much more conducive to getting this matter settled. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:52, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Comic Links ==<br />
<br />
Some of the links seem to be confusing, as they're titled in a weird way. The link/button 'go to this comic', I'd expect would go to the actual comic on XKCD's page. Yet it goes to the comic's wiki page. And clicking on the comic # and date directs you to the XKCD page, yet I really feel that link should go to the wiki page, as it's right at the top center there, and has the date and everything, sort of indicating that it's a wiki page, yet it's not. And the prev and next buttons next to it don't go to the xkcd page, they go to the wiki pages. Which is really messed up, I think. Because of my confusion, every single time I visit here, I clicked on the wrong link, though now I've gotten used to it. I suggest rewording the links as '<i>XKCD</i> Comic # and date' and 'go to this comic<i>'s wiki page</i>'. And possibly switching the links' positions so that the wiki links could be in that navigation bar and the XKCD links could be off to the side. After all, we are a wiki, so putting our wiki links to the comic off to the side and the direct xkcd link in the center seems odd. Anyway, has anyone had the same thoughts and/or agree with me on this?--[[Special:Contributions/69.119.250.251|69.119.250.251]] 18:19, 9 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Unexplained comics ==<br />
<br />
The template that starts each explanation page should be edited to have the next and previous buttons automatically skip over pages that don't exist, rather than simply not being there if comic n+1 or n-1 doesn't exist. Preferably it would append a notice to the next page (like the redirect notices commonly found on mediawiki) telling you how many comics have been skipped. I'm not sure how feasible this would be to script, however. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.185|130.160.145.185]] 23:45, 9 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Percentage of remaining comics calculation is off... ==<br />
<br />
Okay, I hate to be "that pedantic math guy", but... Today the main page reads "We have collaboratively explained 936 xkcd comics, and only 252 (27%) remain." While I agree that 252/936 is roughly 27%, I believe we should really be calculating the percentage as "the number left to explain" divided by "the total number of comics that exist", not divided by "the number we have finished". That is (today), 252/1188=21%. Think about it. If we had completed 594 comics today, with 594 remaining, what should the percentage be? 594/594=100%? That's not right... 594/1188=50%? That's what we really want to say.<br />
<br />
The page is protected, which makes sense. So I'll make my suggestion here.<br />
<br />
Change this: <br />
<br />
<pre><br />
and only {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)}}<br />
({{#expr: ({{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)) / ({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9) * 100 round 0}}%)<br />
remain.<br />
</pre><br />
To this: <br />
<pre><br />
and only {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)}}<br />
({{#expr: ({{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)) / {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}}} * 100 round 0}}%)<br />
remain.<br />
</pre><br />
[[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 15:32, 20 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Done and done. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|purple|David}}<font color=green size=3px>y</font></u><font color=indigo size=4px>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 15:37, 20 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Thanks for the heads-up! However, notice that the #expr: around LATESTCOMIC was unnecessary. I've removed it. [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 11:30, 21 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::Waldir, you have exposed me as a charlatan and a fool! (I just copied, pasted, and tinkered until I made something that worked. I don't actually understand it. No formal training, you see. It's what we used to call "hacking" back in the dawn of the digital era, before the word took on connotations of vandalism, trespassing, and fraud. Have you kids come up with another word for it?) [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 13:59, 22 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::: Joke's on me then, 'cause you sure fooled me – I readily assumed you knew your way around those parser functions. Nice job hacking the code, it was a nearly perfect crime ;) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 03:26, 25 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::I've heard the cool kids call that the "Maker Mentality", usually with a reference to [http://makezine.com/ Make magazine] and [http://makerfaire.com/ Maker Faire]. But I think there's also a movement to resurrect the original meaning of hacker. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 04:21, 25 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
==sidebar ads?==<br />
''Moved to [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals]] –– [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 08:06, 4 May 2013 (UTC)''<br />
<br />
== Expression error on Main Page ==<br />
<br />
Please use <code><nowiki>{{PAGESINCAT:...|R}}</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>{{PAGESINCAT:...}}</nowiki></code> to correct these errors :) --[[Special:Contributions/110.168.83.62|110.168.83.62]] 10:55, 8 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Dun diddly done. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:21, 8 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Compile a list of non-technical comics to non-technical readers? ==<br />
<br />
I'm a long-time reader and fan of >< |< C |}, but my normal approach is useless when I introduce this provocative comic series to my less technical friends. They stay at the apparent level of many comics. They don't bother reading the explanations, but they would say, "it's hard to make sense". Imagine an average non-technical (and non-arts) major guy/girl, can we compile a list of state-of-the-art but less-technical, easy-to-comprehend but "ah ha!!" strips that is suitable for them? --[[User:FrenzY|W shll nvr flly xpln xkcd!]] ([[User talk:FrenzY|talk]]) 12:39, 18 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Oh my god that signature.<br />
:Gaah, derailment. Uh, pretty much anything that isn't tagged with the physics or math categories are easy enough to understand for the average English speaker, so just check the categories at the bottom of the page for that. Also, avoid comics with the incomplete tag, and that oughta be fine. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:41, 18 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Quit building? ==<br />
''This post was moved to [[Talk:1214: Geoguessr]].''<br />
<br />
:Hello, this is the talk page for the content of the front page of the wiki, not for discussion of the most recent comic, that happens [[Talk:1214: Geoguessr|here]]. I've moved your post over there for you. Cheers, and welcome to explain xkcd! [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:09, 22 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== List of incomplete comics ==<br />
We need a link to the "Incomplete articles" at the main page below the "Missing link". Most pages are created but many are incomplete.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:06, 7 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Header message ==<br />
<br />
'''Please don't take this seriously unless you actually think it's a good idea:'''<br />
<br />
I think the header should be changed from "explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb." to "explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb... or still have some hope that comic [[1190]] will end." or something similar. [[User:Schiffy|<font color="000999">Schiffy</font>]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy|<font color="FF6600">Speak to me</font>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|<font color="FF0000">What I've done</font>]]) 14:53, 9 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::Nope! This page is trying to explain more than 1222 comics, not only [[1190: Time]]. The header just states the truth.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:49, 9 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I'd vote for a change. People have started coming over to discuss the comic even when they've 'gotten' it. That, and the fact that this is one step ahead of Googling the references yourself. So.. maybe, "it's because you're dumb..and lazy."[[Special:Contributions/220.224.246.97|220.224.246.97]] 02:26, 31 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I honestly don't think it either. This is the most comprehensive comic-by-comic Wiki. People don't come here because they're dumb ''or'' lazy. That's like saying I'm dumb for reading a review of an episode after I've watched it - I'm interested in seeing what other people up with or caught that I didn't. It denigrates the idea of aggregating information, which is a very un-XKCD idea.<br />
<br />
As a regular reader of explainxkcd (who was to lazy to cotribute anything until now), I'd like to support the proposed edit. (... and lazy) It really fits to the tone of our favourite waste of otherwise productive time (which is xkcd for myself). Best wishes from Heidelberg, Germany. --[[Special:Contributions/147.142.13.86|147.142.13.86]] 14:38, 10 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
A friend that happens to be blind hates this site because of the "It's cause you're dumb" tagline. If he wants a transcript of the comic on xkcd, his option is to come here and have his screen reader program telling him that he is dumb every single time.<br />
<br />
How about, "explain xkcd: because sometimes we all need a little help."? -- [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.65|173.245.54.65]] 02:07, 8 February 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Oh, hadn't thought about that. There's been recurring complaints about this over the years, though the tagline's been around since before we were a wiki. I'll write something up and put this to a vote. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:00, 8 February 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== A point of confusion ==<br />
<br />
Why is 'Apatosaurus' a category but 'Internet Argument' no longer a category? [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 13:53, 20 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Cuz people hit the random button, see an Apatosaurus feature in three comics and figure it must be a recurring theme. Same as the internet argument thing. Will get round to a category purge after we've cleared out all the incomplete tags. I think there's one for ferrets hidden away somewhere in the dark recesses of our catalog of categories. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:45, 20 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
::On the subject, can I suggest a "Barred from Conferences" category, or similar? That's definitely a recurring theme (for a long, long time), and thus should be justified enough. I'd be happy to add various qualifying articles as I scroll through again, if I can, but first I'll leave it up to someone else to solidify the actual name. (In case it turns out not to be just conferences, for example.) [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 16:27, 22 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Incomplete comics statement ==<br />
<br />
I suggest the minor change: "We have an explanation for all x xkcd comics, and only y (y/x %) are '''marked as''' incomplete." –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 08:07, 21 June 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== 1262 is out ==<br />
<br />
So what are you waiting for? [[Special:Contributions/75.60.27.102|75.60.27.102]] 06:25, 9 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
:<nowiki>(diff | hist) . . N 1262: Unquote; 06:23, 9 September 2013 (UTC) . . (+322) . . Davidy22 (Talk | contribs | block) (Created page with "{{comic | number = 1262 | date = September 9, 2013 | title = Unquote | image = unquote.png | titletext = I guess it's a saying from the Old Country. }} ==Expl...")</nowiki><br />
:Examine the time stamps. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 06:30, 9 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Adverts ==<br />
<br />
I am not going to disable my adblock, I hate ads. If you accept bitcoin I can make a donation though. [[Special:Contributions/184.66.160.91|184.66.160.91]] 05:24, 27 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Our ads are always easy-to-load images as opposed to flash ads, they're always pointing to some valuable product of some form and we've looked at and approved all of them. They also occupy space that would otherwise have been empty, as our one ad is bound strictly to the sidebar. We used to have a paypal donation button, but it was pitifully tended to and a much less reliable source of income than ads. Ads are the only reliable business model for small sites like this one; unless our readers suddenly become willing to pay all our server costs for us, we can't feasibly afford a better hosting plan without ads. We legally aren't allowed to open a merch store, because that infringes on Randall's shop, and we haven't had a single generous benefactor yet. If you want to stop seeing our server error messages, loosening up adblock for us and contributing to our impressions count will help us massively. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 06:00, 27 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I don't care about your server message, I wanted to make a donation. Sooo, you don't want any bitcoins? [[Special:Contributions/37.221.161.235|37.221.161.235]] 07:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
:This took a bit of digging. We're fine with bitcoin donations, it's just that at the rate donations came in, they were just not enough to pay for anything. [https://coinbase.com/checkouts/b19f921822ac962807a8f72d51509e59] '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 20:34, 28 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Donation made! [[Special:Contributions/184.66.160.91|184.66.160.91]] 23:23, 30 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Thanks! '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 02:27, 1 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Am I the only one that feels it is "wrong" that the explainxkcd site has ads and the real xkcd doesn't have any? It feels like someone is profiting off of Randall's work. Does he officially endorse this website? Do any proceeds help go to support his ongoing publication of an awesome comic? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.19|173.245.54.19]] 16:01, 7 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:An admin will be able to give you more detail than me, but explainxkcd has a significant number of visitors (and thus hosting costs), and no way to generate income other than donations and ads. In contrast, Randall makes money from his comics by way of books and merchandise (and possibly public speaking), some of which will pay for his hosting. He could choose to have ads on his site to generate additional income, its his choice not to. I have no knowledge of the finances of explainxkcd, however I doubt there is much/any surplus ad revenue being pocketed by the owners/admin. As far as the site being officially endorsed, not as far as I'm aware, no. <br />
:Also, for more discussion on adverts/income, see [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Sidebar_ads here].--[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 16:21, 7 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== /wiki is returning a 403 ==<br />
<br />
Hello, <br/><br />
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/ is returning a 403 now. In my eyes you should redirect it to the main-page instead :-). --[[User:DaB.|DaB.]] ([[User talk:DaB.|talk]]) 12:41, 8 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:We have a new, hopefully better, server. The problem is already reported to [[User_talk:Jeff#Forbidden]] --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 14:22, 8 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Explain Explain XKCD / Explain^2 XKCD ==<br />
<br />
This particular comic explanation requires explanation. Way too many potential cross references with each conjecture requiring its own explanation page. Dial it back a little. {{unsigned ip|108.162.245.11}}<br />
:Uh, sorry, could you clarify that a little? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:23, 19 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::He is talking about the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/ http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/] issue. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:32, 19 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::Well if it's that, that's an intentional permissions setting on a URL that no-one is feasibly going to type. Unless you can come up with a better use for that URL, with a reason? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 08:40, 20 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
::::A symlink to "index.php" at the root folder would solve the problem.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 09:26, 20 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::::I cannot believe how many weeks that took to fix. Amazing. No one was going to type it, but everyone was going to get redirected to it from the home page! [[Special:Contributions/108.162.222.227|108.162.222.227]] 11:37, 20 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
The problem is still not solved. [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/ http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/] gives still a 403 error because "index.php" is not included in the http server configuration as a default index page. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:07, 20 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:: I've fixed this. Sorry about the delay. Was super busy! --[[User:Jeff|<b><font color="orange">Jeff</font></b>]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 16:02, 21 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::Thanks Jeff, it's working. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:20, 21 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Webmaster: Obtrusive video ad on your site ==<br />
<br />
In the ad section I saw a box sticking out and blocking out the explanation. This was therefore a very obtrusive botched video ad. Please remove this ad from your site. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.188|199.27.128.188]] 22:29, 6 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
EDIT: It's now sticking out and preventing me from clicking on the "Save page" button. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.188|199.27.128.188]] 22:29, 6 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
:We only accept GIFs for moving ads. Ads should also be contained within the sidebar as they're techonogically restricted to standard-sized PNGs and GIFs, so an extruding ad would be a CSS error on the site end/browser error. In addition, we run ads from lots of advertisers, and "this ad" is not specific enough to tell us which ad you want us to remove. Could you provide a screenshot/link/more information? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 22:54, 6 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Adding an arcs list page ==<br />
<br />
I think there should be a page listing all webcomics arcs so far (the red spiders, the race, etc.)[[Special:Contributions/188.114.102.134|188.114.102.134]] 12:47, 2 October 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:This already exists, see [[:Category:Comic series]]. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 05:39, 10 April 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: link ==<br />
<br />
This has been bothering me for a while now. Why does the link in the info box for the main page link to editing the main page? It needs to link to the editing of the page which the comic's explanation is on. When I would like to edit the latest XKCD explanation, I click that thinking I am going to edit the explanation, but instead I am led to editing the main page. [[User:Auraxangelic|Auraxangelic]] ([[User talk:Auraxangelic|talk]]) 15:19, 24 October 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Ooooooh, nice catch. I've actually never noticed that before, and it's definitely not intentional. It happens because the text of the explanation page is folded into the main page before mediawiki parses links and syntax, and the "Edit this page" button links to the page that the link is on. I have an idea for how to fix it though, so I'll get on that. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 01:49, 25 October 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== #1454 - bad description ==<br />
<br />
"Curly-hair states longingly..." She comes across as disappointed (or even heartbroken), not "longing", which suggests sounding somewhat positive and energetic, rather than deflated. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.88|141.101.99.88]] 22:29, 2 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Cueball/Rob merge==<br />
<br />
It seems to me from a general reading of the comics that Randall has always intended for the character we here call "Cueball" to have the name "Rob". Much as "Cutie" was renamed "Megan" when we learned her name, and now she is identified as "Megan" even in comics where her name is not explicitly mentioned, I think we should consider merging the "Cueball" and "Rob" articles. I know there's a lot of inertia here, but it seems to me that this is Randall's intention for the character's name. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 13:38, 10 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
: Alternatively, we should un-merge [[Megan]] and [[Cutie]] for consistency. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 14:50, 10 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
: I'm pretty sure this is an augmentation of the author's internal characters, including the one he has developed involuntarily as to the nature of his love. His memory of his love is not his love, yet it is what he has to love. Randall seems the type to delve into this, and thus I am in support of keeping the character names as they stand. /eof [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.185|173.245.56.185]] 05:43, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Kerbal Space Program ==<br />
<br />
I'm a schizophrenic who's been playing Kerbal Space Program for about five days with no sleep, and I'm pretty sure this is a reference to [https://www.google.com/search?q=xkcd+kerbal+space+program&oq=xkcd+kerbal+space+program&aqs=chrome..69i57.10851j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8 comic 1365] :D [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.185|173.245.56.185]] 05:39, 25 March 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== 1509 is missing ==<br />
<br />
When will it be added? By bot, I presume.--[[User:17jiangz1|17jiangz1]] ([[User talk:17jiangz1|talk]]) 04:51, 8 April 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Broken Date Box on comics ==<br />
<br />
The "Comic #1511 (April 13, 2015)" textbox that appears on top of each comic breaks if you shrink the screen. I think the space after the comma needs to be replaced with a non breaking space.{{unsigned ip|108.162.238.144}}<br />
<br />
:Is it fixed now? '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 20:59, 13 April 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::It looks like it. I had pointed it out once before and it was fixed. I guess somebody reverted that change or something... --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.202|173.245.56.202]] 13:42, 15 April 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== 1515? ==<br />
<br />
Is it correct that we have 1515 comics, as of April 15, 2015? --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.122|173.245.48.122]] 05:20, 15 April 2015 (UTC)<br />
:It's not, but some people insist on making comic pages for things that aren't comics. I'll fix that. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 06:27, 15 April 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== 972 is broken ==<br />
<br />
Look, I'm not going to make an account here or anything, but I just wanted to point out that trying to access the page for comic #972 leads to a database error, and maybe someone should check on that. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.102|173.245.48.102]] 07:45, 14 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
Actually a lot of other pages lead to that same error as well... Even the 'Technical Diskussions' sub-page is broken. Seems to my, like some swap-spac needs cleaning up? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.230.83|108.162.230.83]] 10:32, 14 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Yep. It's a symptom of another problem, but the errors should be cleared up now. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 16:31, 14 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
::No dice. [[997]] is still broken. --[[Special:Contributions/198.41.235.119|198.41.235.119]] 00:27, 3 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Looks like they're working now. 21:01, 2016-11-27 {{unsigned ip|141.101.98.163}}<br />
<br />
== #1567 ==<br />
<br />
I think the current explanation is missing the connection, and the parody of, many "As Seen On TV" commercials selling kitchen products. Many of these commercials show people trying to use common kitchen equipment (pots, pans, can openers, etc) in a way that no normally functioning human would do it (for example, one has a lady draining the liquid from a pot of food into a sink in an extremely awkward manner — one that no normal person who has ever seen a kitchen would do — but then the lid flies one way, food goes another, there's a huge mess, etc; another commercial has someone trying to open a can of food using a can opener '''backwards''', with the woman looking extremely confused looking on how the can opener is supposed to be used or attached to the can [if you told someone act like they are a clueless monkey trying to use a can opener for the first time, that's basically what the commercial had the woman doing — no joke]). These commercials often begin with phrases such as "If you are like me" or "If you are like most home makers" or some other closely related "If you are like..." phrase (thus this comic is directly tieing itself to these commercials using this catch phrase). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.11|108.162.220.11]] 07:50, 21 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
:: Other opening catch phrases for these commercials include the "Tired of [fill-in made-up frustration]" and the "Do you [fill-in made-up frustration]" kind. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.11|108.162.220.11]] 08:09, 21 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== "I used Google news BEFORE it was clickbait" ==<br />
<br />
Go to a handful of older pages on this wiki, and it won't be long before you see this phrase in the comments - [[941: Depth Perception]], for instance has two of them. Does anyone know why this happens? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.116|108.162.221.116]] 10:59, 23 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
:That's the signature of a person who used to post here. If you click through, it actually goes to a userpage. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 14:25, 23 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== URL ==<br />
<br />
I notice that whenever you add "explain" to an xkcd url, it takes you here! neat! [[Special:Contributions/198.41.235.233|198.41.235.233]] 23:13, 28 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Someone noticed! Finally! '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:45, 29 August 2015 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Should we really be using CC-BY-SA? ==<br />
<br />
Don't get me wrong, CC-BY-SA is my favorite creative commons license. The problem is, are we really allowed? The reason I'm worried is that I'm not sure if what we are doing really counts as "fair use" with respect to XKCD. It would probably be better to do CC-NC-BY-SA, to respect XKCD, or at least put a note that CC-BY-SA only covers the wiki portion (since it's probably too late to do CC-BY-SA anyway).<br />
[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.37|173.245.54.37]] 23:38, 27 January 2016 (UTC)<br />
:This is a tough one. Mediawiki sites generally use CC-BY-SA, even if the content they're based off is copyrighted (Wikia sites for various topics do this). The license only does apply to content ''created'' here. What should probably be done, if it isn't already, is some specification on pages in the <code>File:</code> namespace indicating that they are owned by someone other than the owners of this site. [[User:Schiffy|<font color="000999">Schiffy</font>]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy|<font color="FF6600">Speak to me</font>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|<font color="FF0000">What I've done</font>]]) 19:37, 7 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== #1663: Garden not yet added? ==<br />
<br />
For me it's 4:30 AM, 4/4/16 - I have a sleep schedule just like [https://xkcd.com/361/], so I've been first on quite a few xkcd explanations immediately. when they came out.<br />
I notice that usually, immediately once a new xkcd comic is released, a bot generates a corresponding bare-bones page on this wiki. However, this new comic "1663: Garden" doesn't yet have an automatically-generated page. Maybe it's because of the strange user-session hash key that appears in the URL bar when the "comic" is interacted with? Maybe this sort of interactive thing messes with the bot?<br />
Am I just being impatient? Do I have to wait a few minutes? (I'm going to bed, and this probably won't be seen until tomorrow, but I am at least interested in knowing how the bot system works.) [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.21|173.245.54.21]] 09:01, 4 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Skins broken ==<br />
<br />
It seems both the Classic and Monobook skins are very very broken. Only Vector seems to be laid out normally. [[User:Schiffy|<font color="000999">Schiffy</font>]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy|<font color="FF6600">Speak to me</font>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|<font color="FF0000">What I've done</font>]]) 19:39, 7 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
: Yes, for me too. Let me see what can be done. [[User:Jeff|<b><font color="orange">Jeff</font></b>]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 20:10, 12 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
::All calls to /load.php seem to fail, which results in the broken look. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.86.167|162.158.86.167]] 11:02, 14 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
:::Oh wow, I thought I was the only one. [[User:SuperSupermario24|<span style="color: #c21aff;">Just some random derp</span>]] 15:57, 8 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
::::Should be fixed now. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 18:59, 17 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== #1682: Not sure about the reference for Russian meaning for Bun ==<br />
''Also interesting to note is that in several Slavic languages (including Russian, Czech and Polish), the word for Rabbit literally means Little King''<br />
<br />
I'm a native Russian speaker, and i've never heard of Rabbit being used for ''Little King''... <br />
<br />
* Rabbit: ''krolik'' (кролик)<br />
* Little King: ''korolyok'' (королёк)<br />
<br />
Not sure if this above statement is correct for Russian language. {{unsigned ip|162.158.255.28}}<br />
:This is the main page. You probably want to put this in [[Talk:1682: Bun]]'''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 16:36, 20 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Random Button ==<br />
The actual xkcd site has one and adding one would make it closer to the actual site and make discovering random comics and their explanations easier. It could go next to the comic # button.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.69|173.245.52.69]] 01:03, 5 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
:There is a random page button on the left. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 02:36, 5 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
::Oh. Didn't see that. Sorry.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.69|173.245.52.69]] 20:16, 5 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== XKCD Alignment Chart ==<br />
<br />
A while back, I was searching for an XKCD alignment chart, with no success, so I made one. It is not perfect, so I'm wondering what other opinions on the alignment of the characters are.<br />
<br />
Lawful Good- Beret<br />
<br />
Neutral Good- Ponytail<br />
<br />
Chaotic Good- Mrs. Roberts<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Lawful Neutral-Cueball<br />
<br />
Neutral Neutral- Megan<br />
<br />
Chaotic Neutral- White hat<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Lawful Evil- Hairy<br />
<br />
Neutral Evil- Danish<br />
<br />
Chaotic Evil- Black Hat<br />
<br />
--[[User:Fallencrow305|Fallencrow305]] ([[User talk:Fallencrow305|talk]]) 22:10, 28 July 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:What about Help I'm trapped in a drivers license factory Elaine Roberts? --[[User:JayRulesXKCD|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|talk]]) 15:48, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
::Or Hairbun? Or Science Girl? Here are my predictions: Elaine - Chaotic Good, Hairbun - Lawful Good, Science Girl - Lawful Neutral --[[User:JayRulesXKCD|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|talk]]) 16:00, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== 1713 cc also means carbon copy. So 50 carbon copies of either of those words could be called for. ==<br />
<br />
1713 cc also means carbon copy. So 50 carbon copies of either of those words could be called for. {{unsigned ip|108.162.215.146}}<br />
:Sorry, but [[User:108.162.215.146|108.162.215.146]], you need to remember to sign your work. --[[User:JayRulesXKCD|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|talk]]) 11:50, 26 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chatroom Idea... What do you guys think? ==<br />
I have an idea. What if there was a discussion board for the wiki? (And no, I don't mean boards like this or the "comment section" of comic explanations. I mean a live chatroom plugin of sorts. We could add it to the website and enable it so we can talk to each other in real-time and make live edits with each other. This way, we can also let each other know of edits we've made, make new pages altogether, or just talk. What do you guys think? -- [[User:JayRulesXKCD|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|talk]]) 9:10, 13 September 2016<br />
:The [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges recent changes] log already notifies all users on the site of new pages and edits. User talk pages and the community portals exist for coordination. Also, avoid creating new comment topics in the middle of a talk page in the future, comments are supposed to follow a chronological order. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 15:39, 13 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
::Sorry. --[[User:JayRulesXKCD|JayRulesXKCD]] ([[User talk:JayRulesXKCD|talk]]) 13:59, 26 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Copying versus embedding ==<br />
<br />
Hi, I'm new here and I'm trying not to be an asshole. However, I just noticed that this site uses its own archive of copied xkcd comics, rather than using the image URL provided for hotlinking and embedding. I can understand this website will want to have its own archive in case xkcd.org ever goes offline, but until then, why not just embed the images instead of copying?<br />
<br />
The reason I'm asking: I just realised I hardly ever go to xkcd.org anymore ever since my browser put explainxkcd above xkcd.org. Explanations get updated, so sometimes I check back later, which rarely happens with the comics. It makes perfect sense. But if more people experience this issue, xkcd.org is getting fewer unique visitors because of it, and this could be fixed by fetching the image directly from there, while still making and storing a copy in case it is needed in the future. Thoughts, anyone? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.33|141.101.104.33]] 17:08, 18 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
:So, we can't do this for every comic, like [[1190]] or other april fools comics. Also, xkcd's revenue comes from merchandise sales, not ad revenue, so I believe it's not actually negatively impacting them that we're serving the images ourselves rather than making the main site serve them for us. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:39, 19 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Embedding images is generally known as "stealing bandwidth", since it uses resources of the original site's server (may be limited) without bringing it any actual visitors (they won't see anything else of the website, like announcements, shop, other sections, ...). Also, depending on how unique visitors are counted, "visitors" through embedding might be invisible (client's side scripts won't be loaded). So no image embedding without the original site's owner express permission. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.88.106|141.101.88.106]] 12:51, 7 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Other Languages ==<br />
Are there translations of pages anywhere. It has been mentioned that they are on subdomains of this site, or a sub-page, as Main_Page/es for spanish. I can't seem to find them there. [[User:The Muffin Man|The Muffin Man]] ([[User talk:The Muffin Man|talk]]) 14:48, 7 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
:It's a work in progress, long delayed but I really do want to get to it eventually. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 18:58, 7 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Why are there male/female symbols in some of the entries? ==<br />
<br />
Those symbols are not in the comic, but they're in the table. I think a vandal put them there. Can someone remove them from the Lavaball, Bladeball, Eggspotting, Merfishing, Consequence Golf and Heck Escape? (now don't act like someone who criticizes "politically correct leftist "libt++d" SJW snowflakes" just because I said "heck" or censored the derogatory term for "liberal" or not even trying to say these uncensored) -- [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.106|108.162.221.106]] 12:36, 25 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== How quaint ==<br />
<br />
From the Main Page:<br />
<br />
Explain xkcd: '''It's 'cause you're dumb.'''<br />
<br />
<br />
From the Rules section:<br />
<br />
'''Don't be a jerk. '''<br />
<br />
<br />
(Emphasis mine)<br />
<br />
<br />
How very ,very quaint. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.126.100|162.158.126.100]] 21:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== HTTPS? ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
With the general trend towards HTTPS being favoured over HTTP for security and speed reasons, would it be possible to force the use of HTTPS and secure the mixed content please?<br />
<br />
Please see [https://www.whynopadlock.com/results/7e707bfd-cd71-4b00-b95e-be226fb10fb6 Why no Padlock?] for more details.<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.179.202|162.158.179.202]] 10:32, 13 January 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Browsing using HTTPS seems to just work. There's even a signed certificate.<br />
:https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1946<br />
<br />
:I really don't get why people are so convinced that browsing using HTTPS is so much more "secure". You even seem to claim that it's faster?<br />
:If you love it so much, install a browser extension like https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere.<br />
<br />
:With the exception of the login / register page, I really don't see the point for enforcing this for the whole site. I am no admin though.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/172.69.54.93|172.69.54.93]] 22:30, 25 January 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
We are already in 2018 and this website still does not even redirect automatically to HTTPS ([https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170536-How-do-I-redirect-all-visitors-to-HTTPS-SSL- you can do it so easily with Couldflare...]) nor enforce HTTPS with {{w|HSTS}}... I don't know, just check [https://scotthelme.co.uk/hardening-your-http-response-headers/#strict-transport-security on Scott Helme's site] why it's important. Having to rely on the user installing an extension for doing the sysadmin work is a bad joke, really. And it does not fix some issues with mixed content of course. With Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare providing certificates for free and the plethora of tutorials online on securing a website (not limited to HTTPS), there is no excuse to not do it. -- [[User:guest|guest]] ([[User talk:guest|talk]]) 11:22, 31 January 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== "It's because you're dumb" ==<br />
I see that there was some talk about this a while ago, in which people seemed to agree that the "It's because you're dumb" tagline is unnecessarily mean and should be changed... and yet, it's still here. I'd like to add some more fuel to the fire with several reasons why I really hate this tagline:<br />
<br />
* The tagline doesn't fit the tone of XKCD. Randall celebrates knowledge. Even Black Hat wouldn't just outright say "You're dumb", because he's a classhole who can insult way better than that.<br />
* Many of the people who contribute to this wiki are very smart. They're not dumb.<br />
* They're also quite amicable from what I've seen. If they wouldn't insult someone, why is the website doing so?<br />
* Not knowing something is not the same as being dumb. Even the smartest people don't know everything.<br />
* Having a desire to learn is smart, not dumb.<br />
* The tagline's logic is flawed. Just because you learn a new thing, doesn't mean you were dumb to begin with.<br />
<br />
Anyone with me on this?<br />
<br />
[[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 14:07, 20 February 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
: The first line of the "Rules" section is "Don't be a jerk" at the time of writing. The first thing this wobsite does is to break that rule. I'm not sure what else is to be said here. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.126.76|162.158.126.76]] 16:55, 20 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:I always thought that was weird too. But it's still there... I'll tell the admins about it, and hopefully it will be changed. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 13:18, 18 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Explanation: ''This'' is a joke... Missing the punchline? --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 15:15, 18 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Personally, I'm fine with the current tagline. I consider it a joke and don't feel offended. However, if there is consensus a) that and b) to what it should be changed, I'm ok with changing it. --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]] ([[User talk:SlashMe|talk]]) 16:18, 18 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I'm wondering, would it be possible to temporarily (a week or so?) stop new ads from appearing in the sidebar and replace it with a poll concerning this issue? Right now it's just showing what appeared in the banners in [[1965: Background Apps]], and not a real ad. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.58.81|162.158.58.81]] 10:12, 19 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
:The advertisement is used to pay the fees needed to run this site. Right now this wiki get's an upgrade but when it's done this discussion will get a proper placement here. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 13:37, 21 April 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
The first time I encountered this tagline I thought it was pretty funny. Satire can be hard to detect online but this one seems clear enough. --[[User:DKMell|DKMell]] ([[User talk:DKMell|talk]]) 20:42, 20 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
:What is it satirizing? I'm serious; I genuinely don't know. It could well be that I just don't get the joke. [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 13:39, 10 January 2019 (UTC)<br />
<br />
At first I liked the joke, but now it's either annoying or I ignore it. Personally I don't feel it needs to be changed, as it's in the satirical spirit of xkcd, but I wouldn't care too much. [[User:Nyx goddess|Nyx goddess]] ([[User talk:Nyx goddess|talk]]) 22:56, 5 December 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
It's satire, if it gets removed that's exactly the kind of overzealous political correctness that MAGA chuds are talking about when they accuse us of being snowflakes, howabout let's not give them ammo. - 02:03, 22 December 2018 (UTC)<br />
:As above: what it is satirizing? Also, for my part, it's not about political correctness at all; it's that the tagline doesn't match my personal positive image of XKCD, nor of this wiki, and it just feels unfitting to me, for all the reasons that I laid out. [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 13:39, 10 January 2019 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I'm in favor of a change. Let's drop the "dumb". Or at least modify it. I propose a "strikethrough" of dumb, then add any one of a list of possible words: confused, ignorant, curious, wondering, befuddled... (Oooh, could it randomly change each time the page is loaded? Code wizards, advance!) [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 22:25, 24 January 2019 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Editor FAQ ==<br />
Eventually we may need that banner at the top for something else, like the incomplete explanation spotlight, or when the wiki was being upgraded, so I think we should add the Editor FAQ in the New Here? section. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 11:21, 2 June 2018 (UTC)<br />
:It's a first draft and I'm just waiting to be convinced that it's NOT incomplete. And be sure I haven't written it without a plan how to present it on the proper places. Furthermore this "Sitenotice" on the top is only "dissmissable" for valid users, every visitor not logged in does see this always. Thanks for your participation and I'm grateful about any help. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 16:30, 2 June 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Categories on Main Page ==<br />
<br />
[[MediaWiki:Common.css]] has the following entry:<br />
<pre><br />
.page-Main_Page div#catlinks ul li {<br />
border-left: none;<br />
position: absolute;<br />
left: 70px;<br />
bottom: 6px;<br />
}<br />
</pre><br />
The <code>70px</code> cause an overlap for me in Firefox, and much too small a gap in Chrome. I suggest to actually remove that line completely, just compare it with categories on other pages: The gap is quite large. In Firefox, also the <code>6px</code> are too much, but in Chrome they are required. But it might be worth to try whether setting vertical align to something else can achieve a more consistent display. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.88.230|162.158.88.230]] 10:22, 13 July 2018 (UTC)<br />
:And the comment above that says: "Dirty hack to hide the categories of the current comic from main page. ...". I'm aware of this but there is much more, especially for a mobile version I'm looking forward to. Only in this case I see three problems: The component is rendered as a list (ul,li) by hiding the bullets. This then empty space is always rendered different in different browsers. Using "position: absolute" tries to circumvent this but absolute positioning is bad layout and never should be used. Furthermore mixing the units ''px'' and ''em'' in many places is also a problem when comparing it at different browsers. I'm working on this with the final goal also having a proper mobile version, not only for Firefox, Chrome, Edge,... on a desktop. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 12:12, 13 July 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Bookmark ==<br />
<br />
I think we should add this book mark I made to automatically transfer anything from xkcd to its explainxkcd page (I was frustrated, ok?):<br />
<br />
javascript:x=window.location.href;x = x.replace(/\D/g,'');t=document.title.substring(5).replace(/ /g,"_");window.location.href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/"+x+":"+t;<br />
<br />
I know the code could be more compact, but using this, you can just press a button and it will take you to the explain page</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2102:_Internet_Archive&diff=1685562102: Internet Archive2019-01-24T21:04:58Z<p>Imperpay: Expanded briefly on the meaning of "unpublished", since I was unfamiliar with the term as meaning "actively removed from publication"; I only knew it as "never published".</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2102<br />
| date = January 23, 2019<br />
| title = Internet Archive<br />
| image = internet_archive.png<br />
| titletext = The fact that things like the npm left-pad incident are so rare is oddly reassuring.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a BOT. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
The {{w|Internet Archive}} is a project that is invaluable for internet research. It is a public archive of information, including public domain books and music. It also runs the {{w|Wayback Machine}}, an archive of backups of web pages all over the Web at various times that can be used to see past versions of a page, even if that site has since shut down. The Internet Archive accepts submissions of any type of information, including new backups of web pages and newly-made public domain content.<br />
<br />
Ponytail and Cueball first remark upon how weird the concept of the Internet Archive is, commenting that it would seem like an implausible concept if not for the fact that it already existed.<br />
<br />
This revisits a point that Randall made in [[2085: arXiv]]: in the title text for that comic, he wrote,<br />
<br />
:''Both arXiv and archive.org are invaluable projects which, if they didn't exist, we would dismiss as obviously ridiculous and unworkable.''<br />
<br />
They then become more philosophical, and wonder about invaluable systems that are maintained by a just a few individuals, meaning that they could disappear if any of those people stopped doing what they were doing. They relate this to the function of the {{w|human body}}, which does contain many {{w|List of systems of the human body|systems}} whose function and inner workings are unknown to the average person.<br />
<br />
Again, as in [[2085: arXiv]], the two try not to "jinx things" by drawing attention to the improbability of this system working perfectly. In arXiv, when Megan exclaims that being able to post research papers as free PDFs on arXiv "makes no sense at all", Ponytail responds, ''"Shhh, you'll jinx it!"'' Here, Cueball tells Ponytail, "Probably best not to think about it." This is ironic as the inclusion of this information in a popular comic like XKCD is drawing attention to it.<br />
<br />
As an example of "invaluable systems maintained by just a few individuals", the title text refers to the "[https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm npm left-pad incident]", a 2016 incident where a package for the {{w|npm (software)|npm}} package manager was unpublished (i.e., removed from the software library) by its author. As this particular package was used by many projects, both directly and indirectly, this caused a severe disruption in the software world. Randall is relieved that cases like this do not occur more frequently.<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
:[Ponytail and Cueball are walking to the right.]<br />
:Ponytail: The Internet Archive is so weird. If it didn't exist, it would sound totally implausible.<br />
:Cueball: ''Seriously.''<br />
<br />
:[Ponytail and Cueball continue walking to the right.]<br />
:Cueball: Do you ever worry about how reliant we are on systems that someone happens to maintain for some reason but which could disappear at any time?<br />
<br />
:[Ponytail and Cueball are seen in silhouette from a distance.]<br />
:Ponytail: Yeah - the same thing freaks me out about having a body.<br />
:Cueball: I know, right?? I don't even know what half these parts ''do''!<br />
:Ponytail: And yet if they stop, we die!<br />
:Cueball: Probably best not to think about it.<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Biology]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=856:_Trochee_Fixation&diff=167392856: Trochee Fixation2018-12-26T22:51:36Z<p>Imperpay: The wikipedia link to "metric foot" now goes to "ISO 2848" which discusses metric lengths used in the construction industry, including the 30-cm "metric foot". Ugh. I replaced the link with a link to "foot (prosody)". Better.</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 856<br />
| date = February 4, 2011<br />
| title = Trochee Fixation<br />
| image = trochee fixation.png<br />
| titletext = If you Huffman-coded all the 'random' things everyone on the internet has said over the years, you'd wind up with, like, 30 or 40 bytes *tops*.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
<br />
A {{w|trochee}} is a type of poetic {{w|foot (prosody)}}. A foot is a measure in poetry; it consists of stressed beats and unstressed beats. A trochee is a foot which consists of one stressed beat followed by an unstressed beat. "Trochee" itself is an example of this as you stress the first syllable and don't stress the second syllable ("TROH-kee".) <br />
<br />
Trochee fixation is supposedly caused by people experiencing rushes of {{w|dopamine}} when they hear or speak trochees during their youth. Due to the rush of dopamine they become more fixated on trochees. In the endless quest for dopamine, they continue to search for trochees (typically on the internet) while also producing more places to encounter trochees meaning more fixation for others with the disorder. [[Megan]] proposes a "radical trocheeotomy" which appears to be a type of {{w|psychosurgery}} due to the erasing of memory. [[Cueball]] misinterprets Megan's intent as a "{{w|tracheotomy}}", a removal of the girl's vocal cords, of which he is in favor.<br />
<br />
Megan proceeds with the trocheeotomy, but luckily it does not have the intended effect. Though the previous trochees have been forcefully and unkindly removed, the girl immediately generates new ones: "BAN-jo," "TUR-tle," "JET-pack," "FER-ret," and so on. The correct way of removing the fixation would be to alter {{w|mesolimbic pathway}}. Megan, not realizing this, succumbs to attempting to removing the girl's trochee fixation via cranially-applied brick. Depending on how hard the girl is hit with the brick she may have memory loss and potentially forget all the trochees she knows, but if this method is carried out she will have significant brain damage and will likely start fixating on trochees that she hears.<br />
<br />
There are references to {{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles}} and {{w|Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers}}, both of which are examples of actual, trochaic TV show titles. Additionally, there is a reference to sci/fi author {{w|Neal Stephenson}} who has written {{w|Snow Crash}}, {{w|Anathem}} and many other books.<br />
<br />
"Jetpack ferret" could be a reference to [[20: Ferret]], although the ferret in question only had wings.<br />
<br />
{{w|Huffman coding}} is a lossless data compression algorithm that works by recording a specific string and then only recording that the string is repeated a certain number of characters later on until eventually it only contains a "dictionary" of unique substrings and then mentions of where those substrings repeat. In highly repetitive data this can cut down the file size immensely, which is what Randall is implying by saying you would only end up with 30–40 bytes. Most of the "[[221: Random Number|random]]" stuff said on the Internet has been said before.<br />
<br />
Trochee and other types of poetry "feet" is the subject of [[1383: Magic Words]], and the trochaic form is explored further in [[1412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]].<br />
<br />
[http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/02/04/trochee-chart/ On the blog], Randall published statistics about the occurrence number of certain combinations (now obviously inaccurate).<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:Girl: Robot ninja! Pirate doctor laser monkey! Narwhal zombie badger hobo bacon kitty captain penguin raptor Jesus!<br />
<br />
:Megan: We'd been seeing this brain damage for years, but only recently did our linguists identify the pattern behind it.<br />
<br />
:Megan: The patients fixate on animals and types of people whose names are trochees (two syllables, with the accent on the first).<br />
<br />
:The malfunction causes a rush of dopamine whenever these trochees are heard or spoken.<br />
:[Chart shows "internet" and "brain," with arrows marked "trochees" traveling both ways between them. An arrow marked "dopamine" loops from the brain back to the brain.]<br />
<br />
:The warning signs appear in childhood:<br />
:[Child sits in front of TV.]<br />
:Child: Yeah! Mighty teenage morphin' ninja power mutant turtle rangers!<br />
:Social reinforcement focuses the fixation on a few dozen words.<br />
:Cueball (off-panel): Is there a cure?<br />
<br />
:[Girl is reclining under a big machine pointed at her face.]<br />
:Megan: We're about to try a radical trocheeotomy.<br />
:Cueball: Rip out her vocal chords? I'm in favor.<br />
:Megan: No, we're modifying her vocabulary* to erase the words she's fixated on.<br />
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>Digitoneurolinguistic hacking! It's totally real! Ask Neal Stephenson.<br />
<br />
:Megan: Either the gap will be filled by normal words, or she'll just generate a new set of trochees.<br />
:Megan: Here goes.<br />
:[She pulls the lever on a large panel.]<br />
:''kachunk bzzzZZZZZZ''<br />
<br />
:[Girl is waking up.]<br />
:Girl: ...GzZhRmPh ...<br />
:Girl ...banjo turtle!<br />
:Girl: Jetpack ferret pizza lawyer! Dentist hamster wombat plumber turkey jester hindu cowboy hooker bobcat scrapple!<br />
:Megan (off-panel): Sigh.<br />
:Megan: Time for plan B.<br />
:Cueball: Someone get a brick.<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Language]]</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2079:_Alpha_Centauri&diff=1665292079: Alpha Centauri2018-11-30T19:03:06Z<p>Imperpay: Changed "half of the needed speed" to "half of 1% of the needed speed".</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2079<br />
| date = November 30, 2018<br />
| title = Alpha Centauri<br />
| image = alpha_centauri.png<br />
| titletext = And let's be honest, it's more like two and a half stars. Proxima is barely a star and barely bound to the system.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by an INTERGALACTIC YELPER. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
{{w|Alpha Centauri}} is the closest star system to our solar system, being 4.37 {{w|light-year}}s away. As such, there are numerous ongoing plans and projects to journey to, and explore the star system. Ponytail announces such a project using a {{w|Voyager program|Voyager}}-like probe.<br />
<br />
However, the offscreen person is against her idea, saying "Alpha Centauri sucks". The comic makes a joke on rating systems, by saying it only has 3 stars. Alpha Centauri indeed only has 3 stars, Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri.<br />
<br />
Many rating systems, such as {{w|Yelp}}, use a {{w|Star (classification)|star rating system}}, with more stars indicating higher quality. 3 stars out of 5 stars would be a "middling" rating, equating to a C grade, and 3 stars out of 10 stars would be very poor quality. <br />
<br />
The title text refers to Proxima Centauri, a {{w|red dwarf}}, which is a type of low-mass star. According to the offscreen person, this barely qualifies it to be a star. Furthermore, Proxima Centauri is nearly 13,000 AU (0.21 light years) away from the other 2 stars in the system, so it was long unknown whether Proxima Centauri was gravitationally bound to the Alpha Centauri star system or not.<br />
<br />
===Calculations===<br />
All numbers are rounded after subsequent calculations.<br />
<br />
4.367 light years / 35 years = 0.12477 light years/year<br />
<br />
0.12477 light years/year * 5.879e+12 miles/light year = 733,484,000,000 miles/year<br />
<br />
733,484,000,000 miles/year / 365 days/year / 24 hours/day = 83,000,000 Miles/hour / 1.60934 miles/kilometer = 134,000,000 Kilometers/hour<br />
<br />
According to [https://www.space.com/41447-parker-solar-probe-fastest-spacecraft-ever.html space.com] the fastest spacecraft ever will be the Parker Solar Probe which will reach 430,000 mph (692,000 km/h) as it reaches its closest point orbiting the sun. This is just over half of 1% of the needed speed of the Alpha Centauri vehicle proposed in the comic. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, is currently traveling at about 38,000 mph (61,000 km/h).<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:[Ponytail stands on a podium giving a presentation in front of a slide with an image of a [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1 Voyager-like] satellite.]<br />
:Ponytail: Our probe can reach Alpha Centauri in under 35 years.<br />
:Offscreen voice: We should go somewhere else. Alpha Centauri sucks.<br />
:Ponytail: Huh? It's the closest most convenient system!<br />
:Offscreen: Yeah, but I checked online and it only has three stars.<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1970:_Name_Dominoes&diff=1565761970: Name Dominoes2018-05-03T20:26:34Z<p>Imperpay: Replacing the description of Kevin Smith (football) with Kevin Smith (writer/director/actor). Attempting to clarify Chris Isaac/Chris Isaak. ~~~~</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1970<br />
| date = March 21, 2018<br />
| title = Name Dominoes<br />
| image = name_dominoes.png<br />
| titletext = In competition, you can only play a name if you know who the person is. No fair saying "Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real person! Let me just Google him real quick."<br />
}}<br />
<br />
*A large version of the comic picture can be found [https://xkcd.com/1970/large/ here].<br />
*A numbered version can be found [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/1970-_Name_Dominoes_-_The_large_image_with_numbers.jpg here].<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Some of the names at the bottom need to be explained, connections need to be finished, and some links are wrong (Maybe typo by an editor or a mistake on Randall's part? Needs to be sorted out). Good luck to the brave soul who manages to complete the table, and thanks in advance. Do NOT delete this tag too soon. }}<br />
<br />
{{w|Dominoes}} is a family of boardgames played with rectangular "domino" tiles. A domino tile is divided into two squares, each displaying a number. Under most rules, a domino tile is placed on the table adjacent to another tile, and the adjacent ends must match in some way (usually by the number displayed on the touching ends). Randall's "name dominoes" shows a set of domino tiles with people's names instead of numbers, and adjacent tiles are matched by whether the closest name is the same (such as how Chris Evans' family name matches Evan Taylor Jones' given name).<br />
<br />
The title text spells out a rule that a player may only place a tile if they know who that person is. This is a variation of a rule in {{w|Scrabble}}, where a player loses a turn if their chosen word don't survive a dictionary challenge over the validity of the word. This rule implies that players are allowed to create new name dominoes tiles and that it is not a fixed set. In this case the player that is challenged has used the name Frank Johnson of which there are {{w|Frank Johnson|12 exact matches}} on Wikipedia along with six with a middle name and more. (The player was likely trying to place a tile in the upper-right area of the board, in an attempt to connect the "Frank Vincent" and "Lyndon Johnson" dominoes. The move was subsequently made impossible when the "Francis Drake" domino was played.) In a google search as of the day the comic came out the first hit was {{w|Frank Johnson (basketball)|Frank Johnson}} who is a retired American professional basketball player and coach. Randall has made several [[:Category:Basketball|references to basketball]] in his comics. <br />
<br />
A large board is covered in rectangular "dominoes" (271 pieces), with each domino bearing the name of a "well-known" person or character (fictional). The dominoes are arranged as if a game of dominoes were being played, but instead of the game requiring the number of spots of adjacent dominoes to match up, this game requires adjacent ''names'' to match up. Because most people have two or more names, different matches are made at each end of a domino. Fun fact is that two of the people are "named after" the game: {{w|Fats Domino}} and {{w|Domino Harvey}}. <br />
<br />
The match can be exact (e.g., "Kevin" on one domino adjacent to "Kevin" on another), homonymic (e.g., "Klein" adjacent to "Kline"), or nickname-based (e.g., "James" adjacent to "Jimmy", which in turn is adjacent to "Jim"). Sometimes last names are matched up with first names (e.g., "{{w|Elizabeth Warren}}" adjacent to "{{w|Warren Beatty}}"), and in some cases only a single name is used (e.g., "{{w|Columbo}}", "{{w|Drake_(musician)|Drake}}", "{{w|Garfield_(character)|Garfield}}", "{{w|Prince_(musician)|Prince}}"). Singular names are represented by a half-size square "domino" (or "{{w|Polyomino|monomino}}"), with a few exceptions: "{{w|Garnet_(Steven_Universe)|Garnet}}" has a full-size tile (a complex reference explained below), and "{{w|Batman}}" and "{{w|Superman}}" have full-size tiles and are placed as though they were two-part names: the first square of "Superman" is matched with "Super", and the second square is matched with the second square of "Batman" (as though both characters had the last name "Man"). Some people have three or more names (e.g., "{{w|Frank Lloyd Wright}}") and have a 3-square domino tile (or "straight {{w|Tromino|tromino}}", 50% longer than normal) which permits matching to a middle name (e.g. "Frank Lloyd Wright" is matched to "{{w|Lloyd Alexander}}" and "{{w|Harold Lloyd}}").<br />
<br />
The names come from a wide variety of fields: scientists (e.g., {{w|Isaac Newton}}), historical figures ({{w|George Washington}}), musicians ({{w|Drake (musician)|Drake}}), politicians ({{w|John Kerry}}), actors ({{w|Kevin Costner}}), writers ({{w|Washington Irving}}), fashion designers ({{w|Oscar de la Renta}}), and so on. Most of the names are real people but a few are fictional characters, including some non-human characters like {{w|Garfield_(character)|Garfield}} and {{w|Grover#Super_Grover|Super Grover}}. In one case the nick name for a company is used: {{w|Ma Bell}} aka Bell System.<br />
<br />
One notable reference beyond just the use of a name is in the bottom left, there is the connection [ {{w|William Safire}} ][ Garnet ][ {{w|Jack Ruby|Ruby, Jack}} ]. The connection seems to be based on the fact that {{w|Sapphire}}, {{w|Garnet}} and {{w|Ruby}} are all {{w|gemstones}}, which does not match the implied rules of the game. This tile is a reference to the character {{w|Garnet_(Steven_Universe)|Garnet}} in the cartoon {{w|Steven Universe}}, who is a "fusion" formed by two Gems: Ruby and Sapphire. Thus, the name "Garnet" is treated as though it was two names "Ruby" and "Sapphire", requiring a two-square tile despite having a one-word name. Randall has previously made references to this universe in [[1608: Hoverboard]]. (See [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/1608_1031x1095y_Steven_Universe_family_and_ice_cream_prediction.png this] and [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/1608_1077x1109y_Darth_Vaders_talks_about_Steven_Universe_on_the_bridge_Megan_adjust_antenna.png this] image from that comic). <br />
<br />
Additionally, Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul have been mentioned before, in the title text of [[1277: Ayn Random]]. That idea may have been the prototype for this.<br />
<br />
In at least one case it is not entirely clear who is being referred to: "John Kelly" most likely refers to Gen. {{w|John F. Kelly}}, Donald Trump's chief of staff, but the name is extremely common and could equally refer to {{w|John Kelly|any number of people}}.<br />
<br />
==Table of names==<br />
*The number # refers to the numbers on this [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/1970-_Name_Dominoes_-_The_large_image_with_numbers.jpg numbered picture]. <br />
**Read more on this page:<br />
***[[1970: Name Dominoes/Numbered images]]<br />
*Wiki links not tested as they were set in only from the name in the comic.<br />
**Spell checking...<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
!style="width:15%"|Domino<br />
!style="width:45%"|Notability and notes<br />
!style="width:15%"|Connections<br />
!style="width:20%"|Mode<br />
!style="width:5%"|#<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Christian Campbell}}<br />
|Canadian American stage and screen actor, writer, and photographer. Most likely refers to the actor, but there are also a Trinidadian-Bahamian poet called {{w|Christian Campbell (poet)|Christian Campbell}}.<br />
|Neve Campbell <br>Naomi Campbell<br />
|Last-Last <br>Last-Last<br />
|1<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Neve Campbell}}<br />
|Canadian actress, known for starring in the movie series {{w|Scream (1996 film)|Scream}}.<br />
|Christian Campbell <br>Joseph Campbell<br />
|Last-Last <br>Last-Last<br />
|2<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Joe McCarthy}}<br />
|Joseph McCarthy, (also called {{w|Joseph_McCarthy#Legacy|Joe McCarthy}}), served as U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. {{w|McCarthyism}} is named after him. It was the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence, especially caused by fear of Communist influence during the beginning of the cold war. McCarthyism has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956.<br />
|Eugene McCarthy <br>Joseph Smith<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|3<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Eugene McCarthy}}<br />
|Eugene Joseph McCarthy was an American politician, poet, and a long-time Congressman from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. (He is not to be confused with the other Senator McCarthy, Joseph McCarthy, see #3)<br />
|Joe McCarthy <br>Gene Vincent<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|4<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Gene Vincent}}<br />
|American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-A-Lula", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly.<br />
|Eugene McCarthy <br>Gene Kelly <br>Frank Vincent<br />
|First-First (approximate) <br>First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|5<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Gene Kelly}}<br />
|American actor and dancer known primarily for musicals such as 'Singing in the rain'<br />
|Gene Vincent <br>John Kelly<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|6<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kate Hudson}}<br />
|Golden Globe-winning American actress. Won for playing Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous in 2000.<br />
|Rock Hudson <br>Katherine Johnson<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|7<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Rock Hudson}}<br />
|American actor who was viewed as a prominent 'heartthrob' of the Hollywood Golden Age, staring as the lead man in many movies during the 1950s and 60s, among other {{w|Giant (1956 film)|Giant}}, James Deans last film, for which both where nominated for an Oscar in the best actor category. He later became known for his secret homosexual life. Hudson died from AIDS-related complications in 1985, becoming the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness.<br />
|Katie Hudson <br>The Rock<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-Last<br />
|8<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Gordon Brown}}<br />
|British Prime Minister from 2007-2010.<br />
|James Brown<br />
|Last-Last<br />
|9<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Brown}}<br />
|American singer, known as the Godfather of Soul<br />
|Gordon Brown <br>John Brown <br>James Newton Howard<br />
|Last-Last <br>Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|10<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown}}<br />
|American abolitionist who led an attack on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. There are several other {{w|John Brown|John Browns}}.<br />
|James Brown <br>John Howard <br>John Wayne<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First <br>First-First<br />
|11<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Howard}}<br />
|Australian politician. Served as 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 1996-2007. There are several other {{w|John Howard (disambiguation)|John Howards}} but this Prime Minister is by far the best known among them.<br />
|John Brown <br>Howard Stern<br />
|First-First <br>Last-First<br />
|12<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Columbo}}<br />
|Fictional character. Homicide detective from American TV show "Columbo"; portrayed by actor Peter Falk.<br />
|Chris Columbus<br />
|Only-Last (approximate)<br />
|13<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Columbus (filmmaker)|Chris Columbus}}<br />
|Film director and screenwriter.<br />
|Columbo <br>Christopher Columbus <br>Chris Hughes<br />
|Last-Only (approximate) <br>First-First (approximate) <i>and</i> Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|14<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Christopher Columbus}}<br />
|Italian explorer. Credited with "discovering" the Americas in 1492 by leading voyages and establishing continued ties between Europe and the Americas.<br />
|Chris Columbus<br />
|First-First (approximate) <i>and</i> Last-Last<br />
|15<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Naomi Campbell}}<br />
|British model and actress.<br />
|Christian Campbell <br>Joseph Campbell <br>Naomi Klein<br />
|Last-Last <br>Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|16<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Joseph Campbell}}<br />
|American author. Most known for his book <i>The Hero with a Thousand Faces</i> about the hero type found throughout world mythologies.<br />
|Neve Campbell <br>Naomi Campbell <br>Joseph Smith<br />
|Last-Last <br>Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|17<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Joseph Smith}}<br />
|American religious leader; founder of Mormonism. Publisher of <i>The Book of Mormon</i>.<br />
|Joe McCarthy <br>Joseph Campbell<br />
|First-First (approximate) <br>First-First<br />
|18<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Frank Vincent}}<br />
|American actor.<br />
|Gene Vincent <br>Francis Drake<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|19<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Kelly}}<br />
|White House Chief of Staff under President Donald Trump. Retired US Marine Corps general.<br />
|Gene Kelly <br>Katherine Johnson<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-Last (approximate)<br />
|20<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Katherine Johnson}}<br />
|African-American mathematician at NASA. Calculated trajectories, launch windows, and flight paths for NASA moon missions and the Space Shuttle.<br />
|Kate Hudson <br>John Kelly <br>Lyndon Johnson<br />
|First-First (approximate) <br>Last-First (approximate) <br>Last-Last<br />
|21<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|The Rock}}<br />
|Nickname for Dwayne Johnson, a pro wrestler, and actor.<br />
|Rock Hudson <br>Chris Rock <br>Oscar the Grouch<br />
|Last-First <br>Last-Last <br>First-Middle<br />
|22<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Rock}}<br />
|American comedian.<br />
|The Rock <br>Chris Isaac<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|23<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Isaac}}<br />
|Former quarterback in the Canadian Football League. Probable misspelling of {{w|Chris Isaak}}, American musician. <br />
|Chris Rock <br>Isaac Newton<br />
|First-First <br>Last-First<br />
|24<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Newton Howard}}<br />
|American composer, conductor, music producer and musician.<br />
|James Brown <br>Isaac Newton <br>Wayne Newton <br>Wayne Howard<br />
|First-First <br>Middle-Last <br>Middle-Last <br>Last-Last<br />
|25<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Wayne}}<br />
|American actor, known primarily for roles in Westerns<br />
|John Brown <br>Wayne Newton<br />
|First-First <br>Last-First<br />
|26<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Howard Stern}}<br />
|Radio talk show host. Known for {{w|The Howard Stern Show}}.<br />
|John Howard <br>Howard Hunt<br />
|First-Last <br>First-First<br />
|27<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Howard Hunt}}<br />
|Former CIA operative, convicted for Watergate burglary.<br />
|Howard Stern <br>Helen Hunt<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|28<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Hughes}}<br />
|American entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg.<br />
|Chris Columbus <br>Helen Hughes<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|29<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Naomi Watts}}<br />
| Australian actress, born in Britain<br />
|Naomi Klein <br>James Watt (steam)<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last (approximate)<br />
|30<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Naomi Klein}}<br />
|Best known for the book "No Logo"<br />
|Naomi Campbell <br>Naomi Watts <br>Kevin Kline<br />
|First-First <br>First-First <br>Last-Last (approximate)<br />
|31<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kevin Kline}}<br />
|American actor<br />
|Naomi Klein <br>Kevin Bacon<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br>First-First<br />
|32<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Francis Bacon}}<br />
|16th century English philosopher. Commonly credited with the phrase "knowledge is power".<br />
|Francis Drake <br>Kevin Bacon<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|33<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Francis Drake}}<br />
|English privateer<br />
|Frank Vincent <br>Francis Bacon <br>Frank Drake<br />
|First-First (approximate) <br>First-First <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|34<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Lyndon Johnson}}<br />
|Former American president (1963-1969)<br />
|Katherine Johnson<br />
|Last-Last<br />
|35<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Oscar the Grouch}}<br />
|A muppet who lives in a trash can from the children's TV show {{w|Sesame Street}}.<br />
|The Rock <br>Oscar Isaac<br />
|Middle-Last <br> First-First<br />
|36<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Oscar Isaac}}<br />
|Actor.<br />
|Oscar the Grouch <br>Isaac Hayes <br> Oscar de la Hoya<br />
|First-First <br>Last-First <br>First-First<br />
|37<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Isaac Hayes}}<br />
|American singer-songwriter<br />
|Oscar Isaac <br> Isaac Newton <br>Sean Hayes<br />
|First-Last <br>First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|38<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Isaac Newton}}<br />
|Well-known 15th century physicist who created the three laws of motion.<br />
|Chris Isaac <br>James Newton Howard <br>Isaac Hayes<br />
|First-Last <br>Last-Middle <br>First-First<br />
|39<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Wayne Newton}}<br />
|Musician.<br />
|James Newton Howard <br>John Wayne <br>Wayne Knight<br />
|Last-Middle <br>First-Last <br>First-First<br />
|40<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Wayne Knight}}<br />
|American actor best known for playing Newman in the TV show {{w|Seinfeld}}.<br />
|Wayne Newton <br>Wayne Brady<br />
|First-First <br>First-First<br />
|41<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Helen Hunt}}<br />
|American actress<br />
|Howard Hunt <br>Helen Hughes <br>Helen Thomas<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First <br>First-First<br />
|42<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Helen Hughes}}<br />
|Australian economist<br />
|Chris Hughes <br>Helen Hunt<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|43<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Watt|James Watt (Steam)}}<br />
|Scottish inventor who perfected on the earlier Newcomen steam engine with a design that made it practical for widespread use and is credited with helping to usher in the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. His name became the SI unit for power.<br />
|Naomi Watts <br>James Watt (Interior) <br>Stephen James<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br>First-First <i>and</i> Last-Last <br>First-Last<br />
|44<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James G. Watt|James Watt (Interior)}}<br />
|U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1981-1983<br />
|James Watt (Steam)<br />
|First-First <i>and</i> Last-Last<br />
|45<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kevin Costner}}<br />
|Academy Award-winning American actor.<br />
|Kevin Bacon <br>Kevin Love<br />
|First-First <br>First-First<br />
|46<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kevin Bacon}}<br />
|American actor. Known for {{w|Footloose (1984 film)|Footloose}}, and for {{w|Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon}}.<br />
|Kevin Kline <br>Francis Bacon <br>Kevin Costner<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|47<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kevin Love}}<br />
|Relatively famous and accomplished professional basketball player who won an NBA championship with the much more famous and accomplished LeBron James in Cleveland.<br />
|Kevin Costner <br>Kevin Smith<br />
|First-First <br>First-First<br />
|48<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Lisa Frank}}<br />
|American businesswoman who founded {{w|Lisa Frank Incorporated}}.<br />
|Frank Drake<br />
|Last-First<br />
|49<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Frank Drake}}<br />
|American astronomer and astrophysicist.<br />
|Francis Drake <br>Lisa Frank <br>Drake<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-Last <br>Last-Only<br />
|50<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Drake}}<br />
|Grammy Award-winning Canadian rapper.<br />
|Frank Drake<br />
|Only-Last<br />
|51<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Oscar de la Renta}}<br />
|Fashion designer.<br />
|Oscar de la Hoya<br />
|First-First<br />
|52<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Oscar de la Hoya}}<br />
|Professional boxer who won multiple titles in different weight classes as well as an Olympic gold medal before his retirement in 2009.<br />
|Oscar Isaac <br>Oscar de la Renta<br />
|First-First <br>First-First<br />
|53<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Sean Hayes (actor)|Sean Hayes}}<br />
|<br />
|Isaac Hayes <br>Wallace Shawn<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-Last (approximate)<br />
|54<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Wallace Shawn}}<br />
|American actor. Vizzini in The Princess Bride<br />
|George Wallace <br>Charles Wallace <br>Sean Hayes<br />
|First-Last <br>First-Last <br>Last-First (approximate)<br />
|55<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Wayne Howard}}<br />
|<br />
|James Newton Howard <br>Wayne Brady<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|56<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Wayne Brady}}<br />
|American comedian, known for {{w|Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)|Whose Line Is It Anyway?}}<br />
|Wayne Howard <br>Wayne Knight <br>James Brady <br>Tom Brady<br />
|First-First <br>First-First <br>Last-Last <br>Last-Last<br />
|57<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Brady}}<br />
|White House Press Secretary for US President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) who was shot during an assassination attempt against Reagan in 1981. Subsequent gun control legislation known as the "Brady Bill" was named for him.<br />
|Wayne Brady <br>James Monroe<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|58<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tom Brady}}<br />
|Quarterback for the {{w|New England Patriots}}. Notable for winning 5 Super Bowls.<br />
|James Brady <br>Helen Thomas<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-Last (approximate)<br />
|59<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Helen Thomas}}<br />
|<br />
|Helen Hunt <br>Tom Brady <br>Tom Hanks<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last (approximate) <br> Last-Last (approximate)<br />
|60<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tom Hanks}}<br />
|Academy award winning actor. Known for {{w|Forrest Gump}}, {{w|Saving Private Ryan}}, {{w|Cast Away}}, and several other famous films.<br />
|Helen Thomas <br>Hank Aaron <br>Hank Williams<br />
|First-Last (approximate) <br>Last-First (approximate) <br>Last-First (approximate)<br />
|61<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Hank Aaron}}<br />
|Former Major League Baseball player. Hit 755 career home runs, a record at the time.<br />
|Tom Hanks <br>Aaron Carter<br />
|First-Last (approximate) <br>Last-First<br />
|62<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Aaron Carter}}<br />
|American singer.<br />
|Hank Aaron<br />
|First-Last<br />
|63<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Stephen James}}<br />
|<br />
|James Watt (Steam) <br>Steve Harvey<br />
|Last-First <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|64<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Will Smith}}<br />
|American actor. Known for {{w|The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air}}<br />
|Kevin Smith<br />
|Last-Last<br />
|65<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kevin Smith}}<br />
|American writer and director of {{w|Clerks}} and other films who often also plays the character Silent Bob in his films.<br />
|Will Smith <br>Kevin Love <br>Kevin James<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First <br>First-First<br />
|66<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kevin James}}<br />
|American actor. Known for {{w|Paul Blart: Mall Cop}}<br />
|Kevin Smith <br>James Saint James<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|67<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Garfield (character)|Garfield}}<br />
|A fictional cat and the star of the eponymous ''{{w|Garfield}}'' comic by {{w|Jim Davis (cartoonist)|Jim Davis}}. Previously appeared in [[78: Garfield]].<br />
|James Garfield<br />
|Only-Last<br />
|68<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Garfield}}<br />
|20th President of the United States. Notably, he was assassinated after only 6 months.<br />
|Garfield <br>Etta James <br>James Saint James<br />
|Last-Only <br>First-Last <br>First-Last<br />
|69<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Warren Buffett}}<br />
|Billionaire and CEO of {{w|Berkshire Hathaway}}.<br />
|Jimmy Buffett <br>Warren Beatty<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|70<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jimmy Buffett}}<br />
|American country musician.<br />
|Etta James <br>Warren Buffett <br>Jim Jones<br />
|First-Last (approximate) <br>Last-Last <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|71<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Warren Beatty}}<br />
|Actor.<br />
|Warren Buffett <br>Elizabeth Warren<br />
|FIrst-First <br>First-Last<br />
|72<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Elizabeth Warren}}<br />
|Massachusetts Senator since 2013. Known for her work as a consumer rights activist.<br />
|Warren Beatty <br>Earl Warren <br>Elizabeth Kolbert<br />
|Last-First <br>Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|73<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Earl Warren}}<br />
|Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. Presided over several landmark cases including ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'' (ruled segregation of public schools unconstitutional), ''Reynolds v. Sims'' (electoral districts for state legislature must be equal in population), and ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (suspects detained by police must be informed of their rights as an accused).<br />
|Elizabeth Warren <br>James Earl Jones<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-Middle<br />
|74<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Elizabeth Kolbert}}<br />
|<br />
|Elizabeth Warren <br>Stephen Colbert<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last (approximate)<br />
|75<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Stephen Colbert}}<br />
|American talk show host. Known for {{w|The Colbert Report}} and {{w|The Late Show with Stephen Colbert}}<br />
|Elizabeth Kolbert<br />
|Last-Last (approximate)<br />
|76<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|George Wallace}}<br />
|American politician, who initially supported, but later renounced racial segregation.<br />
|Wallace Shawn<br />
|Last-First<br />
|77<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Charles Wallace}}<br />
|<br />
|Wallace Shawn <br>Charles Manson<br />
|Last-First <br>First-First<br />
|78<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Monroe}}<br />
|Founding father and Fifth president of the USA<br />
|James Brady <br>Marilyn Monroe<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|79<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Marilyn Monroe}}<br />
|American actress and pin-up model from the 50s. She was immensely famous during her time, and unexpectedly committed suicide at age 36.<br />
|James Monroe <br>Marilyn Manson<br />
|Last-Last <br> First-First<br />
|80<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Hank Williams}}<br />
|Country singer<br />
|Tom Hanks <br>William C. Williams <br>Robin Williams<br />
|First-Last (approximate) <br>Last-Last <br>Last-Last<br />
|81<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|William C. Williams}}<br />
|American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism.<br />
|Hank Williams <br>Billy D. Williams<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First (approximate) <i>and</i> Last-Last<br />
|82<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Steve Harvey}}<br />
|Host of {{w|Family Feud}}.<br />
|Stephen James <br>Domino Harvey<br />
|First-First (approximate) <br>Last-Last<br />
|83<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Domino Harvey}}<br />
|<br />
|Steve Harvey <br>Harvey Milk <br>Fats Domino<br />
|Last-Last <br>Last-First <br>First-Last<br />
|84<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harvey Milk}}<br />
|American politician and gay rights activist.<br />
|Domino Harvey<br />
|First-Last<br />
|85<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Saint James}}<br />
|<br />
|Kevin James <br>James Garfield <br>Jimmy John<br />
|Last-Last <br>Last-First <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|86<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Etta James|Etta James (1)}}<br />
|Used again in 266<br />
|James Garfield <br>Jimmy Buffett<br />
|Last-First <br>Last-First (approximate)<br />
|87<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jim Jones}}<br />
|Cult leader behind the 1978 {{w|Jonestown}} mass suicide in Guyana.<br />
|Jimmy Buffett <br>James Earl Jones <br>Tom Jones<br />
|First-First (approximate) <br>Last-Last <br>Last-Last<br />
|88<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Earl Jones}}<br />
|American actor. Voiced {{w|Darth Vader}} in the original Star Wars.<br />
|Earl Warren <br>Jim Jones <br>Quincy Jones <br>James Earl Ray<br />
|Middle-First <br>Last-Last <br>Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|89<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Charlie Parker}}<br />
|Jazz musician.<br />
|Ray Parker Jr. <br>Charles Manson<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|90<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ray Parker Jr.}}<br />
|Singer and songwriter who wrote and performed the theme song to the 1984 film {{w|Ghostbusters}}.<br />
|Charlie Parker <br>Man Ray <br>Rachael Ray<br />
|Last-Last <br>First-Last <br>First-Last<br />
|91<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ray Charles}}<br />
|American blues musician. Blind from the age of 7.<br />
|Charles Manson <br>Rachael Ray <br>Ray Allen<br />
|Last-First <br>First-Last <br>First-First<br />
|92<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Charles Manson}}<br />
|Cult leader of the {{w|Manson Family}}. Convicted of 7 murders; used Beatles songs as bases.<br />
|Charles Wallace <br>Charlie Parker <br>Ray Charles <br>Marilyn Manson<br />
|First-First <br>First-First (approximate) <br>First-Last <br>Last-Last<br />
|93<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Marilyn Manson}}<br />
|American musician. Known for esoteric performances.<br />
|Marilyn Monroe <br>Charles Manson<br />
|First-First <br>Last-Last<br />
|94<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Robin Williams}}<br />
|American stand up comedian. Voiced the Genie in {{w|Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin}}.<br />
|Hank Williams <br>Billy D. Williams <br>Robin Wright<br />
|Last-Last <br>Last-Last <br>First-First<br />
|95<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Billy D. Williams}}<br />
|American actor best known for playing {{w|Lando Calrissian}} in ''{{w|The Empire Strikes Back}}'' and ''{{w|Return of the Jedi}}''.<br />
|William C. Williams <br>Robin Williams <br>Will Wright<br />
|First-First (approximate) <i>and</i> Last-Last <br>Last-Last <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|96<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Will Wright}}<br />
|<br />
|Billy D. Williams <br>Robin Wright <br>Wilber Wright<br />
|First-First (approxiate) <br>Last-Last <br>Last-Last<br />
|97<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Fats Domino}}<br />
|Jazz musician.<br />
|Domino Harvey <br>Fatty Arbuckle<br />
|Last-First <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|98<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Bill Clinton}}<br />
|42nd president of the United States. His wife, {{w|Hillary Clinton}}, ran against {{w|Donald Trump}} in the 2016 presidential election and was Secretary of State.<br />
|George Clinton<br />
|Last-Last<br />
|99<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jimmy John}}<br />
|Founder of the sandwich shop chain Jimmy John's.<br />
|James Earl Jones <br>John Kerry<br />
|First-First (approximate) <br>Last-First<br />
|100<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tom Jones}}<br />
|Can refer to the Welsh Singer or to the fictional character from the book of the same name by Henry Fielding<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|101<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tommy John}}<br />
|Former baseball pitcher who had a surgical graft done to replace a blown ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974; the procedure is now called Tommy John surgery.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|102<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Quincy Jones}}<br />
|American Jazz musician<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|103<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Earl Ray}}<br />
|Killer of Martin Luther King Jr.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|104<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Man Ray}}<br />
|Photographer (Dada, Surrealism).<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|105<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Rachel Ray}}<br />
|Celebrity chef. <br />
|<br />
|<br />
|106<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ray Allen}}<br />
|Professional basketball player who retired in 2013. Won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat, making him the second teammate of {{w|LeBron James}} to appear on this list.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|107<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tim Allen}}<br />
|American comedic actor. Created and starred in the long running sitcom "Home Improvement". Voiced Buzz Lightyear in {{w|Toy Story}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|108<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tim Cook}}<br />
|Current (as of the time of this comic) Chief Executive Officer of {{w|Apple, Inc.}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|109<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tim Howard}}<br />
|Former goalkeeper for the United States men's national soccer team. Holds the record for most saves made in a World Cup match (15 against Belgium in 2010).<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|110<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Robin Wright}}<br />
|American actress, aka Robin Wright-Penn<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|111<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Wilbur Wright}}<br />
|One of the two Wright Brothers (the other was Orville) who made the world's first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|112<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Fatty Arbuckle}}<br />
|Comedian. <br />
|<br />
|<br />
|113<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Fat Joe}}<br />
|Real name Joseph Antonio Cartagena, rapper.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|114<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|George Clinton}}<br />
|Could be either the {{w|George Clinton (vice president)|19th Century politician}} who served as Governor of New York and later as Vice President under {{w|Thomas Jefferson}} and {{w|James Madison}}, or the {{w|George Clinton (musician)|musician}} who rose to fame in the 1970's as one of the biggest acts in funk music and entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|115<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Kerry}}<br />
|Secretary of State under {{w|Barrack Obama}}. Ran against {{w|George W. Bush}} in the 2004 presidential election.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|116<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kerry Washington}}<br />
|Actress in the TV show Scandal.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|117<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Irving}}<br />
|Author.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|118<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Quincy Adams}}<br />
|Sixth president of the United States and son of John Adams.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|119<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Adams}}<br />
|Second president of the United States and father of John Quincy Adams.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|120<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Amy Adams}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|121<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Aimee Mann}}<br />
|Singer/Songwriter.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|122<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Superman}}<br />
|Superhero owned by DC comics who can fly and have super strength/invincibility.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|123<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Batman}}<br />
|Superhero owned by DC comics.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|124<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ayn Rand}}<br />
|Russian political author, known for {{w|Atlas Shrugged}}. XKCD frequently makes fun of Rand's philosophy.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|125<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Lily Allen}}<br />
|British singer-songwriter, sometime actress.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|126<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Paul Allen}}<br />
|Co-founder of {{w|Microsoft}} along with Bill Gates and current owner of several professional sports teams in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers, part of Seattle Sounders FC).<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|127<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ron Howard}}<br />
|Actor and director. Most famously acted in ''{{w|Happy Days}}''; later directed ''{{w|Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13}}''.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|128<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Howard Hughes}}<br />
|American business tycoon<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|129<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Joe Kennedy}}<br />
|US ambassador to the United Kingdom and father of {{w|John F. Kennedy}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|130<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|George Bush}}<br />
|{{w|George H. W. Bush}} and {{w|George W. Bush}} (father and son, respectively), were both presidents of the United States.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|131<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|George Washington}}<br />
|First president of the United States, and general during the Revolutionary War.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|132<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Washington Irving}}<br />
|Short story author who wrote "{{w|Rip Van Winkle}}" and "{{w|The Legend of Sleepy Hollow}}"<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|133<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Martha Wasington}}<br />
|Wife of George Washington.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|134<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ma Rainey}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|135<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jack Ma}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|136<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Super Grover}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|137<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jack Black}}<br />
|Singer and actor.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|138<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Rand Paul}}<br />
|Republican senator from Kentucky; member of the {{w|Tea Party movement}}. Ran in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|139<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Paul Ryan}}<br />
|Republican representative from Wisconsin. Served as Speaker of the House at the time this comic was published.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|140<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Paul Simon}}<br />
|Singer.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|141<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ron Paul}}<br />
|Libertarian politician. Known for running for president in many elections and mentioned often in xkcd.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|142<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Hughes}}<br />
|Director famed for a series of 1980s coming of age movies including "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", and "Pretty in Pink"<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|143<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Langston Hughes}}<br />
|Writer.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|144<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John F. Kennedy}}<br />
|35th president of the United States. Known for his public assassination during a parade; subject to many conspiracy theories.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|145<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Little Richard}}<br />
|Early rock and roll singer known for his energetic and flamboyant style on songs such as "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally"<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|146<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Rich Little}}<br />
|American comedian known for his impressions of numerous celebrities and public figures<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|147<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Martha Stewart}}<br />
|American TV personality. Convicted of insider trading in 2004.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|148<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Yo Yo Ma}}<br />
|Chinese cellist. Known for winning 18 Grammys; considered a child prodigy.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|149<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ma Bell}}<br />
|Aka Bell System, the system of companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by AT&T, which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|150<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Grover Cleveland Alexander}}<br />
|Pitcher named after the president; co-holds record for most wins by a pitcher in the National League (374).<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|151<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Grover Cleveland}}<br />
|22nd and 24th president of the United States. Notably the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|152<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jack White}}<br />
|American musician. Part of {{w|The White Stripes}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|153<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jack Ryan}}<br />
|Fictional character in the novels by Tom Clancy. Portrayed in Movies by Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Affleck<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|154<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Debby Ryan}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|155<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Carly Simon}}<br />
|Singer. "You're so vain" referenced on xkcd in <insert here><br />
|<br />
|<br />
|156<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Carly Hughes}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|157<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Charles Evans Hughes}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|158<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Williams}}<br />
|American composer. Known for many famous movie soundtracks, including Star Wars and Harry Potter.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|159<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Little John}}<br />
|Fictional character in the Robin Hood Legend. Known for great stature and strength.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|160<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Stuart Little}}<br />
|Fictional character by E. B. White, an intelligent mouse.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|161<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Potter Stewart}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|162<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kristen Stewart}}<br />
|American actress. Known for {{w|Twilight (2008 film)|Twilight}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|163<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kristen Bell}}<br />
|American actress, known for various romantic comedies.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|164<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Kristen Hooks}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|165<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Alexander Graham Bell}}<br />
|Scottish inventor, credited with inventing the telephone.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|166<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Franklin Graham}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|167<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Lloyd Alexander}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|168<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Meg White}}<br />
|Drummer. The other half of The White Stripes.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|169<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Meg Ryan}}<br />
|American actress. Known for 'WHen Harry met Sally'<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|170<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Debbie Reynolds}}<br />
|American singer and actress.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|171<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Reynolds}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|172<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Carly Fiorina}}<br />
|Former CEO of {{w|Hewlett-Packard}}. Ran for president in the 2016 Republican primaries.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|173<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Grace Lee Boggs}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|174<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Wade Boggs}}<br />
|American baseball player. Played with the {{w|Boston Red Sox}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|175<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|William Safire}}<br />
|Writer and publicist.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|176<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Prince William}}<br />
|Member of the British Royal Family. Second in line for succession to the throne.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|177<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Little Prince}}<br />
|One of the main characters of ''{{w|The Little Prince}}'', a novella by {{w|Antoine de Saint-Exupéry}}. The Little Prince has previously appeared in [[618: Asteroid]], as well as [http://what-if.xkcd.com/68 article 68] of ''[[what if?]]''.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|178<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harry Potter}}<br />
|Fictional main character in the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|179<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Potter}}<br />
|Fictional character, father of Harry Potter.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|180<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Hook}}<br />
|Fictional character from 'Peter Pan'<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|181<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Dean}}<br />
|American actor and teen icon. Starred in the films "Rebel Without a Cause", "East of Eden" and "Giant" before his sudden death in a car accident<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|182<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Aretha Franklin}}<br />
|Soul singer, first woman to be inducted into the hall of fame and performer of Respect.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|183<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Frank Lloyd Wright}}<br />
|American architect, known for his unconventional buildings such as Fallingwater and the Guggenheim.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|184<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Barry White}}<br />
|American soul singer known for his deep, rich voice on songs such as "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|185<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Walter White}}<br />
|Main character from the TV show {{w|Breaking Bad}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|186<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Walt Whitman}}<br />
|American poet. {{w|Walt Whitman Bridge|A bridge in Philadelphia}} was named after him.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|187<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Kelly}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|188<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Grace Lee}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|189<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Nancy Grace}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|190<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Garnet_(Steven_Universe)|Garnet}}<br />
|A {{w|garnet}} is a gem stone and the two names around here are {{w|William Safire}} (almost {{w|Sapphire}}) and {{w|Jack Ruby}} as in {{w|Ruby}}. But it is not just used because they are all {{w|gemstones}}. It is instead a reference to the character {{w|Garnet_(Steven_Universe)|Garnet}} in the cartoon {{w|Steven Universe}}. She is a "fusion" formed by two gems: Ruby and Sapphire, hence the legal connection in the Name Dominoes... Randall has previously made references to this universe in [[1608: Hoverboard]]. (See [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/39/1608_1031x1095y_Steven_Universe_family_and_ice_cream_prediction.png this] and [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/f/fa/1608_1077x1109y_Darth_Vaders_talks_about_Steven_Universe_on_the_bridge_Megan_adjust_antenna.png this] image from that comic).<br />
|{{w|William Safire}} <br> {{w|Jack Ruby}}<br />
|Last-Only (as a Sapphire gem stone) <br>Last-Only (as a Ruby gem stone) <br> Both used to fuse together to Garnet.<br />
|191<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Prince (musician)|Prince}}<br />
|American musician, part of the Rock and Roll hall of fame. He died two years prior to the release of this comic.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|192<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Prince Fielder}}<br />
|Professional baseball player who retired in 2016 after playing for the Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, and Texas Rangers.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|193<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Prince Harry}}<br />
|Member of the British royal family. Fifth in line for succession to the throne.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|194<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harry Styles}}<br />
|Singer from One Direction.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|195<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Dean}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|196<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Benjamin Franklin}}<br />
|One of the founding fathers of the United States. Credited with "discovering" electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|197<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harrold Lloyd}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|198<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harrold Ford}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|199<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Betty White}}<br />
|American comedian. Known as the only surviving member of the {{w|The Golden Girls}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|200<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Meg Whitman}}<br />
|American business executive, former CEO of eBay and Hewlett Packard, unsuccessful candidate for California governor in 2010<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|201<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Christine Todd Whitman}}<br />
|Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, then served as Director of the Environmental Protection Agency under {{w|George W. Bush}} from 2001 to 2003.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|202<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Megyn Kelly}}<br />
|American TV news anchor. Worked for Fox news until 2017, then switched to NBC.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|203<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Grace Kelly}}<br />
|American actress and Princess of Monaco<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|204<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Grace Jones}}<br />
|Singer and actress.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|205<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jack Nicholson}}<br />
|Actor who has appeared in many films from ''{{w|The Shining (film)}}'' (as Jack Torrance) to ''{{w|Batman (1989 film)}}'' (as the Joker) to ''{{w|A Few Good Men}}'' (as Colonel Jessup).<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|206<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jack Ruby}}<br />
|Jack Ruby is known for shooting and killing {{w|Lee Harvey Oswald}} on national television. Oswald was the prime suspect in the {{w|assassination of John F. Kennedy}}. Ruby's involvement is the subject of many conspiracy theories.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|207<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jack Russel}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|208<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harry Fielder}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|209<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harry Truman}}<br />
|33rd president of the United States. Known for authorizing the use of atomic weapons against Japan at the end of World War 2.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|210<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harry Jon Benjamin}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|211<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Edward}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|212<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Benjamin Harrison}}<br />
|23rd president of the United States<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|213<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Harrison Ford}}<br />
|American actor. Known for playing Han Solo in the ''{{w|Star Wars}}'' films and the titular character in the ''{{w|Indiana Jones}}'' films.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|214<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Henry Ford}}<br />
|Founder of the {{w|Ford Motor Company}}. Credited with inventing the assembly line.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|215<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Betty Ford}}<br />
|Wife of Gerald Ford, 38th president of the United States.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|216<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Betty Friedan}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|217<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Christie}}<br />
|Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. Ran for president in the Republican primaries in 2016.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|218<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Pratt}}<br />
|American actor. Known for {{w|Parks and Recreation}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|219<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Maggie Grace}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|220<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Grace Hopper}}<br />
|American computer scientist. Helped develop the {{w|COBOL}} programming language.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|221<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Russel Crowe}}<br />
|Australian actor. (s/be Russell?)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|222<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Russ Smith}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|223<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Smith}}<br />
|John Smith is the most common name in the United States. {{w|John Smith|See Wikipedia}} for a list of people this may refer to.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|224<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Justin Long}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|225<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Bel Edwards}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|226<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Candy}}<br />
|Canadian comedian and actor. Known for {{w|Spaceballs}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|227<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Henry}}<br />
|American folk hero<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|228<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Henry James}}<br />
|American author known for works including "The Turn of the Screw" and "The Portrait of a Lady"<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|229<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Bill James}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|230<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Cooper}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|231<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Hemsworth}}<br />
|Actor.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|232<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Chris Evans}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|233<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Topher Grace}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|234<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Van Morrison}}<br />
|Irish singer best known for the song "Brown Eyed Girl"<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|235<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Sheryl Crow}}<br />
|American singer and session musician<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|236<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Sheryl Sandberg}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|237<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Cameron Crow}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|238<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Long John Silver}}<br />
|Fictional antagonist from {{w|Treasure Island}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|239<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Olivia Newton John}}<br />
|American actress. Known for ''Grease''<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|240<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Huey Long}}<br />
|Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932, and US Senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. Known for his "Share Our Wealth" proposal to address the hard economic conditions of the Great Depression.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|241<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Edwards}}<br />
|American politician. Democratic candidate for presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|242<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Candy Crowley}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|243<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Alestier Crowley}}<br />
|English occultist and author<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|244<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Fenimore Cooper}}<br />
|Author of ''{{w|The Last of the Mohicans}}''.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|245<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Cook}}<br />
|18th century British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.<br />
|Alistair Cooke <br>Cokie Roberts <br>Alistair Cookie <br>James Fenimore Cooper<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br> Last-First (approximate) <br> Last-Last (approximate) <br> First-First<br />
|246<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Robert Frost}}<br />
|19th century American poet, named Poet Laureate of Vermont in 1922 by the Vermont State League of Women's Clubs, and in 1961 by the Vermont State legislature<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|247<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Bob Evans}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|248<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Evan Tayler Jones}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|249<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Van Jones}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|250<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|James Cameron}}<br />
|American director. Known for {{w|Terminator}} and {{w|Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|251<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Cam Newton}}<br />
|Quarterback for the {{w|Carolina Panthers}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|252<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Cameron Diaz}}<br />
|American actress. Voiced Fiona in {{w|Shrek}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|253<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Huey Newton}}<br />
|Co-founder of the Black Panthers.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|254<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Huey Lewis}}<br />
|Lead singer for the band Huey Lewis and the News.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|255<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Lewis}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|256<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Jenny Lewis}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|257<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ryan Lewis}}<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|258<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Burt Reynolds}}<br />
|American actor. Known for a wide variety of western and/or action films.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|259<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Alistair Cooke}}<br />
|Name misspelled Alistiar Cooke in the comic.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|260<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Monsterpiece_Theater#Alistair_Cookie|Alistair Cookie}}<br />
|A parody of Alistair Cooke "played" by Cookie Monster in the Sesame Street sketch "Monsterpiece Theatre" in the 1980s, a parody of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre".<br />
|James Cook <br>Alastair Reynolds<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br>First-First (approximate)<br />
|261<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Cokie Roberts}}<br />
|National Public Radio (NPR) political correspondent known for her recurring segment "Ask Cokie" in which she answers listener submitted questions.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|262<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Roberts}}<br />
|Current Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court at the time of the comic's publication.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|263<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Robert Johnson}}<br />
|Delta blues guitar legend.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|264<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Robert E. Lee}}<br />
|Confederate general during the {{w|American Civil War}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|265<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tommy Lee}}<br />
|Drummer for the rock band Mötley Crüe<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|266<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Tommy Lee Jones}}<br />
|American actor known for 'The Fugitive'<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|267<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Etta James|Etta James (2)}}<br />
|Used first time in 86<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|268<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|John Oliver}}<br />
|American talk show host. Known for {{w|Last Week Tonight}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|269<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Ryan Reynolds}}<br />
|Canadian actor. Known for several romantic comedies, and {{w|Deadpool (film)|Deadpool}}.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|270<br />
|-<br />
|{{w|Alastair Reynolds}}<br />
|SF writer.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|271<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:[This comic a large grid, 27 units wide and 35 units high, with 271 black "domino" tiles. On each tile there is a name written with white text. The grid is arranged so that each touching side corresponds with the first or last name of another person (or at least there are some kind of relation between the names on the end of connecting tiles). Some of the domino tiles are rotated 90, 180 or 270 degrees so the text is either to be read down, up-side down or up. The names on the tiles are listed here below in approximate reading order, thus staring top left and moving over the grid from left to right and down. Each swipe left to right covers approximately tiles that are within a span of one standard tile in height. To be exact it lists the names in the order they were numbered in this [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/1970-_Name_Dominoes_-_The_large_image_with_numbers.jpg image]. One name is used twice, Etta James.]<br />
:Christian Campbell<br />
:Neve Campbell<br />
:Joe McCarthy<br />
:Eugene McCarthy<br />
:Gene Vincent<br />
:Gene Kelly<br />
:Kate Hudson<br />
:Rock Hudson<br />
:Gordon Brown<br />
:James Brown<br />
:Jon Brown<br />
:John Howard<br />
:Columbo<br />
:Chris Columbus<br />
:Christopher Columbus<br />
:Naomi Campbell<br />
:Joseph Campbell<br />
:Joseph Smith<br />
:Frank Vincent<br />
:John Kelly<br />
:Katherine Johnson<br />
:The Rock<br />
:Chris Rock<br />
:Chris Isaac<br />
:James Newton Howard<br />
:John Wayne<br />
:Howard Stern<br />
:Howard Hunt<br />
:Chris Hughes<br />
:Naomi Watts<br />
:Naomi Klein<br />
:Kevin Kline<br />
:Francis Bacon<br />
:Francis Drake<br />
:Lyndon Johnson<br />
:Oscar the Grouch<br />
:Oscar Isaac<br />
:Isaac Hayes<br />
:Isaac Newton<br />
:Wayne Newton<br />
:Wayne Knight<br />
:Helen Hunt<br />
:Helen Hughes<br />
:James Watt (Steam)<br />
:James Watt (Interior)<br />
:Kevin Costner<br />
:Kevin Bacon<br />
:Kevin Love<br />
:Lisa Frank<br />
:Frank Drake<br />
:Drake<br />
:Oscar de la Renta<br />
:Oscar de la Hoya<br />
:Sean Hayes<br />
:Wallace Shawn<br />
:Wayne Howard<br />
:Wayne Brady<br />
:James Brady<br />
:Tom Brady<br />
:Helen Thomas<br />
:Tom Hanks<br />
:Hank Aaron<br />
:Aaron Carter<br />
:Stephen James<br />
:Will Smith<br />
:Kevin Smith<br />
:Kein James<br />
:Garfield<br />
:James Garfield<br />
:Warren Buffett<br />
:Jimmy Buffett<br />
:Warren Beatty<br />
:Elizabeth Warren<br />
:Earl Warren<br />
:Eliabeth Kolbert<br />
:Stephen Colbert<br />
:George Wallace<br />
:Charles Wallace<br />
:James Monroe<br />
:Marilyn Monroe<br />
:Hank Williams<br />
:William C. Williams<br />
:Steve Harvey<br />
:Domino Harvey<br />
:Harvey Milk<br />
:James Saint James<br />
:Etta James<br />
:Jim Jones<br />
:James Earl Jones<br />
:Charlie Parker<br />
:Ray Parker Jr.<br />
:Ray Charles<br />
:Charles Manson<br />
:Marilyn Manson<br />
:Robin Williams<br />
:Billy D. Williams<br />
:Will Wright<br />
:Fats Domino<br />
:Bill Clinton<br />
:Jimmy John<br />
:Tom Jones<br />
:Tommy John<br />
:Quincy Jones<br />
:James Earl Ray<br />
:Man Ray<br />
:Rachel Ray<br />
:Ray Allen<br />
:Tim Allen<br />
:Tim Cook<br />
:Tim Howard<br />
:Robin Wright<br />
:Wilbur Wright<br />
:Fatty Arbuckle<br />
:Fat Joe<br />
:George Clinton<br />
:John Kerry<br />
:Kerry Washington<br />
:John Irving<br />
:John Quincy Adams<br />
:John Adams<br />
:Amy Adams<br />
:Aimee Mann<br />
:Superman<br />
:Batman<br />
:Ayn Rand<br />
:Lily Allen<br />
:Paul Allen<br />
:Ron Howard<br />
:Howard Hughes<br />
:Joe Kennedy<br />
:George Bush<br />
:George Wasington<br />
:Wasington Irving<br />
:Martha Wasington<br />
:Ma Rainey<br />
:Jack Ma<br />
:Super Grover<br />
:Jack Black<br />
:Rand Paul<br />
:Paul Ryan<br />
:Paul Simon<br />
:Ron Paul<br />
:John Hughes<br />
:Langston Hughes<br />
:John F. Kennedy<br />
:Little Richard<br />
:Rich Little<br />
:Martha Stewart<br />
:Yo Yo Ma<br />
:Ma Bell<br />
:Grover Cleveland Alexander<br />
:Grover Cleveland<br />
:Jack White<br />
:Jack Ryan<br />
:Debby Ryan<br />
:Carly Simon<br />
:Carly Hughes<br />
:Charles Evans Hughes<br />
:John Williams<br />
:Little John<br />
:Stuart Little<br />
:Potter Stewart<br />
:Kristen Stewart<br />
:Kristen Bell<br />
:Kristen Hooks<br />
:Alexander Graham Bell<br />
:Franklin Graham<br />
:Lloyd Alexander<br />
:Meg White<br />
:Meg ryan<br />
:Debbie Reynolds<br />
:John Reynolds<br />
:Carly Fiorina<br />
:Grace Lee Boggs<br />
:Wade Boggs<br />
:William Safire<br />
:Prince William<br />
:Little Prince<br />
:Harry Potter<br />
:James Potter<br />
:James Hook<br />
:James Dean<br />
:Aretha Franklin<br />
:Frank Lloyd Wright<br />
:Barry White<br />
:Walter White<br />
:Walt Whitman<br />
:John Kelly<br />
:Grace Lee<br />
:Nancy Grace<br />
:Garnet<br />
:Prince<br />
:Prince Fielder<br />
:Prince Harry<br />
:Harry Styles<br />
:John Dean<br />
:Benjamin Franklin<br />
:Harrold Lloyd<br />
:Harrold Ford<br />
:Betty White<br />
:Meg Whitman<br />
:Christine Todd Whitman<br />
:Megyn Kelly<br />
:Grace Kelly<br />
:Grace Jones<br />
:Jack Nicholson<br />
:Jack Ruby<br />
:Jack Russel<br />
:Harry Fielder<br />
:Harry Trueman<br />
:Harry Jon Benjamin<br />
:John Edward<br />
:Benjamin Harrison<br />
:Harrison Ford<br />
:Henry Ford<br />
:Betty Ford<br />
:Betty Friedan<br />
:Chris Christie<br />
:Chris Pratt<br />
:Maggie Grace<br />
:Grace Hopper<br />
:Russel Crowe<br />
:Russ Smith<br />
:John Smith<br />
:Justin Long<br />
:John Bel Edwards<br />
:John Candy<br />
:John Henry<br />
:Henry James<br />
:Bill James<br />
:Chirs Cooper<br />
:Chirs Hemsworth<br />
:Chirs Evans<br />
:Topher Grace<br />
:Van Morrison<br />
:Sheryl Crow<br />
:Sheryl Sandberg<br />
:Cameron Crow<br />
:Long John Silver<br />
:Olivia Newton John<br />
:Huey long<br />
:John Edwards<br />
:Candy Crowley<br />
:Alestier Crowley<br />
:James Fenimore Cooper<br />
:James Cook<br />
:Robert Frost<br />
:Bob Evans<br />
:Evan Tayler Jones<br />
:Van Jones<br />
:James Cameron<br />
:Cam Newton<br />
:Cameron Diaz<br />
:Huey Newton<br />
:Huey Lewis<br />
:John Lewis<br />
:Jenny Lewis<br />
:Ryan Lewis<br />
:Burt Reynolds<br />
:Alistiar Cooke<br />
:Alistair Cookie<br />
:Cokie Roberts<br />
:John Roberts<br />
:Robert Johnson<br />
:Robert E. Lee<br />
:Tommy Lee<br />
:Tommy Lee Jones<br />
:Etta James<br />
:John Oliver<br />
:Ryan Reynolds<br />
:Alastair Reynolds<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Large drawings]]</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1970:_Name_Dominoes&diff=154786Talk:1970: Name Dominoes2018-03-23T14:29:51Z<p>Imperpay: </p>
<hr />
<div><!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--><br />
This comic is a long list of names overlayed onto black domino tiles, arranged so that each touching side corresponds with the first or last name of another person. This will be difficult to transcribe. {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.53}}<br />
:Would it be possible to use a fixed width format and try and transcribe like an actual scrabble board? I think there are unicode characters for upside-down and rotated text that we could use for the flipped names. But yes, definitely will be difficult.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.211.244|172.68.211.244]] 18:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::The transcript doesn't need upside-down and rotated text. It should be enough to mention that some tiles are. A first draft with all names would be good, but even mentioning all the connections would be to complex to read. Think about the reader... --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:39, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::How about using a fixed-width font and then representing each domino with an alphanumeric character, and then put a list below of what each character corresponds to? Even though there are more dominoes than characters, duplicate uses of a character (but referring to different names) can be easily disambiguated if we assign each character in order, left to right and top to bottom. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.70.71|172.69.70.71]] 20:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
:::I have made an image where each tile is numbered from left to right. See this [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/1970-_Name_Dominoes_-_The_large_image_with_numbers.jpg picture] and [[1970: Name Dominoes/Numbered images|Explanation]] here. I have created a transcript from this list. And the table --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:01, 22 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
:::Do you think that maybe Randall created this comic just to screw with this wiki? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.53|108.162.221.53]] 14:51, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Martin<br />
::::Certainly, a real explanation to Randall's ''Name Dominoes'' doesn't need a numbered list or one of these overwhelming tables. A short overview (a small bullet list would be the best) to the rules implied by the image and shown in the title text would be a proper explanation. Everything else is trivia at maximum. And I can't resist: This table, whenever it will be completely filled, tops them all...--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:30, 22 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I see alternative names or nicknames sometimes matches together. But is the Chris Pratt/Chris Evans match with Topher Grace a bit of a stretch? I see that Topher is a variation of Chris'''topher''' and Chis is a shortening of the same. But I guess it must be an acceptable move if Randle put it in the comic. Maybe it’s worth special points or something. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.70|162.158.38.70]] 18:14, 21 March 2018 (UTC)TheStewart<br />
<br />
Walter White/Walt Whitman is a reference to Breaking Bad. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.101|172.68.58.101]] 18:20, 21 March 2018 (UTC)Pat<br />
<br />
And Garnet being used to join Ruby and Saffire is clever...<br />
[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.64|141.101.98.64]] 18:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
This is a reference to Steven Universe where there is a character, Garnet, who is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire.<br />
<br />
"The title text spells out a rule that a player may only place a tile if they know who that person is" is mention as a reason for it not to be a fixed set of dominos, But I took it to mean you can't use "Jim Jones" unless you know of Jim Jones; as in, I could challenge your use of it by asking "okay who is he?". Maybe saying "oh, he went to school with me" or something wouldn't count, anymore than "crft is too a word!" works in Scrabble [[User:Afbach|Afbach]] ([[User talk:Afbach|talk]]) 19:36, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Harrison Ford is from Blade Runner I believe. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.124|162.158.2.124]] 23:07, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Ma Bell is interesting... is it the only one that not an actual person? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System<br />
<br />
Alistair Cooke's name is misspelt "Alistiar"; it'll be interesting to see if this gets corrected (as errors sometimes do). Not to be confused with Alistair Cookie, a short distance away! -- [[User:Peregrine|Peregrine]] ([[User talk:Peregrine|talk]]) 08:45, 22 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I think maybe Chris Isaac (Canadian football quarterback) was intended to be Chris Isaak (American rock musician, singer, and actor). Can we just assume that was a mistake?<br />
[[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 14:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Maybe a table? ==<br />
<br />
I think a table would be a useful and user-friendly way of capturing everything that's going on here. Forgive this feeble attempt. I am not an html coder. I know enough to go steal something somewhere and see if it works: <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!style="width:15%"|Domino<br />
!style="width:35%"|Notability<br />
!style="width:15%"|Connections<br />
!style="width:35%"|Mode<br />
|-<br />
|Alistair Cookie<br />
|A parody of Alistair Cooke "played" by Cookie Monster in the Sesame Street sketch "Monsterpiece Theatre" in the 1980s, a parody of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre".<br />
|James Cook <br><br />
Alastair Reynolds<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
First-First (approximate)<br />
|-<br />
|James Cook<br />
|18th century British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.<br />
|Alistair Cooke <br><br />
Cokie Roberts <br><br />
Alistair Cookie <br><br />
James Fenimore Cooper<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
Last-First (approximate) <br><br />
Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
First-First<br />
|-<br />
|Chris Columbus<br />
|Film director and screenwriter.<br />
|Columbo <br><br />
Christopher Columbus <br><br />
Chris Hughes<br />
|Last-Only (approximate) <br><br />
First-First (approximate) <i>and</i> Last-Last <br><br />
First-First<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 23:27, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
: I like that idea. Especially because it would mean that all those links are removed from the transcript. As far as I understand transcripts (at least in this wiki) they don't inlcude any meta information (e.g. nothing that is not shown in the comic). [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 08:48, 22 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::Yes great example of a table, and yes no wiki links in transcript. I will put this in the explanation now. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:42, 22 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
:::I have now made an image where each tile is numbered from left to right. See this [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/7/73/1970-_Name_Dominoes_-_The_large_image_with_numbers.jpg picture] and [[1970: Name Dominoes/Numbered images|Explanation]] here. I have created a transcript from this list. And the table --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:01, 22 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
And I thought Alistair Cookie was a reference to the fact Alistair Cook is batting like a muppet. <br />
BTW I have WG Grace and Grace Darling in my hand - but i cannot seem to fit them in.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/141.101.107.204|141.101.107.204]] 17:16, 22 March 2018 (UT<br />
<br />
I've created a table/spreadsheet of all the numbers, with a,b,c meaning first, second, and third part of name, respectively, [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tcxq1Hp3-AcGFrfkv3xRD1wNg9OO12gpN05D1H42-sU/edit?usp=sharing here]. Also, Van Jones is missing in both the numbered image and all text on this page. [[User:Ad1217|Ad1217]] ([[User talk:Ad1217|talk]]) 04:40, 23 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::::Cool. Thanks for pointing out that I failed to number the tile after 249. I'm now correcting the image adding this as number 250 and correcting the numbers after that. Ad1217 could you update your spreadsheet, and would it be OK to add a picture of this to the explanation? (I spotted an error in your spreadsheet as well, as you have used 286b rather than 268b at the bottom, but correctly used 268a --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:55, 23 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Does anyone else see the connection between "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" and the fact that this picture is basically a network/graph? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.136|108.162.249.136]] 05:25, 23 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
: I was disappointed that Kevin Bacon isn't a clear node of some sort. The joke could have been extended by adding a [[wikipedia:Erdős_number|Paul Erdős]] tile. --[[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 08:41, 23 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I wonder if Randall used an algorithm to build this. It would be interesting to generate dense domino packings automatically. Does he have an official github account or similar? --[[User:Quantum7|Quantum7]] ([[User talk:Quantum7|talk]]) 08:42, 23 March 2018 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1970:_Name_Dominoes&diff=154649Talk:1970: Name Dominoes2018-03-22T00:11:21Z<p>Imperpay: /* Maybe a table? */</p>
<hr />
<div><!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--><br />
This comic is a long list of names overlayed onto black domino tiles, arranged so that each touching side corresponds with the first or last name of another person. This will be difficult to transcribe. {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.53}}<br />
:Would it be possible to use a fixed width format and try and transcribe like an actual scrabble board? I think there are unicode characters for upside-down and rotated text that we could use for the flipped names. But yes, definitely will be difficult.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.211.244|172.68.211.244]] 18:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::The transcript doesn't need upside-down and rotated text. It should be enough to mention that some tiles are. A first draft with all names would be good, but even mentioning all the connections would be to complex to read. Think about the reader... --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:39, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::How about using a fixed-width font and then representing each domino with an alphanumeric character, and then put a list below of what each character corresponds to? Even though there are more dominoes than characters, duplicate uses of a character (but referring to different names) can be easily disambiguated if we assign each character in order, left to right and top to bottom. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.70.71|172.69.70.71]] 20:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I see alternative names or nicknames sometimes matches together. But is the Chris Pratt/Chris Evans match with Topher Grace a bit of a stretch? I see that Topher is a variation of Chris'''topher''' and Chis is a shortening of the same. But I guess it must be an acceptable move if Randle put it in the comic. Maybe it’s worth special points or something. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.70|162.158.38.70]] 18:14, 21 March 2018 (UTC)TheStewart<br />
<br />
Walter White/Walt Whitman is a reference to Breaking Bad. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.101|172.68.58.101]] 18:20, 21 March 2018 (UTC)Pat<br />
<br />
And Garnet being used to join Ruby and Saffire is clever...<br />
[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.64|141.101.98.64]] 18:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
This is a reference to Steven Universe where there is a character, Garnet, who is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire.<br />
<br />
"The title text spells out a rule that a player may only place a tile if they know who that person is" is mention as a reason for it not to be a fixed set of dominos, But I took it to mean you can't use "Jim Jones" unless you know of Jim Jones; as in, I could challenge your use of it by asking "okay who is he?". Maybe saying "oh, he went to school with me" or something wouldn't count, anymore than "crft is too a word!" works in Scrabble [[User:Afbach|Afbach]] ([[User talk:Afbach|talk]]) 19:36, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Harrison Ford is from Blade Runner I believe. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.124|162.158.2.124]] 23:07, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Maybe a table? ==<br />
<br />
I think a table would be a useful and user-friendly way of capturing everything that's going on here. Forgive this feeble attempt. I am not an html coder. I know enough to go steal something somewhere and see if it works: <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!style="width:15%"|Domino<br />
!style="width:35%"|Notability<br />
!style="width:15%"|Connections<br />
!style="width:35%"|Mode<br />
|-<br />
|Alistair Cookie<br />
|A parody of Alistair Cooke "played" by Cookie Monster in the Sesame Street sketch "Monsterpiece Theatre" in the 1980s, a parody of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre".<br />
|James Cook <br><br />
Alastair Reynolds<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
First-First (approximate)<br />
|-<br />
|James Cook<br />
|18th century British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.<br />
|Alistair Cooke <br><br />
Cokie Roberts <br><br />
Alistair Cookie <br><br />
James Fenimore Cooper<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
Last-First (approximate) <br><br />
Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
First-First<br />
|-<br />
|Chris Columbus<br />
|Film director and screenwriter.<br />
|Columbo <br><br />
Christopher Columbus <br><br />
Chris Hughes<br />
|Last-Only (approximate) <br><br />
First-First (approximate) <i>and</i> Last-Last <br><br />
First-First<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 23:27, 21 March 2018 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1970:_Name_Dominoes&diff=154641Talk:1970: Name Dominoes2018-03-21T23:27:09Z<p>Imperpay: /* Maybe a table? */ new section</p>
<hr />
<div><!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.--><br />
This comic is a long list of names overlayed onto black domino tiles, arranged so that each touching side corresponds with the first or last name of another person. This will be difficult to transcribe. {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.53}}<br />
:Would it be possible to use a fixed width format and try and transcribe like an actual scrabble board? I think there are unicode characters for upside-down and rotated text that we could use for the flipped names. But yes, definitely will be difficult.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.211.244|172.68.211.244]] 18:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::The transcript doesn't need upside-down and rotated text. It should be enough to mention that some tiles are. A first draft with all names would be good, but even mentioning all the connections would be to complex to read. Think about the reader... --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:39, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
::How about using a fixed-width font and then representing each domino with an alphanumeric character, and then put a list below of what each character corresponds to? Even though there are more dominoes than characters, duplicate uses of a character (but referring to different names) can be easily disambiguated if we assign each character in order, left to right and top to bottom. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.70.71|172.69.70.71]] 20:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I see alternative names or nicknames sometimes matches together. But is the Chris Pratt/Chris Evans match with Topher Grace a bit of a stretch? I see that Topher is a variation of Chris'''topher''' and Chis is a shortening of the same. But I guess it must be an acceptable move if Randle put it in the comic. Maybe it’s worth special points or something. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.70|162.158.38.70]] 18:14, 21 March 2018 (UTC)TheStewart<br />
<br />
Walter White/Walt Whitman is a reference to Breaking Bad. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.101|172.68.58.101]] 18:20, 21 March 2018 (UTC)Pat<br />
<br />
And Garnet being used to join Ruby and Saffire is clever...<br />
[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.64|141.101.98.64]] 18:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
This is a reference to Steven Universe where there is a character, Garnet, who is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire.<br />
<br />
"The title text spells out a rule that a player may only place a tile if they know who that person is" is mention as a reason for it not to be a fixed set of dominos, But I took it to mean you can't use "Jim Jones" unless you know of Jim Jones; as in, I could challenge your use of it by asking "okay who is he?". Maybe saying "oh, he went to school with me" or something wouldn't count, anymore than "crft is too a word!" works in Scrabble [[User:Afbach|Afbach]] ([[User talk:Afbach|talk]]) 19:36, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Harrison Ford is from Blade Runner I believe. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.124|162.158.2.124]] 23:07, 21 March 2018 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Maybe a table? ==<br />
<br />
I think a table would be a useful and user-friendly way of capturing everything that's going on here. Forgive this feeble attempt. I am not an html coder. I know enough to go steal something somewhere and see if it works: <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!style="width:15%"|Domino<br />
!style="width:35%"|Notability<br />
!style="width:15%"|Connections<br />
!style="width:35%"|Mode<br />
|-<br />
|Alistair Cookie<br />
|A parody of Alistair Cooke "played" by Cookie Monster in the Sesame Street sketch "Monsterpiece Theatre" in the 1980s, a parody of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre".<br />
|James Cook <br><br />
Alastair Reynolds<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
First-First (approximate)<br />
|-<br />
|James Cook<br />
|18th century British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.<br />
|Alistair Cooke <br><br />
Cokie Roberts <br><br />
Alistair Cookie <br><br />
James Fenimore Cooper<br />
|Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
Last-First (approximate) <br><br />
Last-Last (approximate) <br><br />
First-First<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 23:27, 21 March 2018 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:xkcd_Phones&diff=145385Category:xkcd Phones2017-09-13T18:26:20Z<p>Imperpay: Now 2017 has seen two phone releases, not just 2014. Edited accordingly, attempting to leave the original flavor of the point.</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Randall]] has introduced a series of new and "improved" [[xkcd]]-branded {{w|smartphone}}s which parodies common smartphone specs by attributing absurd or useless features to a fictional phone.<br />
<br />
The first comic was released in May 2014, and the second towards the end of 2014 just after Christmas. Since then they have been released with less than a year between them, so one comic has been released in every year from 2015 to 2017. The years 2014 and 2017 are the only years to have seen the release of two xkcd phones. In that way it probably follows well in the footstep of the real smartphone producing companies.<br />
<br />
Another comic simply called Phone ([[1802: Phone]]) was also released in 2017, but apart from the title and that it is about smartphones there is no relation.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Comic series]]<br />
[[Category:Smartphones]]</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1774:_Adjective_Foods&diff=132678Talk:1774: Adjective Foods2016-12-19T16:42:48Z<p>Imperpay: </p>
<hr />
<div><!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~--><br />
Nobody has edited since I started this? Wow. I must have been ''early''. It's been {{#expr:{{#time:i}}}} minutes! [[User:Jacky720|That's right, Jacky720 just signed this]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jacky720|contribs]]) 15:23, 19 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
:Nice to see somebody helping out! Thanks! [[User:Jacky720|That's right, Jacky720 just signed this]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jacky720|contribs]]) 15:41, 19 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
This looks just like all the food in my supermarket. I'm not even sure if I'm buying food or the best adjectives sometimes XD [[User:Fox Holmes|While most people have mass on Saturday, I have mine relative to my inertia]] ([[User talk:Fox Holmes|talk]]) 15:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
The can of Lite is a real thing, of course, and trademarked, which is why other beers can call themselves "light" but not "Lite". [https://www.beeradvocate.com/mag/2627/lite-beer-vs-light-beer/ This article has more on that.] [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.4|162.158.75.4]] 16:05, 19 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Italics is totally fine, and Glazed and Lite ''are'' in white. [[User:Jacky720|That's right, Jacky720 just signed this]] ([[User talk:Jacky720|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jacky720|contribs]]) 16:13, 19 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
:First off, I would like to apologize, my reason for changing the text to normal could be seen as inflammatory, and that was not my intention. As for my actual reason, it's that while you may be able to read it fine, many people can't read text like that. In the comic, it's large and capital letters, but the wiki has small text. Adding all that guff makes it hard to read. For example, my mom has awful eyes, and text like that would be virtually unreadable to her. It was not for my sake, but rather for the sake of others. [[User:Fox Holmes|While most people have mass on Saturday, I have mine relative to my inertia]] ([[User talk:Fox Holmes|talk]]) 16:18, 19 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Is "artisenal" even a word? Is that a purposeful misspelling of "artisanal"? (Like "lite" is a purposeful misspelling of "light".) [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 16:42, 19 December 2016 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1193:_Externalities&diff=988821193: Externalities2015-07-31T17:53:57Z<p>Imperpay: /* Fifth Panel */ Adding info about "smoot".--~~~~</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1193<br />
| date = April 1, 2013<br />
| title = Externalities<br />
| image = externalities.png<br />
| titletext = Mouse over words and things to see where they come from.<br />
}}<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|An extent of explanations of some of the name references in panel 5 would help}}<br />
This comic isn't a static image - even the title text changes depending on which part of the image you're hovering over. It presented a competition for students to see who could come closest to break a {{w|Skein (hash function)|Skein hash}} but also an aid appeal for the Wikimedia Foundation.<br />
<br />
There are quite a few references in the comic to {{w|Baidu}}. Baidu is a large Chinese Internet services company that employs thousands, whose shares are publicly traded on world stock exchanges. It's the predominant Internet search provider of China, and is sometimes called the "Google of China". It offers parallels for the Chinese market of many of the services that Google provides and offers its own encyclopedic wiki with a restricted edit policy to serve as a replacement for Wikipedia. Wikipedia reports that Baidu's search engine handled 56% of Chinese internet search queries in Q4 2010. and that in October 2012, Baidu ranked 5th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings. Given that explanation for the Baidu references in #1193 is still solicited for explainxkcd, Baidu apparently is not well known yet among savvy XKCD readers.<br />
Baidu Search results reputedly follow the censorship dictates of the Chinese authorities, causing it to return censored responses to searches for politically sensitive terms like "Tianamen Square massacre" or "Falun Gong" when executed by web browsers that are connected via Chinese ISPs. When you execute such searches via Baidu in the US, the top links returned for these topics do seem to reflect Chinese government sensibilities although the uncensored English language Wikipedia articles for these topics are listed high in the query results. Baidu's reputation for censorship provides background for Megan's reply "but nothing about Tianamen Square" in response to the "Come and find your future at Baidu" employment enticement of panel one and also provides the background to understand the "It takes great minds to stifle other great minds" slogan of the second panel.<br />
<br />
__TOC__<br />
<br />
The blank regions in the above image are dynamically generated from various sources.<br />
*The university that is being recruited changes depending on which university is winning the hash finding competition in the fifth panel.<br />
*The company doing the recruiting is randomly selected from a pool of companies. It was formerly the first NASDAQ-100 company mentioned on a varying Wikipedia page.<br />
*The text in the second panel may vary: See [[1193: Externalities#Second Panel|this section]].<br />
*The text in the third panel may vary: See [[1193: Externalities#Third Panel|this section]].<br />
*The text in the fourth panel may vary: See [[1193: Externalities#Fourth Panel|this section]].<br />
*The text in the fifth panel [[1193: Externalities#Fifth Panel|changes]], depending on which university is currently in third place in a hash finding competition. Clicking on the panel takes you to [http://almamater.xkcd.com/ a webpage] where people can enter their school's domain name and hash data, and ranks schools on how close their students can come to matching a Skein 1024 1024 hash value.<br />
*The text in the top half of the sixth panel may vary. See [[1193: Externalities#Sixth Panel|this section]]. The second half of the panel is always the same.<br />
*The last panel varies with the amount donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via [https://donate.wikimedia.org/?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=xkcd_april1 this link]. For past images, see [[1193: Externalities#Seventh Panel|this section]].<br />
<br />
===Hashing Competition===<br />
For the two days until comic 1194 appeared, a competition was underway to see who could come closest to breaking a {{w|Skein (hash function)|Skein hash}}. The first text line of the first panel contains a link to http://almamater.xkcd.com. This page contained the text:<br />
<br />
:Currently looking for Skein 1024 1024 input matching<br />
<pre>5b4da95f5fa08280fc9879df44f418c8f9f12ba424b7757de02bbdfbae0d4c4fdf9317c80cc5fe04c6429073466cf29706b8c25999ddd2f6540d4475cc977b87f4757be023f19b8f4035d7722886b78869826de916a79cf9c94cc79cd4347d24b567aa3e2390a573a373a48a5e676640c79cc70197e1c5e7f902fb53ca1858b6</pre><br />
<br />
On this page, users were invited to enter "Your school's domain name" — presumably intended to be their college alma mater. (At least in the beginning, only a few top-level domains were accepted.) If the user entered an acceptable domain (by xkcd's rules, which apparently changed during the 48 hours of the competition), he could then enter data values one at a time. For each data value entered, xkcd returned a hash value and the number of bits by which it differed from the target value. The object was to achieve the lowest possible number of differing bits, ideally zero.<br />
<br />
A ranking page showed the lowest value achieved for each domain name entered, but not the data that achieved it. The first name on the list was substituted in various panels, and the third-place school showed in panel five. No data values were reported by xkcd, but various results were posted by users of the xkcd forums and on other websites, leading to copycat submissions, so that occasionally large numbers of institutions would show the same moderately low value.<br />
<br />
After the end of the contest, the data submission page vanished, replaced by the final list of rankings, which shows that Carnegie Mellon University achieved the best score with 384 bits incorrect out of 1024. The rankings only show a few hundred out of the several thousand domains submitted&mdash;presumably Randall chose to chop the copycat submissions off the end of the list, retaining only honestly obtained results.<br />
<br />
===First Panel===<br />
In some cases, Megan's reply seems to correspond to the company.<br />
{| class="wikitable table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Have you applied to [company] yet?<br />
:Megan: The recruiter hasn't emailed me back in over three minutes.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Have you applied to [company] yet?<br />
:Megan: The recruiter hasn't emailed me back in over an hour!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?<br />
:Megan: I'm not that good at math.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?<br />
:Megan: What do they even do?<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?<br />
:Megan: I don't like monopolies.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?<br />
:Megan: Only in my darkest moments.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Be part of the Apple experience!<br />
:Megan: I'm not really a fan of turtlenecks.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Come work at Microsoft!<br />
:Megan: I only came to this tech talk for the xbox giveaway.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Y U No Work Yahoo?<br />
:Megan: I like working from home!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Become a partner at Starbucks!<br />
:Megan: But green's not my colour.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Come work in the Amazon!<br />
:Megan: I don't have to actually move to South America, do I?<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?<br />
:Megan: Not after that presentation.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Thought about working for Intel?<br />
:Megan: I'm not that great at division.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Dude, you should work at Dell!<br />
:Megan: That catchphrase is so old.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Ahoy, carnegie melonites!<br />
:Have you thought of a career at [company]?<br />
:Megan: Not after that presentation.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Have you looked for a job at Kraft Foods?<br />
:Megan: I'm allergic to sugar<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:How about working for Whole Foods?<br />
:Megan: Could I afford the food if I did?<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Come work at EBay!<br />
:Megan: Maybe if they made a good bid.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students!<br />
:Come work for Activision... er... Blizzard... er...<br />
:Megan: Activision Blizzard?<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Hey, [university] students! <nowiki>|</nowiki> Ahoy. Carnegie Melonites!<br />
:Come find your future at Baidu!<br />
:Megan: But nothing about Tiananmen Square.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Second Panel===<br />
The text in the second panel is based on the company in the first panel:<br />
{| class="wikitable table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:When the Singularity happens, it will happen here.<br />
:Ponytail: [Company] has outgrown us.<br />
:Men: It is time.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Think of ways to make things smaller and smaller!<br />
:Ponytail: I'm worried mine is too big.<br />
:Men: Yeahhh<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Think of ways to make things smaller and smaller!<br />
:Ponytail: But will it blend?<br />
:Men: Yeahhh<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:You'll be part of a dynamic research team envisioning the future.<br />
:Ponytail: It probably looks cool.<br />
:Men: Yeahhh<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:You'll be creating the future of commerce platforms!<br />
:Ponytail: More recommendations.<br />
:Men: Yep.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:You'll be an insignificant cog in our giant machine<br />
:Ponytail: We should improve Notepad<br />
:Men: Nah<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We can't tell you what you'll be working on.<br />
:Ponytail: [Confidential]<br />
:Men: [Redacted]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:You'll be an insignificant cog in our giant machine<br />
:Ponytail: Needs more Bob.<br />
:Men: Nah<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:You'll help set the future of the company<br />
:Ponytail: Wait. You hired a college grad as the CFO?<br />
:Men: Yeahhh<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:At Qualcomm, we know you're born mobile.<br />
:Ponytail: Born mobile!<br />
:Men: Texting!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Short or tall, we've got a grande job for you!<br />
:Ponytail: How many job openings are there?<br />
:Men: Ele-venti or so.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:You'll help direct the future of nutrition<br />
:Ponytail: Microwaveable toast<br />
:Men: Delicious<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Help us find and provide the best healthy, local, and sustainable products.<br />
:Ponytail: Hey guys, how about kale cookies?<br />
:Men: Sounds great!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We're the Classmates.com to Facebook's Craigslist.<br />
:Ponytail: Maybe we should use game theory.<br />
:Men: Why Bother?<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Whatever. Come create the future of gaming!<br />
:Ponytail: Call of Duty 14.<br />
:Men: That's genius!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:It takes great minds to stifle other great minds.<br />
:Ponytail: Let's block Canada<br />
:Men: Sounds good.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Third Panel===<br />
{| class="wikitable table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We're a convenient four hour drive from New York City (15,000 hours by Roomba)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Only a short commuter flight away!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Travel to us by Roomba, we're *that* close!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We're so close you can get to us by Roomba.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Free Roomba rides every morning while you have coffee.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Your Roomba comes in black & slate, or white & silver<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Just a short Roomba ride up the coast, try not to fall off.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We know what everyday life is like for your generation:<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Fourth Panel===<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Our recruiting team is on the lookup for promising young [university] graduates.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We hired a new recruiting startup to help us hire [university] students.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We borrowed the botanical gardens' net to catch promising recruits.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We prefer to recruit from [university] students, of course.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Our recruiters are on the hunt for unaware [university] graduates.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Fifth Panel===<br />
{| class="wikitable table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Or students from [university], if they're clever with their applications<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Possibly [university] grads, if their form-filling startup works out.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Or [university] graduates, provided any of them manage to fill out the application correctly.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Or [university] graduates, if they manage to fill out the application correctly.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
The text in the form varies independently of the text at the top, sometimes related to the organization in 3rd place:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
!Organization<br />
!Name<br />
!Email<br />
!Education<br />
!(Explanation)<br />
|-<br />
|MIT<br />
|Oliver Smoot<br />
|pgp encrypted<br />
|have you ever really looked at the fourier<br />
|As an undergrad at MIT in 1948, Smoot was used to measure the Harvard Bridge during a fraternity prank. This led to the introduction of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot "smoot"] as a non-standard unit of length.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Wheeeee<br />
|ford.com<br />
|stealing lunches from startups<br />
|-<br />
|CMU<br />
|leeroy jenkins<br />
|me@car<br />
|I can cut up melons<br />
| Le(e)roy Jenkins is an internet meme originating from a 2006 'Let's Play' video of World of Warcraft<br />
|-<br />
|CMU<br />
|pittsburgh<br />
|me@car<br />
|I can cut up melons<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|SEGMENTATION FAULT<br />
|save trees<br />
|Contra dancing.<br />
|-<br />
|Cambridge<br />
|I'm applying<br />
|cam.gov<br />
|on going problems with birds<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|certainly<br />
|elephant<br />
|An excellent year in the Sahara<br />
|-<br />
|Stanford<br />
|Stanford<br />
|ford.com<br />
|Stealing lunches from startups<br />
|-<br />
|Stanford<br />
|Yes Please<br />
|@twitter<br />
|Are you Stanford?<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Applying<br />
|For a job<br />
|I would like to work at you<br />
|-<br />
|St.Olaf<br />
|Me olaf<br />
|You Helga<br />
|Hunting wooly mammoths<br />
|-<br />
|Ohio State<br />
|Oh!<br />
|IO<br />
|O HAI O<br />
| A joke on the pronunciation of Ohio.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|FOLLOWBACK<br />
|TOTALLY.EDU.US<br />
|CONVENIENT US DOMAIN REDIRECTS<br />
| .edu is a website suffix mostly used for (American) university websites.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Mancher<br />
|Outlook<br />
|Made a collage out of macaroni<br />
|-<br />
|Stanford<br />
|Yes Please<br />
|ford.com<br />
|Are you Stanford?<br />
|-<br />
|Michigan<br />
|ANN<br />
|SOUTH DETROIT<br />
|HUNT LIKE A WOLVERINE<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|christopher<br />
|POBox 12532<br />
|p.s. ill find my frog<br />
|PO Box 12532 is located at Pyramid Lake in Nevada.<br />
|-<br />
|Oxford<br />
|Bond, James<br />
|Righto<br />
|We're better than Cambridge<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Which one<br />
|Forget it<br />
|Riding the L all night long<br />
|-<br />
|Kit<br />
|Kat<br />
|Oh dear<br />
|Something something sleep<br />
|-<br />
|Google<br />
|My G+ handle?<br />
|Any<br />
|I'm feeling lucky<br />
|G+ stands for Google+, Googles social network. I'm feeling lucky is the second option under the searchbar on Google.<br />
|-<br />
|UIC<br />
|Which one<br />
|Forget it<br />
|Riding the L all night long<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|MY JOB NOW<br />
|@<br />
|SAVE DOCUMENT AND SEND<br />
| Could be Randall saying most jobs are just sending e-mails (@).<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Sixth Panel===<br />
{| class="wikitable table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:At [company], you'll work at a scale you won't find anywhere else<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Explore the depths of expensive and undocumented tools!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:At Apple, we believe in pushing the boundary of perfection.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:At Microsoft, you just need to relax and embrace the machine<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Yahoo management aren't just suits. We code too!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:At [company], you'll have the opportinity to work on cutting-edge projects.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:At Amazon, you'll be shaving the most cutting-edge of yaks.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:You get to bid first on any auction, and use other experimental tools!<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:At QUALCOMM, Device driver code quality is job #1<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:Make use of our powerful in-house game creation tools.<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
:We're even working on some experimental biotechnology<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Seventh Panel===<br />
{| class="wikitable table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog1.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog2.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog3.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog4.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog5.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog6.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog7.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog8.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog9.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog10.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog11.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog12.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog13.png]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:externality-dog14.png]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Title Text==<br />
The title text documents the different sources of data in the comic. The different title texts are:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable table-padding"<br />
|-<br />
!Comic region<br />
!Title text<br />
|-<br />
|Most of the comic, during the competition.||Mouse over words and things to see where they come from.<br />
|-<br />
|Most of the comic, after the competition ended||This comic went up on April 1st, and the panels changed throughout the day in response to readers doing things like breaking hashes, edited a rapidly-shuffling set of target Wikipedia articles, and donating to Wikimedia Foundation. (The vandalism is over now and CMU won the hashing contest.)<br />
|-<br />
|Most of the text in the first panel.||Happy April 1st, Everyone!<br />
|-<br />
|Fifth panel.||[University] has the third best hash. See the full standings at http://almamater.xkcd.com/best.csv<br />
|-<br />
|Last panel.||The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the wikimedia foundation via this link. Currently at [amount donated]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:[The comic is dynamically generated from multiple sources.]<br />
<br />
:[First panel [[1193: Externalities#First Panel|transcript varies.]]]<br />
<br />
:[Second panel [[1193: Externalities#Second Panel|transcript varies.]]]<br />
<br />
:[Third panel [[1193: Externalities#Third Panel|transcript varies.]]]<br />
:[Ponytail riding on a roomba.]<br />
<br />
:[Fourth panel [[1193: Externalities#Fourth Panel|transcript varies.]]]<br />
:[A group of people waiting outside a door. One of them is holding a large net.]<br />
<br />
:Or [university] graduates, provided any of them manage to fill out the application correctly.<br />
:Name: [random]<br />
:Email: [Third place university]<br />
<br />
:[Sixth panel [[1193: Externalities#Sixth Panel|transcript varies.]]]<br />
:Cueball: What does "make dog" do?<br />
:Off-panel: Experimental dog generator. Don't click on it; the default size isn't set, so-<br />
:'''*click*'''<br />
<br />
:''KZZZT''<br />
:BIP<br />
:Off-screen: Uh-oh.<br />
<br />
:[Last panel's [[1193: Externalities#Seventh Panel|transcript varies.]]]<br />
<br />
==Final Transcript==<br />
:This is a dynamic image with several different mouse-overs. Mouse-overs for specific panels are included here.<br />
<br />
:Ahoy, Carnegie Melonites! Come find your future at Baidu.<br />
:[Megan with black hair stands in a blank void.]<br />
:Megan: But nothing about Tiananmen Square.<br />
:[Mouse-over: Happy April 1st, everyone!]<br />
:[There is a link on this panel to almamater.xkcd.com.]<br />
<br />
:It takes great minds to stifle other great minds.<br />
:[Ponytail sits at a desk with two other people.]<br />
:Ponytail: Let's block Canada<br />
:Others: Sounds good.<br />
<br />
:We're a convenient four hour drive from New York City (15,000 hours by Roomba.)<br />
:[Ponytail crouches on a moving Roomba with a steaming mug of coffee in one hand and a smartphone in the other.]<br />
:''whirrrrrrr''<br />
<br />
:Our recruiters are on the hunt for unaware CMU graduates<br />
:[Megan approaches three students with a giant net as they leave a classroom.]<br />
<br />
:Or UIC graduates, provied any of them manage to fill out the application correctly.<br />
:[A website application which reads:]<br />
::Name: WHICH ONE<br />
::Email: FORGET IT<br />
::Education: RIDING THE L ALL NIGHT LONG<br />
:[Mouse-over: uic has the third best hash. See the full standings at http: almamater.xkcd.com best.csv]<br />
<br />
:At Baidu, Inc., you'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects.<br />
:[Cueball sits at a computer.]<br />
:Cueball: What does "make dog" do?<br />
:Off-screen person: Experimental dog generator. Don't click on it; the default size isn't set, so-<br />
:'''*click*'''<br />
<br />
:[Cueball stares at the screen.]<br />
: ''KZZZT'' *bip*<br />
:Off-screen: Uh oh.<br />
<br />
:[A giant dog looks down at the desk where the computer once was, Cueball in the chair stares up at it.]<br />
:[Mouse-over: The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the Wikimedia Foundation via this link. Currently at $51135.33.]<br />
:[A graphic showing two sliders and a dog. Next to the dog with arrows pointing to it are a thermometer graphic and the equation d(x)=R.] CAREERS@BAIDU, INC. PLAY GOD WITH DOGS (TM)<br />
:There are arrows over and under "GOD" and "DOG" indicating that you switch the letters.<br />
:The previous three panels link to the special Wikimedia fundraiser page.<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]<br />
[[Category:Dynamic comics]]<br />
[[Category:April fools' comics]]</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1349:_Shouldn%27t_Be_Hard&diff=63826Talk:1349: Shouldn't Be Hard2014-04-01T20:16:29Z<p>Imperpay: Fixing my misspelling, and indenting my comment.</p>
<hr />
<div>Carefully organized sand eh? I believe this is a callback to [http://xkcd.com/505/ this comic]( and the silicone of course but...). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.240|108.162.210.240]] 14:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC) <br />
: I Don't think this is a call back -- just a common reference to that computer chips are based on Silicon which have been arranged into electrical circuits [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]])<br />
: Not a callback, not even a little bit. That comic did not reference the manufacturing process of computer chips at all, but instead use rocks as a sort of physical computer. The "carefully organized rocks" in that comic could have easily been carefully organized coconuts and the meaning of the comic would not have changed a bit. Also silicone is not the same as silicon. Silicone is a synthetic polymer made out of silicon and would be entirely unsuitable for building computer chips. Silicone = caulk, implants. Silicon = quartz, sand, computer chips. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.65|108.162.221.65]] 16:04, 31 March 2014 (UTC)<br />
: That comic was also the first thing I thought of, but alas I do not think this comic is referencing that one, because in that comic he is organizing rocks, not sand. [[User:Sparx|Sparx]] ([[User talk:Sparx|talk]]) 03:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
Repeat after me: the CPU is not the computer. "The core of the CPU is mostly made out of sand" is less cringeworthy. As the "computer" itself, it's mostly made of plastic and metal. Even the CPU's plastic casing is a large part of it in volume. [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 14:21, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: When I buy a box of [http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/00/98/00/00/0000980000071_500X500.jpg Ferrero Rocher Hazelnut chocolate], and I say, these made out of chocolate, would that statement be "cringeworthy" if I forgot to mention the hazelnut interior, or the tin foil that surrounds the chocolate, or the paper cup that goes around the tin foil, or the plastic container that it comes in? Even the cardboard setting in the box is a large part of it in volume. (Moral: when we describe something, we only really care about the active components that allow it to do whatever it is supposed to do, not the packaging it comes in.) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.65|108.162.221.65]] 15:32, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
It has changed! The title is now "Lorenz" and each time you open a tab there seems to be a random choice between 3 different comics, two of them with clickable options [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: And it seems the (multiple!) followups to each comic are being created by user suggestion! [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 14:50, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
What Jesuspetry said! Checking just now, the title of the comic is "Lorenz" (a reference to Edward Norton Lorenz?) and the title text is "Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story." [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 14:53, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Wait, no, we're looking at number 1350 on the main xkcd page, not 1349. Time for a new page here, forthwith! [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 15:00, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: You're right. What has confused me is that 1349 flashes in the screen before 1350 is carried over by the browser [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 15:26, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, and from my connection at work, I can't see the "real" 1350 at all. All I see is the image from 1349, with a new title and new title text. I'll have to wait until I get home. (I believe you'll see what I see if you use the old unix interface from a previous April 1, at uni.xkcd.com, and display 1350. [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 16:41, 1 April 2014 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1349:_Shouldn%27t_Be_Hard&diff=63779Talk:1349: Shouldn't Be Hard2014-04-01T16:41:37Z<p>Imperpay: </p>
<hr />
<div>Carefully organized sand eh? I believe this is a callback to [http://xkcd.com/505/ this comic]( and the silicone of course but...). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.240|108.162.210.240]] 14:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC) <br />
: I Don't think this is a call back -- just a common reference to that computer chips are based on Silicon which have been arranged into electrical circuits [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]])<br />
: Not a callback, not even a little bit. That comic did not reference the manufacturing process of computer chips at all, but instead use rocks as a sort of physical computer. The "carefully organized rocks" in that comic could have easily been carefully organized coconuts and the meaning of the comic would not have changed a bit. Also silicone is not the same as silicon. Silicone is a synthetic polymer made out of silicon and would be entirely unsuitable for building computer chips. Silicone = caulk, implants. Silicon = quartz, sand, computer chips. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.65|108.162.221.65]] 16:04, 31 March 2014 (UTC)<br />
: That comic was also the first thing I thought of, but alas I do not think this comic is referencing that one, because in that comic he is organizing rocks, not sand. [[User:Sparx|Sparx]] ([[User talk:Sparx|talk]]) 03:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
Repeat after me: the CPU is not the computer. "The core of the CPU is mostly made out of sand" is less cringeworthy. As the "computer" itself, it's mostly made of plastic and metal. Even the CPU's plastic casing is a large part of it in volume. [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 14:21, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: When I buy a box of [http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/00/98/00/00/0000980000071_500X500.jpg Ferrero Rocher Hazelnut chocolate], and I say, these made out of chocolate, would that statement be "cringeworthy" if I forgot to mention the hazelnut interior, or the tin foil that surrounds the chocolate, or the paper cup that goes around the tin foil, or the plastic container that it comes in? Even the cardboard setting in the box is a large part of it in volume. (Moral: when we describe something, we only really care about the active components that allow it to do whatever it is supposed to do, not the packaging it comes in.) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.65|108.162.221.65]] 15:32, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
It has changed! The title is now "Lorenz" and each time you open a tab there seems to be a random choice between 3 different comics, two of them with clickable options [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: And it seems the (multiple!) followups to each comic are being created by user suggestion! [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 14:50, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
What Jesuptry said! Checking just now, the title of the comic is "Lorenz" (a reference to Edward Norton Lorenz?) and the title text is "Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story." [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 14:53, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
Wait, no, we're looking at number 1350 on the main xkcd page, not 1349. Time for a new page here, forthwith! [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 15:00, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: You're right. What has confused me is that 1349 flashes in the screen before 1350 is carried over by the browser [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 15:26, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, and from my connection at work, I can't see the "real" 1350 at all. All I see is the image from 1349, with a new title and new title text. I'll have to wait until I get home. (I believe you'll see what I see if you use the old unix interface from a previous April 1, at uni.xkcd.com, and display 1350. [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 16:41, 1 April 2014 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1349:_Shouldn%27t_Be_Hard&diff=63747Talk:1349: Shouldn't Be Hard2014-04-01T15:00:28Z<p>Imperpay: </p>
<hr />
<div>Carefully organized sand eh? I believe this is a callback to [http://xkcd.com/505/ this comic]( and the silicone of course but...). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.240|108.162.210.240]] 14:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC) <br />
: I Don't think this is a call back -- just a common reference to that computer chips are based on Silicon which have been arranged into electrical circuits [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]])<br />
: Not a callback, not even a little bit. That comic did not reference the manufacturing process of computer chips at all, but instead use rocks as a sort of physical computer. The "carefully organized rocks" in that comic could have easily been carefully organized coconuts and the meaning of the comic would not have changed a bit. Also silicone is not the same as silicon. Silicone is a synthetic polymer made out of silicon and would be entirely unsuitable for building computer chips. Silicone = caulk, implants. Silicon = quartz, sand, computer chips. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.65|108.162.221.65]] 16:04, 31 March 2014 (UTC)<br />
: That comic was also the first thing I thought of, but alas I do not think this comic is referencing that one, because in that comic he is organizing rocks, not sand. [[User:Sparx|Sparx]] ([[User talk:Sparx|talk]]) 03:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
Repeat after me: the CPU is not the computer. "The core of the CPU is mostly made out of sand" is less cringeworthy. As the "computer" itself, it's mostly made of plastic and metal. Even the CPU's plastic casing is a large part of it in volume. [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 14:21, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
It has changed! The title is now "Lorenz" and each time you open a tab there seems to be a random choice between 3 different comics, two of them with clickable options [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: And it seems the (multiple!) followups to each comic are being created by user suggestion! [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 14:50, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
What Jesuptry said! Checking just now, the title of the comic is "Lorenz" (a reference to Edward Norton Lorenz?) and the title text is "Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story." [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 14:53, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
Wait, no, we're looking at number 1350 on the main xkcd page, not 1349. Time for a new page here, forthwith! [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 15:00, 1 April 2014 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1349:_Shouldn%27t_Be_Hard&diff=63746Talk:1349: Shouldn't Be Hard2014-04-01T14:53:23Z<p>Imperpay: </p>
<hr />
<div>Carefully organized sand eh? I believe this is a callback to [http://xkcd.com/505/ this comic]( and the silicone of course but...). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.240|108.162.210.240]] 14:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC) <br />
: I Don't think this is a call back -- just a common reference to that computer chips are based on Silicon which have been arranged into electrical circuits [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]])<br />
: Not a callback, not even a little bit. That comic did not reference the manufacturing process of computer chips at all, but instead use rocks as a sort of physical computer. The "carefully organized rocks" in that comic could have easily been carefully organized coconuts and the meaning of the comic would not have changed a bit. Also silicone is not the same as silicon. Silicone is a synthetic polymer made out of silicon and would be entirely unsuitable for building computer chips. Silicone = caulk, implants. Silicon = quartz, sand, computer chips. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.65|108.162.221.65]] 16:04, 31 March 2014 (UTC)<br />
: That comic was also the first thing I thought of, but alas I do not think this comic is referencing that one, because in that comic he is organizing rocks, not sand. [[User:Sparx|Sparx]] ([[User talk:Sparx|talk]]) 03:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
Repeat after me: the CPU is not the computer. "The core of the CPU is mostly made out of sand" is less cringeworthy. As the "computer" itself, it's mostly made of plastic and metal. Even the CPU's plastic casing is a large part of it in volume. [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 14:21, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
It has changed! The title is now "Lorenz" and each time you open a tab there seems to be a random choice between 3 different comics, two of them with clickable options [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 14:41, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
: And it seems the (multiple!) followups to each comic are being created by user suggestion! [[User:Jesuspetry|Jesuspetry]] ([[User talk:Jesuspetry|talk]]) 14:50, 1 April 2014 (UTC)<br />
<br />
What Jesuptry said! Checking just now, the title of the comic is "Lorenz" (a reference to Edward Norton Lorenz?) and the title text is "Every choice, no matter how small, begins a new story." [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 14:53, 1 April 2014 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1274:_Open_Letter&diff=50152Talk:1274: Open Letter2013-10-07T16:29:39Z<p>Imperpay: </p>
<hr />
<div>If you believe in a shadow government, it seems likely that you would actually see a goverment shutdown as part of the conspiracy. {{unsigned ip|108.13.108.44}}<br />
<br />
:Is this another shadow fact? http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1272 --[[User:MauroVan|MauroVan]] ([[User talk:MauroVan|talk]]) 09:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I guess Randal is only right as long there is only ONE group involved ;-). --[[User:DaB.|DaB.]] ([[User talk:DaB.|talk]]) 11:01, 7 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Randall knows ''exactly'' which group is in control, but has been forced by them to leave their name completely off of the aforementioned list. [[Special:Contributions/178.98.212.190|178.98.212.190]] 13:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
I removed the words 'Self-proclaimed' from the description of Scientology. It's so vague to be meaningless. Aren't most religions and churches self-proclaimed? Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc all started with somebody claiming secret knowledge. It should either be applied to all religions, or none.[[Special:Contributions/154.20.80.41|154.20.80.41]] 13:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Is "Sincerely, A Concerned Citizen" really a Half-Life 2 reference? The phrase is generic enough that it actually appears before Half-Life 2 was released ([http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x372352 example]). --[[Special:Contributions/75.119.250.35|75.119.250.35]] 15:21, 7 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Wow! The actual group secretly running the government is so powerful they had themselves removed from the explanation table, apparently! (There's no Trilateral Commission entry right now.) [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 16:29, 7 October 2013 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1253:_Exoplanet_Names&diff=469621253: Exoplanet Names2013-08-19T18:19:45Z<p>Imperpay: Moustache --> Mustache (Yes, both are acceptable in English, but "Mustache" is what's used by Randall in this comic.) ~~~~</p>
<hr />
<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1253<br />
| date = August 19, 2013<br />
| title = Exoplanet Names<br />
| image = exoplanet names.png<br />
| titletext = If you have any ideas, I hear you can send them to <nowiki>iaupublic@iap.fr</nowiki>.<br />
}}<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|1253: Exoplanet Names}}<br />
<br />
On the 14th of August, the {{w|International Astronomical Union}} [http://www.iau.org/science/news/179/ issued a document] about public naming of astronomical objects. It stated, "IAU fully supports the involvement of the general public, whether directly or through an independent organised vote, in the naming of planetary satellites, newly discovered planets, and their host stars.". It also contained, amongst other things, guidelines that suggested names should meet. These include stipulations such as "16 characters or less", "preferably one word", "not too similar to an existing name of an astronomical object" and "be respectful of intellectual property". If we go down the list, we can see that many of Randall's suggestions do indeed violate the guidelines. Which is probably part of the joke.<br />
<br />
And yes, the document also states that suggestions may be sent to the email mentioned in the title text.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Star !! Planet !! Suggested Name !! Explanation<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=7 | {{w|Gliese 667 C}} || {{w|Gliese 667 Cb|b}} || Space Planet || A very unoriginal name: Every planet is in space.<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 667 Cc|c}} || PILF || Pun of {{w|MILF}}, i.e. ''Planet I'd Like to Fuck''. Planet c is a relatively hot planet, within the habitable zone.<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 667 Cd|d}} || A Star ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 667 Ce|e}} || e'); DROP TABLE PLANETS;-- || A reference to {{w|SQL injection}}, riffing off of [[327|comic 327]], which featured a boy named <code>[[Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--]]</code>. The idea here is that the IAU would enter the name into their system and promptly lose all of their data pertaining to planets. Note that Planet e is located in the habitable zone of the star system.<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 667 Cf|f}} || Blogosphere || rowspan = 2 | Weird ''{{w|blog}}''-related terms are a recurring theme in xkcd. See, for instance, [[181|comic 181]].<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 667 Cg|g}} || Blogodrome<br />
|-<br />
| [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/gj_667c_h/ h] || Earth ||<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=5 | {{w|Tau Ceti}} || [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/tau_cet_b/ b] || Sid Meier's Tau Ceti B || This refers to the game {{w|Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri}}.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/tau_cet_c/ c] || Giant Dog Planet ||<br />
|-<br />
| [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/tau_cet_d/ d] || Tiny Dog Planet ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Tau Ceti e|e}} || Phil Plainet || {{w|Phil Plait}}.<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Tau Ceti f|f}} || Unicode Snowman || The Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm <span style="font-size:200%">&#x2603;</span>] is a reference to the planet's estimated surface temperature of -40°C. <br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 832}} || {{w|Gliese 832 b|b}} || Asshole Jupiter<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=6 | {{w|Gliese 581}} || {{w|Gliese 581 b|b}} || Waist-deep Cats ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 581 c|c}} || Planet #14 ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 581 d|d}} || Ballderaan || A {{w|wikt:balls|crude pun}} on the planet {{w|Alderaan}} from the ''{{w|Star Wars}}'' universe.<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 581 e|e}} || {{w|Eternia}} Prime || A reference to the main planet of ''{{w|Masters of the Universe}}''.<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 581 f|f}} || Taupe Mars || A reference to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars).<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 581 g|g}} || Jelly Filled Planet ||<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=2 | {{w|Epsilon Eridani}} || {{w|Epsilon Eridani b|b}} || Skydot ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Epsilon Eridani c#Planet_c|c}} || Laser Noises ||<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=2 | {{w|Gliese 176}} || {{w|Gliese 176 b|b}} || {{w|Fictional universe of Avatar|Pandora}} || The fictional planet in James Cameron's ''{{w|Avatar (film)|Avatar}}''. Also the Planet used in {{w|Borderlands (video game)| Borderlands Games}}.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/gj_176_c/ c] || Pantera ||<br />
|-<br />
| Kepler-61 || {{w|Kepler-61b|b}} || Goldenpalace.com || A Gambling Site.<br />
|-<br />
! colspan=4 | ...<br />
|-<br />
| style="white-space:nowrap;" rowspan=3 | {{w|Upsilon Andromedae}} || {{w|Upsilon Andromedae c|c}} || Stampy ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Upsilon Andromedae d|d}} || Moonchild ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Upsilon Andromedae e|e}} || Ham Sphere ||<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=3 | {{w|82 G. Eridani|HD 20794}} || [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/hd_20794_b/ b] || Cosmic Sands || style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS', 'Comic Sans';" | A {{w|pun}} on the name of the font {{w|Comic Sans}}. (<span style="font-family:papyrus">See also: [[590|590: Papyrus]].</span>)<br />
|-<br />
| [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/hd_20794_c/ c] || {{w|Legoland}} || {{w|Legoland}} is a chain of {{w|Theme_park|Theme Parks}} owned by the {{w|Lego Group}} and run by British company {{w|Merlin Entertainments}}.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/hd_20794_d/ d] || Planet with Arms ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|HD 85512}} || {{w|HD 85512 b|b}} || Lax Morality ||<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=6 | {{w|HD 40307}} || {{w|HD 40307 b|b}} || Good Planet ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|HD 40307 c|c}} || ProblemLand ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|HD 40307 d|d}} || Slickle ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|HD 40307 e|e}} || Spare Parts ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|HD 40307 f|f}} || New Jersey VI ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|HD 40307 g|g}} || How Do I Join the IAU ||<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=3 | {{w|Gliese 163}} || [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/gj_163_b/ b] || Neil Tyson's Mustache ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Gliese 163 c|c}} || help@gmail.com ||<br />
|-<br />
| [http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/gj_163_d/ d] || Hair-Covered Planet<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Pi Mensae}} || {{w|Pi Mensae b|b}} || Moon Holder ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|HD 189733}} || {{w|HD 189733 b|b}} || Permadeath ||<br />
|-<br />
| {{w|Kepler-22}} || {{w|Kepler-22 b|b}} || Blue Ivy || Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of musicians {{w|Beyoncé}} and {{w|Jay-Z}}.<br />
|-<br />
| Kepler-3284 || b || Blainsley ||<br />
|-<br />
| Kepler-3255 || b || Unicorn Thresher ||<br />
|-<br />
| Kepler-2418 || b || Spherical {{w|Discworld}} || A creation of British author {{w|Terry Pratchett|Sir Terry Pratchett}}, {{w|The Discworld}} is the fictional setting for his {{w|Discworld}} series of books and comprises of a large disc supported by four elephants themselves standing on top of a turtle flying through space.<br />
|-<br />
| Kepler-1686 || b || style="white-space:nowrap;" | Emergency Backup Earth ||<br />
|-<br />
| Kepler-3010 || b || Feeeoooooooop ||<br />
|-<br />
| Kepler-4742 || b || Liz ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
:August 2013:<br />
:The International Astronomical Union decides to start naming exoplanets, and&mdash;for the first time ever&mdash;asks for suggestions from the general public.<br />
:They immediately regret this decision.<br />
:Cueball: Can't you filter out the worst ones?<br />
:''The rightmost person'': This is '''''after''''' the filter!<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Astronomy]]</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Imperpay&diff=30771User:Imperpay2013-03-22T18:33:15Z<p>Imperpay: Created page with "Move along. Nothing to see here."</p>
<hr />
<div>Move along. Nothing to see here.</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=30748Talk:Main Page2013-03-22T13:59:19Z<p>Imperpay: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{notice|This page is for discussion of the [[Main Page]] itself. Other issues probably belong at the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]].}}<br />
<br />
As a new user, I think the first page is very important. So I thought why not begin a discussion here what to have on the first page every user visits.--[[User:Relic|Relic]] ([[User talk:Relic|talk]]) 05:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT) <small>Re-signed here - b/c I broke the comment in two when I added the "List of comics" header. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 23:01, 2 August 2012 (EDT)</small><br />
<br />
==List of comics==<br />
I was thinking of having a quick link to the list of comics that is explained. Right know, it took me a while to even see any of them. Eventually I found the "List All Pages" (found it in Special pages) where I could find the comics that have been explained. What do you think?<br />
:A category tag will do that for you automatically. Having a list of comics indexed by its number would be a little different.--[[User:Relic|Relic]] ([[User talk:Relic|talk]]) 05:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::Sounds like a great list - I ''think'' it'd have to be manually maintained until/unless we get someone who knows how to make a bot update it. Categories will be useful, but they only work if someone added the category to the page in the first place. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:21, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::A (somewhat) related question - should [[:Category:Comics]] be sorted alphabetically or by comic number? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:43, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::I think [[:Category:Comics]] should be sorted by comic number. If you are looking for a specific comic, you will use the search field. Is there a way to make that happen? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 08:11, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::They are two different functions. For the former, instead of adding <nowiki>[[Category:Comics]]</nowiki>, add, say, <nowiki>[[Category:Comics|1]]</nowiki>. For the second, we can create redirects. Normally, I'd say just make sure the search term was in the article text, but since numbers are going to be use for other purposes than just comic titles, it may be better to create [[1]] and [[Comic 1]] as redirects to the relevant articles right off the bat. --08:24, 1 August 2012 (EDT) <br />
::::::We could also have a comic-list template on the Main Page, I suppose, or perhaps two - one for number and one for name? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:54, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::::Here's what I was thinking of for that: {{tl|Comics navbox}} Thoughts? ''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup><br />
:(outdent) It's ugly, but a sortable wikitable [[User:SurturZ/sandbox|(click here for example)]] could be used as a checklist to see what has been uploaded and what hasn't. What's the project namespace here, anyway (analogue of "WP:")? --[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 03:04, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:OK, I've found a way to get all the titles of the comics, so I was confident enough to create<br/ ><br/ ><big>[[Explain XKCD:Checklist]]</big> <br/ ><br/>which can be used to fill in the gaps. --[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 03:41, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::I'm liking the checklist! That should do quite nicely as a "tool for editors". (I'm linking to it at the Community Portal). We still need the "template for readers." Did you think {{tl|Comics navbox}} was on the right track or should we do something else for that? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 20:09, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::Better idea - I'm throwing it directly onto the Main Page. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 20:10, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
==Admin list==<br />
You can find a system-accurate list of admins [{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}} here], so that might good to share, along with the manual list. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:13, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:Added to page. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:10, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::That's exactly what I wanted, but couldn't find the auto page for it. I knew it was somewhere. I don't see any reason to keep the link to the manual page. Do you? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 08:11, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::Not unless you want it. I'll remove it. Should I add the similar link for 'crats or is that unnecessary at this point? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:25, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::To be honest, I have no idea what the Burecrats role does. Might be unnecessary now but helpful in the future? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 11:16, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::Bureaucrats can turn other users into administrators (or indeed, other bureaucrats). That privilege isn't available to ordinary administrators. I'd keep it to yourself for the time being. :-) --[[User:Yirba|Yirba]] ([[User talk:Yirba|talk]]) 17:39, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::::You can actually see a technical list of which rights each group confers at [[Special:ListGroupRights]]. As the wiki grows, you might want to spin off a few, such as the ability to grant rollbacker and autopatrolled, to admins as some other wikis have. But for the time being, at least, there's really no reason for the wiki to have more than one 'crat. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 17:07, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== Community portal ==<br />
<br />
I've created the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]] as a tools/help page. If that's not what you want, feel free to change/move/whatever it, but I thought it'd be nice to save this page for discussion of the Main Page and discuss the wiki as a whole/ask for help there. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:36, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== Direct link to latest comic ==<br />
<br />
There should be a direct link to the latest comic at the top of the Main page. A nice thing about going to explainxkcd.com was that the latest comic is right there at the top. For those changing their default link to the wiki, there should be an easy "Latest Comic" link that quickly takes them there. I'm sure some folks actually skip xkcd.com and come directly here instead to read the latest offering from Randall. They shouldn't have to search for it.<br />
[[User:Christopher Foxx|- CFoxx]] ([[User talk:Christopher Foxx|talk]]) 11:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
: Maybe the page [[latest]] should redirect to the most recent comic? Could that be taken care of by some sort of script/template so it doesn't have to be manually updated? Should each explination page also have "next", "previous", "random", "first" and "latest" links, possibly also generated automatically via scripts/templates? Additionally, shouldn't the number page be the canonical one? It seems like [[Internal monologue]] should redirect to [[1089]] rather than the other way around - certainly it would make a bunch of scripting types of things a lot easier. [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:02, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::If you wanted, we could even use wiki-magic to show the title of the page as the Comic name, but the URL as the number - in order to parallel the actual XKCD website. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 17:09, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:: Shouldn't there be a way to programmatically find the comic with the highest number that has a page with content? That would work as long as no one puts future comic pages up. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 20:25, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::It's all sounding like folks are over-complicating something quite easy. All I'm suggesting is a prominent link to http://www.xkcd.com/. No need, I think, to list which number the latest is, or include the next/last/random buttons, etc. [[User:Christopher Foxx|- CFoxx]] ([[User talk:Christopher Foxx|talk]]) 11:41, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::Oh. We've got that, now, in the sidebar - labeled as "XKCD." I do think that having an internal link to the latest (explained) comic would be a great thing, though. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 16:36, 4 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
You can transclude the latest comic on the main page like this: <nowiki>{{:pagename}} e.g. {{:Internal_monologue}} </nowiki>--[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 00:25, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
: I've started with just a manual link to the latest comic. Ideally it will be automatic, but a manual link will work for now as I've had quite a few people ask for it. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 21:09, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
Transclusion of the latest comic is great. Someone with the right permissions should add (for instance on the top-right corner of the grey transclusion area) a link to edit the corresponding wiki page, so that people seeing something they could add would feel invited to do so (wiki style). In my opinion this would be a good way to improve the quality of the user-generated explanations.<br />
Also, all the "XKCD"s in the "New here?" section should be converted to the lowercase "xkcd"...<br />
[[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 14:00, 6 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
:Good points. I've done both. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 15:48, 6 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Call me dumb, but... You've got a link called "prev" that goes to the explaination for the previous comic. Then a link called "comic #42" but that goes to xkcd. And then a smaller, less prominent link called "go to this comic" that doesn't go to the comic but to its explaination. Anyone else think that's a little back-to-front? [[User:Zootle|Zootle]] ([[User talk:Zootle|talk]]) 17:18, 31 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
:OK, you're dumb :-). The standard template for an explanation page includes the header with "Prev", "Comic # (date)", and "Next" links. If we don't have explanation pages for the previous or next comic, we don't show the respective link. I hadn't noticed that the "Comic # (date)" bit was a link to the xkcd site before, but in context it makes sense to me. Including a link to the Explain page for the comic who's explain page you are already looking at doesn't make sense.<br />
:The explanation page for the latest comic is "transcluded" in the main page pretty much as-is, so we get the header, the comic, the explanation, etc. We don't get the discussion, which is visible at the bottom of the Explain page. Because there is never an explanation for a comic that hasn't been released yet, there is never a "Next" link on the main page's transcluded header. So you get "Prev" and "Comic" links. The "Go to this comic" link is added by the main page above the transcluded explain page.<br />
:I can see how the "Go to this comic" link might be poorly worded especially as it's placement seems to be within the explanation it's linking to. [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] ([[User talk:Blaisepascal|talk]]) 18:16, 31 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
::Rather than "Go to this comic" maybe it could be "Go to full explanation" ? Something else? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:38, 5 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::There was [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests#.22Edit_this_explanation.22_link_on_main_page a discussion at one point] about a wittier/more descriptive link - but no one came up with anything. I do like "Go to Full Explanation" better, for what it's worth. --[[User:DanB|DanB]] ([[User talk:DanB|talk]]) 15:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
:::My problem with that suggestion is that it implies that the main page explanation is not full. As of right now, the full explanation is transcluded on the main page. There's nothing more to see by clicking that link (explanation wise) Perhaps "Go to full explanation page" but that doesn't quite sound right to me... [[User:TheHYPO|TheHYPO]] ([[User talk:TheHYPO|talk]]) 15:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::::How about "Go to this Comic Explanation Page"? One nice thing about the specific page rather than the [[Main_Page]] transcoding is that it nicely includes the discussion as well. I have a bookmark to the [[Main_Page]] that I look at every day, but I want to easily read the discussions, not only the explanation. Humm, maybe we could have a page [[most recent comic]] that automagically redirects to the most recent comic? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 12:42, 8 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
:::::I tried to get [[most recent comic]] to redirect to LATESTCOMIC, but can't get the syntax working - it is possible? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::::::Apparently it isn't. I would have tried <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]</nowiki></code> like you did, but since that doesn't work, I'll delete the page for now. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:38, 20 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Discussion of latest comic ==<br />
Perhaps include the discussions of the latest comic here? I almost missed there was a discussion field a few times because I would only read about the latest comic on the main page. [[User:Carewolf|Carewolf]] ([[User talk:Carewolf|talk]]) 14:54, 22 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
This comics's explanation is complete bollocks, I think. Of course it is NOT a "fact that such a room exists". This comics parodies trope often used in cop movies - an elderly cop goes to work for the last time before his retirement, packs things, plans fishing the next day ... only to be called to one more case (possibly with a new, young and brash partner). And despites his efforts not to screw anything and stay clear of danger, he is either mortally wounded or screws big time and is degraded. So much clichè, that if someone says "It's my last day or service", you might be sure one of the two options above happens. See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retirony [[User:edheldil|Edheldil]] 10:17, 26 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== The comic explanation count is wrong ==<br />
<br />
The adjustment is currently 3, but there are now 6 subcategories and one list making the current correct adjustment 7.<br />
If the wiki was upgraded to version 1.20, a form exists to automatically exclude subcategories.<br />
--[[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 09:56, 8 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Looks like another week of the wiki going down then.<br />
:But seriously, I've been noticing this too. Didn't know what was causing it, but it's going to have to be fixed sometime.[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 10:25, 8 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::The text reads <pre><nowiki>We already have [[:Category:Comics|'''{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-3}}''' comic explanations]]!</nowiki></pre> The -3 is to account for the subcategories and non-explanation pages in the category. There apparently used to be three such pages, and now there are seven. I would fix this myself, but the page is protected. If the wiki where upgraded to version 1.20, the categories could be explicitly excluded, but the [[List of all comics]] would still be in the category. (Note that the -3 actually appears twice.) --[[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 05:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Mediawiki 1.20 fixes this issue, although it'd be nice if this could be fixed in the meantime via the hack reccommended by divad. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 06:40, 16 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Looks like Waldir updated the "Comic Correction Count" to "10" (as of 20 November 2012):<br />
<nowiki> We already have [[:Category:Comics|'''{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-10}}''' comic explanations]]!</big><br />
Note: the -10 in the calculation above is to discount subcategories (there are 7 of them as of 20 November 2012),<br />
non-comic pages (2 as of same date: [[List of all comics]] and [[Exoplanet]])<br />
and the comic 404, which was deliberately not posted. Thus 7 + 2 + 1 = 10<br />
(But there are still {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-10)}} to go. Come and [[List of all comics|add yours]]!)</nowiki><br />
:Could we possibly make this more dynamic by creating a "IGNORE_IN_COUNT" category or something? and then using something like: <nowiki>{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-{{PAGESINCAT:IGNORE_IN_COUNT}}}</nowiki>? Then any additional entries to the "Comics" category (that are 'special' entries) could just have the special category added and no main page editing would be necessary? --[[User:Bpothier|B. P.]] ([[User talk:Bpothier|talk]]) 07:50, 22 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Make Jeff stop apologizing==<br />
The apology for server downtime has been around for a while now. Can we take it down? [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 04:41, 11 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Spambots ==<br />
<br />
I think someone should install [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter AbuseFilter]. --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 10:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Purge ==<br />
<br />
We should regularly purge the server's cache for the main page using http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge to keep the explanation up to date. --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 02:28, 3 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Updating the Rules ==<br />
<br />
I've been having a lovely discussion with someone who apparently thought the "edit anything you want" rule applied to the Talk pages. As we don't have any codified rules for ''here'' and can only point to "well the canonical way this is done on Wikipedia is..." I think that there are a few things we need to put into the list of Rules on the front page, and then have a link to a more in-depth talk about why the rules exist and what-not.<br />
<br />
Specifically, I'm talking about writing "Feel free to edit any page on the wiki to be better. But, treat talk pages like you would blog comments: comments by other people ''cannot be changed by you'', you can only respond to them." as a new rule to be plastered on the front page, as there seems to be an increasing number social neophytes that seem to think that editing words that are attributed as being said by another person is perfectly legitimate and non-controversial.<br />
<br />
Shall we discuss? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 01:25, 15 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:We could add the etiquette rules as an addendum to the signature reminder at the top of the page. Just an extra note below the alert box asking people to not edit other people's comments. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 06:40, 16 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::It really should be right down with the "edited mercilessly" description, because this is an exception to that statement. Shouldn't have two sets of contradictory instructions in different places. When I made my improper edit, I had a semi-conscious moment of doubt about whether changing the other guy's comment was ok, even though this is a wiki (and even though it wasn't really clear to me that this "discussion" box held something totally separate from the page content), but that statement at the bottom put all such doubts to rest. I read it multiple times to be sure. But I did not notice that line at the top about the four tildes until ''much'' later. It's somewhat lost, visually, in the header line, when you're not looking directly at it.[[Special:Contributions/50.0.38.245|50.0.38.245]] 18:32, 18 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::There's discussion to replace that message with a more noticeable alert box. The message at the bottom of the page appears for all pages, including talk pages, so a talk-page specific message there would not entirely fit. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 00:18, 19 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::If that text at the bottom is in fact alterable, it should be written to take every case into account. It's an extremely poor user interface that has instructions appearing on a page stating rules that are the exact opposite of reality. And note that the altert box on the top looks a lot like a banner add, when you don't focus on it and read it. People will tend to habitually filter out anything written there from their perception. Also, it can easily be scrolled off the top of the screen when the discussion starts to get long, and they have a preview displayed.<br />
::::So I think after the "...then do not submit it here.", it should add, "'''Exception''': others' comments in Discussion pages are not to be altered. See full rules at <<link to appropriate wikipedia page>>."[[Special:Contributions/50.0.38.245|50.0.38.245]] 15:46, 28 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Update after changes ==<br />
<br />
The front page explanation hasn't been updated at all day to match changes in the explanation on the comic's page. This is a major problem i think, as it is the front page explanation people visitors will most often read. --[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 20:43, 26 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
: It might be a caching issue. Appending <code>&action=purge</code> to the URL will probably fix it. Can you confirm it looks good to you now? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 00:29, 27 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
::Yep, now it updates instantly! Well done, whatever you did! :) --[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 16:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::I've also added a link underneath the comic box that has the action embedded, so no one has to do any manual URL hacking. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Suggestion: Change "Go to this comic" to "Go to this entry" ==<br />
<br />
Just a small suggestion. For the Main Page, I suggest changing "Go to this comic" to say "Go to this ''entry''" instead to remove any confusion for new and regular viewers. It certainly took me a while to figure how to go to each featured comic's entry from the main page.<br />
<br />
[[Special:Contributions/69.43.114.2|69.43.114.2]] 17:04, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:How about if it reads "Go to this comic explanation"? Would that be less confusing? I only quibble because the explanations aren't really entries, in wiki parlance each page is usually called an article, but that doesn't seem to fit here as we really have explanation pages. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:41, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::<span style="font-weight: bold; color: green;">Agreed.</span> [[User:Ctxppc|Randy Marsh]] ([[User talk:Ctxppc|talk]]) 22:55, 8 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Explain the Unreleased Comic? ==<br />
:I wonder if [[http://i56.tinypic.com/a9ton8.png this comic]] is permitted to be explained, despite the double issue of Randall pulling the comic plus me finding the pulled comic through "xkcd overrated"... [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 18:21, 12 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Comic 1156 ==<br />
<br />
I don't have an account to edit the page directly, so here's an edit someone should make:<br />
It looks like whoever wrote the existing page simply googled 'conditioning' and found the first link that came up.<br />
Please modify the link to point to 'Classical conditioning', not 'Operant conditioning'.<br />
Thanks. {{unsigned|124.191.56.91}}<br />
<br />
:Hi. This is the talk page for the main page of the wiki. This page only has a "view" of the actual comic explanation. The actual explanation page is at [[1156: Conditioning]], and I assure you, edit permissions have not been restricted for that page. Someone has already changed the page to link to Classical conditioning, but the original editor came back stating that Operant was correct. If you would like to start a discussion about this [[Talk:1156: Conditioning|on the talk page for this explanation]] that would be much more conducive to getting this matter settled. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:52, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Comic Links ==<br />
<br />
Some of the links seem to be confusing, as they're titled in a weird way. The link/button 'go to this comic', I'd expect would go to the actual comic on XKCD's page. Yet it goes to the comic's wiki page. And clicking on the comic # and date directs you to the XKCD page, yet I really feel that link should go to the wiki page, as it's right at the top center there, and has the date and everything, sort of indicating that it's a wiki page, yet it's not. And the prev and next buttons next to it don't go to the xkcd page, they go to the wiki pages. Which is really messed up, I think. Because of my confusion, every single time I visit here, I clicked on the wrong link, though now I've gotten used to it. I suggest rewording the links as '<i>XKCD</i> Comic # and date' and 'go to this comic<i>'s wiki page</i>'. And possibly switching the links' positions so that the wiki links could be in that navigation bar and the XKCD links could be off to the side. After all, we are a wiki, so putting our wiki links to the comic off to the side and the direct xkcd link in the center seems odd. Anyway, has anyone had the same thoughts and/or agree with me on this?--[[Special:Contributions/69.119.250.251|69.119.250.251]] 18:19, 9 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Unexplained comics ==<br />
<br />
The template that starts each explanation page should be edited to have the next and previous buttons automatically skip over pages that don't exist, rather than simply not being there if comic n+1 or n-1 doesn't exist. Preferably it would append a notice to the next page (like the redirect notices commonly found on mediawiki) telling you how many comics have been skipped. I'm not sure how feasible this would be to script, however. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.185|130.160.145.185]] 23:45, 9 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Percentage of remaining comics calculation is off... ==<br />
<br />
Okay, I hate to be "that pedantic math guy", but... Today the main page reads "We have collaboratively explained 936 xkcd comics, and only 252 (27%) remain." While I agree that 252/936 is roughly 27%, I believe we should really be calculating the percentage as "the number left to explain" divided by "the total number of comics that exist", not divided by "the number we have finished". That is (today), 252/1188=21%. Think about it. If we had completed 594 comics today, with 594 remaining, what should the percentage be? 594/594=100%? That's not right... 594/1188=50%? That's what we really want to say.<br />
<br />
The page is protected, which makes sense. So I'll make my suggestion here.<br />
<br />
Change this: <br />
<br />
<pre><br />
and only {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)}}<br />
({{#expr: ({{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)) / ({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9) * 100 round 0}}%)<br />
remain.<br />
</pre><br />
To this: <br />
<pre><br />
and only {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)}}<br />
({{#expr: ({{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)) / {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}}} * 100 round 0}}%)<br />
remain.<br />
</pre><br />
[[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 15:32, 20 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Done and done. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|purple|David}}<font color=green size=3px>y</font></u><font color=indigo size=4px>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 15:37, 20 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Thanks for the heads-up! However, notice that the #expr: around LATESTCOMIC was unnecessary. I've removed it. [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 11:30, 21 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Waldir, you have exposed me as a charlatan and a fool! (I just copied, pasted, and tinkered until I made something that worked. I don't actually understand it. No formal training, you see. It's what we used to call "hacking" back in the dawn of the digital era, before the word took on connotations of vandalism, trespassing, and fraud. Have you kids come up with another word for it?) [[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 13:59, 22 March 2013 (UTC)</div>Imperpayhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=30606Talk:Main Page2013-03-20T15:32:46Z<p>Imperpay: /* Percentage of remaining comics calculation is off... */ new section</p>
<hr />
<div>{{notice|This page is for discussion of the [[Main Page]] itself. Other issues probably belong at the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]].}}<br />
<br />
As a new user, I think the first page is very important. So I thought why not begin a discussion here what to have on the first page every user visits.--[[User:Relic|Relic]] ([[User talk:Relic|talk]]) 05:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT) <small>Re-signed here - b/c I broke the comment in two when I added the "List of comics" header. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 23:01, 2 August 2012 (EDT)</small><br />
<br />
==List of comics==<br />
I was thinking of having a quick link to the list of comics that is explained. Right know, it took me a while to even see any of them. Eventually I found the "List All Pages" (found it in Special pages) where I could find the comics that have been explained. What do you think?<br />
:A category tag will do that for you automatically. Having a list of comics indexed by its number would be a little different.--[[User:Relic|Relic]] ([[User talk:Relic|talk]]) 05:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::Sounds like a great list - I ''think'' it'd have to be manually maintained until/unless we get someone who knows how to make a bot update it. Categories will be useful, but they only work if someone added the category to the page in the first place. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:21, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::A (somewhat) related question - should [[:Category:Comics]] be sorted alphabetically or by comic number? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:43, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::I think [[:Category:Comics]] should be sorted by comic number. If you are looking for a specific comic, you will use the search field. Is there a way to make that happen? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 08:11, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::They are two different functions. For the former, instead of adding <nowiki>[[Category:Comics]]</nowiki>, add, say, <nowiki>[[Category:Comics|1]]</nowiki>. For the second, we can create redirects. Normally, I'd say just make sure the search term was in the article text, but since numbers are going to be use for other purposes than just comic titles, it may be better to create [[1]] and [[Comic 1]] as redirects to the relevant articles right off the bat. --08:24, 1 August 2012 (EDT) <br />
::::::We could also have a comic-list template on the Main Page, I suppose, or perhaps two - one for number and one for name? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:54, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::::Here's what I was thinking of for that: {{tl|Comics navbox}} Thoughts? ''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup><br />
:(outdent) It's ugly, but a sortable wikitable [[User:SurturZ/sandbox|(click here for example)]] could be used as a checklist to see what has been uploaded and what hasn't. What's the project namespace here, anyway (analogue of "WP:")? --[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 03:04, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:OK, I've found a way to get all the titles of the comics, so I was confident enough to create<br/ ><br/ ><big>[[Explain XKCD:Checklist]]</big> <br/ ><br/>which can be used to fill in the gaps. --[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 03:41, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::I'm liking the checklist! That should do quite nicely as a "tool for editors". (I'm linking to it at the Community Portal). We still need the "template for readers." Did you think {{tl|Comics navbox}} was on the right track or should we do something else for that? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 20:09, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::Better idea - I'm throwing it directly onto the Main Page. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 20:10, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
==Admin list==<br />
You can find a system-accurate list of admins [{{canonicalurl:Special:ListUsers|group=sysop}} here], so that might good to share, along with the manual list. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 07:13, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:Added to page. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:10, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::That's exactly what I wanted, but couldn't find the auto page for it. I knew it was somewhere. I don't see any reason to keep the link to the manual page. Do you? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 08:11, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::Not unless you want it. I'll remove it. Should I add the similar link for 'crats or is that unnecessary at this point? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:25, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::To be honest, I have no idea what the Burecrats role does. Might be unnecessary now but helpful in the future? --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 11:16, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::::Bureaucrats can turn other users into administrators (or indeed, other bureaucrats). That privilege isn't available to ordinary administrators. I'd keep it to yourself for the time being. :-) --[[User:Yirba|Yirba]] ([[User talk:Yirba|talk]]) 17:39, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::::You can actually see a technical list of which rights each group confers at [[Special:ListGroupRights]]. As the wiki grows, you might want to spin off a few, such as the ability to grant rollbacker and autopatrolled, to admins as some other wikis have. But for the time being, at least, there's really no reason for the wiki to have more than one 'crat. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 17:07, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== Community portal ==<br />
<br />
I've created the [[Explain XKCD:Community portal]] as a tools/help page. If that's not what you want, feel free to change/move/whatever it, but I thought it'd be nice to save this page for discussion of the Main Page and discuss the wiki as a whole/ask for help there. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 08:36, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== Direct link to latest comic ==<br />
<br />
There should be a direct link to the latest comic at the top of the Main page. A nice thing about going to explainxkcd.com was that the latest comic is right there at the top. For those changing their default link to the wiki, there should be an easy "Latest Comic" link that quickly takes them there. I'm sure some folks actually skip xkcd.com and come directly here instead to read the latest offering from Randall. They shouldn't have to search for it.<br />
[[User:Christopher Foxx|- CFoxx]] ([[User talk:Christopher Foxx|talk]]) 11:59, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
: Maybe the page [[latest]] should redirect to the most recent comic? Could that be taken care of by some sort of script/template so it doesn't have to be manually updated? Should each explination page also have "next", "previous", "random", "first" and "latest" links, possibly also generated automatically via scripts/templates? Additionally, shouldn't the number page be the canonical one? It seems like [[Internal monologue]] should redirect to [[1089]] rather than the other way around - certainly it would make a bunch of scripting types of things a lot easier. [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:02, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::If you wanted, we could even use wiki-magic to show the title of the page as the Comic name, but the URL as the number - in order to parallel the actual XKCD website. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 17:09, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:: Shouldn't there be a way to programmatically find the comic with the highest number that has a page with content? That would work as long as no one puts future comic pages up. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 20:25, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
:::It's all sounding like folks are over-complicating something quite easy. All I'm suggesting is a prominent link to http://www.xkcd.com/. No need, I think, to list which number the latest is, or include the next/last/random buttons, etc. [[User:Christopher Foxx|- CFoxx]] ([[User talk:Christopher Foxx|talk]]) 11:41, 3 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
::::Oh. We've got that, now, in the sidebar - labeled as "XKCD." I do think that having an internal link to the latest (explained) comic would be a great thing, though. --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 16:36, 4 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
You can transclude the latest comic on the main page like this: <nowiki>{{:pagename}} e.g. {{:Internal_monologue}} </nowiki>--[[User:SurturZ|SurturZ]] ([[User talk:SurturZ|talk]]) 00:25, 2 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
: I've started with just a manual link to the latest comic. Ideally it will be automatic, but a manual link will work for now as I've had quite a few people ask for it. --[[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([[User talk:Jeff|talk]]) 21:09, 1 August 2012 (EDT)<br />
<br />
Transclusion of the latest comic is great. Someone with the right permissions should add (for instance on the top-right corner of the grey transclusion area) a link to edit the corresponding wiki page, so that people seeing something they could add would feel invited to do so (wiki style). In my opinion this would be a good way to improve the quality of the user-generated explanations.<br />
Also, all the "XKCD"s in the "New here?" section should be converted to the lowercase "xkcd"...<br />
[[User:Cos|Cos]] ([[User talk:Cos|talk]]) 14:00, 6 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
:Good points. I've done both. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 15:48, 6 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Call me dumb, but... You've got a link called "prev" that goes to the explaination for the previous comic. Then a link called "comic #42" but that goes to xkcd. And then a smaller, less prominent link called "go to this comic" that doesn't go to the comic but to its explaination. Anyone else think that's a little back-to-front? [[User:Zootle|Zootle]] ([[User talk:Zootle|talk]]) 17:18, 31 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
:OK, you're dumb :-). The standard template for an explanation page includes the header with "Prev", "Comic # (date)", and "Next" links. If we don't have explanation pages for the previous or next comic, we don't show the respective link. I hadn't noticed that the "Comic # (date)" bit was a link to the xkcd site before, but in context it makes sense to me. Including a link to the Explain page for the comic who's explain page you are already looking at doesn't make sense.<br />
:The explanation page for the latest comic is "transcluded" in the main page pretty much as-is, so we get the header, the comic, the explanation, etc. We don't get the discussion, which is visible at the bottom of the Explain page. Because there is never an explanation for a comic that hasn't been released yet, there is never a "Next" link on the main page's transcluded header. So you get "Prev" and "Comic" links. The "Go to this comic" link is added by the main page above the transcluded explain page.<br />
:I can see how the "Go to this comic" link might be poorly worded especially as it's placement seems to be within the explanation it's linking to. [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] ([[User talk:Blaisepascal|talk]]) 18:16, 31 August 2012 (UTC)<br />
::Rather than "Go to this comic" maybe it could be "Go to full explanation" ? Something else? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:38, 5 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::There was [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Admin_requests#.22Edit_this_explanation.22_link_on_main_page a discussion at one point] about a wittier/more descriptive link - but no one came up with anything. I do like "Go to Full Explanation" better, for what it's worth. --[[User:DanB|DanB]] ([[User talk:DanB|talk]]) 15:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
:::My problem with that suggestion is that it implies that the main page explanation is not full. As of right now, the full explanation is transcluded on the main page. There's nothing more to see by clicking that link (explanation wise) Perhaps "Go to full explanation page" but that doesn't quite sound right to me... [[User:TheHYPO|TheHYPO]] ([[User talk:TheHYPO|talk]]) 15:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::::How about "Go to this Comic Explanation Page"? One nice thing about the specific page rather than the [[Main_Page]] transcoding is that it nicely includes the discussion as well. I have a bookmark to the [[Main_Page]] that I look at every day, but I want to easily read the discussions, not only the explanation. Humm, maybe we could have a page [[most recent comic]] that automagically redirects to the most recent comic? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 12:42, 8 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
:::::I tried to get [[most recent comic]] to redirect to LATESTCOMIC, but can't get the syntax working - it is possible? [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 13:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
::::::Apparently it isn't. I would have tried <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[{{LATESTCOMIC}}]]</nowiki></code> like you did, but since that doesn't work, I'll delete the page for now. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 16:38, 20 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Discussion of latest comic ==<br />
Perhaps include the discussions of the latest comic here? I almost missed there was a discussion field a few times because I would only read about the latest comic on the main page. [[User:Carewolf|Carewolf]] ([[User talk:Carewolf|talk]]) 14:54, 22 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
This comics's explanation is complete bollocks, I think. Of course it is NOT a "fact that such a room exists". This comics parodies trope often used in cop movies - an elderly cop goes to work for the last time before his retirement, packs things, plans fishing the next day ... only to be called to one more case (possibly with a new, young and brash partner). And despites his efforts not to screw anything and stay clear of danger, he is either mortally wounded or screws big time and is degraded. So much clichè, that if someone says "It's my last day or service", you might be sure one of the two options above happens. See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retirony [[User:edheldil|Edheldil]] 10:17, 26 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== The comic explanation count is wrong ==<br />
<br />
The adjustment is currently 3, but there are now 6 subcategories and one list making the current correct adjustment 7.<br />
If the wiki was upgraded to version 1.20, a form exists to automatically exclude subcategories.<br />
--[[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 09:56, 8 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Looks like another week of the wiki going down then.<br />
:But seriously, I've been noticing this too. Didn't know what was causing it, but it's going to have to be fixed sometime.[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 10:25, 8 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::The text reads <pre><nowiki>We already have [[:Category:Comics|'''{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-3}}''' comic explanations]]!</nowiki></pre> The -3 is to account for the subcategories and non-explanation pages in the category. There apparently used to be three such pages, and now there are seven. I would fix this myself, but the page is protected. If the wiki where upgraded to version 1.20, the categories could be explicitly excluded, but the [[List of all comics]] would still be in the category. (Note that the -3 actually appears twice.) --[[User:Divad27182|Divad27182]] ([[User talk:Divad27182|talk]]) 05:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Mediawiki 1.20 fixes this issue, although it'd be nice if this could be fixed in the meantime via the hack reccommended by divad. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 06:40, 16 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Looks like Waldir updated the "Comic Correction Count" to "10" (as of 20 November 2012):<br />
<nowiki> We already have [[:Category:Comics|'''{{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-10}}''' comic explanations]]!</big><br />
Note: the -10 in the calculation above is to discount subcategories (there are 7 of them as of 20 November 2012),<br />
non-comic pages (2 as of same date: [[List of all comics]] and [[Exoplanet]])<br />
and the comic 404, which was deliberately not posted. Thus 7 + 2 + 1 = 10<br />
(But there are still {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-10)}} to go. Come and [[List of all comics|add yours]]!)</nowiki><br />
:Could we possibly make this more dynamic by creating a "IGNORE_IN_COUNT" category or something? and then using something like: <nowiki>{#expr:{{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-{{PAGESINCAT:IGNORE_IN_COUNT}}}</nowiki>? Then any additional entries to the "Comics" category (that are 'special' entries) could just have the special category added and no main page editing would be necessary? --[[User:Bpothier|B. P.]] ([[User talk:Bpothier|talk]]) 07:50, 22 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Make Jeff stop apologizing==<br />
The apology for server downtime has been around for a while now. Can we take it down? [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 04:41, 11 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Spambots ==<br />
<br />
I think someone should install [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter AbuseFilter]. --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 10:09, 13 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Purge ==<br />
<br />
We should regularly purge the server's cache for the main page using http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge to keep the explanation up to date. --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 02:28, 3 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Updating the Rules ==<br />
<br />
I've been having a lovely discussion with someone who apparently thought the "edit anything you want" rule applied to the Talk pages. As we don't have any codified rules for ''here'' and can only point to "well the canonical way this is done on Wikipedia is..." I think that there are a few things we need to put into the list of Rules on the front page, and then have a link to a more in-depth talk about why the rules exist and what-not.<br />
<br />
Specifically, I'm talking about writing "Feel free to edit any page on the wiki to be better. But, treat talk pages like you would blog comments: comments by other people ''cannot be changed by you'', you can only respond to them." as a new rule to be plastered on the front page, as there seems to be an increasing number social neophytes that seem to think that editing words that are attributed as being said by another person is perfectly legitimate and non-controversial.<br />
<br />
Shall we discuss? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 01:25, 15 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:We could add the etiquette rules as an addendum to the signature reminder at the top of the page. Just an extra note below the alert box asking people to not edit other people's comments. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 06:40, 16 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::It really should be right down with the "edited mercilessly" description, because this is an exception to that statement. Shouldn't have two sets of contradictory instructions in different places. When I made my improper edit, I had a semi-conscious moment of doubt about whether changing the other guy's comment was ok, even though this is a wiki (and even though it wasn't really clear to me that this "discussion" box held something totally separate from the page content), but that statement at the bottom put all such doubts to rest. I read it multiple times to be sure. But I did not notice that line at the top about the four tildes until ''much'' later. It's somewhat lost, visually, in the header line, when you're not looking directly at it.[[Special:Contributions/50.0.38.245|50.0.38.245]] 18:32, 18 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::There's discussion to replace that message with a more noticeable alert box. The message at the bottom of the page appears for all pages, including talk pages, so a talk-page specific message there would not entirely fit. [[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 00:18, 19 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::If that text at the bottom is in fact alterable, it should be written to take every case into account. It's an extremely poor user interface that has instructions appearing on a page stating rules that are the exact opposite of reality. And note that the altert box on the top looks a lot like a banner add, when you don't focus on it and read it. People will tend to habitually filter out anything written there from their perception. Also, it can easily be scrolled off the top of the screen when the discussion starts to get long, and they have a preview displayed.<br />
::::So I think after the "...then do not submit it here.", it should add, "'''Exception''': others' comments in Discussion pages are not to be altered. See full rules at <<link to appropriate wikipedia page>>."[[Special:Contributions/50.0.38.245|50.0.38.245]] 15:46, 28 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Update after changes ==<br />
<br />
The front page explanation hasn't been updated at all day to match changes in the explanation on the comic's page. This is a major problem i think, as it is the front page explanation people visitors will most often read. --[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 20:43, 26 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
: It might be a caching issue. Appending <code>&action=purge</code> to the URL will probably fix it. Can you confirm it looks good to you now? --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 00:29, 27 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
::Yep, now it updates instantly! Well done, whatever you did! :) --[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 16:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::I've also added a link underneath the comic box that has the action embedded, so no one has to do any manual URL hacking. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Suggestion: Change "Go to this comic" to "Go to this entry" ==<br />
<br />
Just a small suggestion. For the Main Page, I suggest changing "Go to this comic" to say "Go to this ''entry''" instead to remove any confusion for new and regular viewers. It certainly took me a while to figure how to go to each featured comic's entry from the main page.<br />
<br />
[[Special:Contributions/69.43.114.2|69.43.114.2]] 17:04, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:How about if it reads "Go to this comic explanation"? Would that be less confusing? I only quibble because the explanations aren't really entries, in wiki parlance each page is usually called an article, but that doesn't seem to fit here as we really have explanation pages. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 17:41, 11 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::<span style="font-weight: bold; color: green;">Agreed.</span> [[User:Ctxppc|Randy Marsh]] ([[User talk:Ctxppc|talk]]) 22:55, 8 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Explain the Unreleased Comic? ==<br />
:I wonder if [[http://i56.tinypic.com/a9ton8.png this comic]] is permitted to be explained, despite the double issue of Randall pulling the comic plus me finding the pulled comic through "xkcd overrated"... [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 18:21, 12 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Comic 1156 ==<br />
<br />
I don't have an account to edit the page directly, so here's an edit someone should make:<br />
It looks like whoever wrote the existing page simply googled 'conditioning' and found the first link that came up.<br />
Please modify the link to point to 'Classical conditioning', not 'Operant conditioning'.<br />
Thanks. {{unsigned|124.191.56.91}}<br />
<br />
:Hi. This is the talk page for the main page of the wiki. This page only has a "view" of the actual comic explanation. The actual explanation page is at [[1156: Conditioning]], and I assure you, edit permissions have not been restricted for that page. Someone has already changed the page to link to Classical conditioning, but the original editor came back stating that Operant was correct. If you would like to start a discussion about this [[Talk:1156: Conditioning|on the talk page for this explanation]] that would be much more conducive to getting this matter settled. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:52, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Comic Links ==<br />
<br />
Some of the links seem to be confusing, as they're titled in a weird way. The link/button 'go to this comic', I'd expect would go to the actual comic on XKCD's page. Yet it goes to the comic's wiki page. And clicking on the comic # and date directs you to the XKCD page, yet I really feel that link should go to the wiki page, as it's right at the top center there, and has the date and everything, sort of indicating that it's a wiki page, yet it's not. And the prev and next buttons next to it don't go to the xkcd page, they go to the wiki pages. Which is really messed up, I think. Because of my confusion, every single time I visit here, I clicked on the wrong link, though now I've gotten used to it. I suggest rewording the links as '<i>XKCD</i> Comic # and date' and 'go to this comic<i>'s wiki page</i>'. And possibly switching the links' positions so that the wiki links could be in that navigation bar and the XKCD links could be off to the side. After all, we are a wiki, so putting our wiki links to the comic off to the side and the direct xkcd link in the center seems odd. Anyway, has anyone had the same thoughts and/or agree with me on this?--[[Special:Contributions/69.119.250.251|69.119.250.251]] 18:19, 9 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Unexplained comics ==<br />
<br />
The template that starts each explanation page should be edited to have the next and previous buttons automatically skip over pages that don't exist, rather than simply not being there if comic n+1 or n-1 doesn't exist. Preferably it would append a notice to the next page (like the redirect notices commonly found on mediawiki) telling you how many comics have been skipped. I'm not sure how feasible this would be to script, however. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.185|130.160.145.185]] 23:45, 9 March 2013 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Percentage of remaining comics calculation is off... ==<br />
<br />
Okay, I hate to be "that pedantic math guy", but... Today the main page reads "We have collaboratively explained 936 xkcd comics, and only 252 (27%) remain." While I agree that 252/936 is roughly 27%, I believe we should really be calculating the percentage as "the number left to explain" divided by "the total number of comics that exist", not divided by "the number we have finished". That is (today), 252/1188=21%. Think about it. If we had completed 594 comics today, with 594 remaining, what should the percentage be? 594/594=100%? That's not right... 594/1188=50%? That's what we really want to say.<br />
<br />
The page is protected, which makes sense. So I'll make my suggestion here.<br />
<br />
Change this: <br />
<br />
<pre><br />
and only {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)}}<br />
({{#expr: ({{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)) / ({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9) * 100 round 0}}%)<br />
remain.<br />
</pre><br />
To this: <br />
<pre><br />
and only {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)}}<br />
({{#expr: ({{LATESTCOMIC}}-({{PAGESINCAT:Comics}}-9)) / {{#expr:{{LATESTCOMIC}}}} * 100 round 0}}%)<br />
remain.<br />
</pre><br />
[[User:Imperpay|Imperpay]] ([[User talk:Imperpay|talk]]) 15:32, 20 March 2013 (UTC)</div>Imperpay