* If you're new to wiki editing, see the [[explain xkcd:Editor FAQ]] for a specific guidance to this wiki and the more general help on [[m
...al or modification at admin discretion, and users who repeatedly post such content will be blocked.
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...ml July 5, 2006], based on Web Archive captures. The comic's art style and content suggested it may have been an older, unused drawing selected to better matc
In February 2025, [[User:FaviFake]], an editor from this wiki, contacted Randall Munroe via email to clarify the exact dat
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...orow]], a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog {{w|Boing Boing}}. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing
...e putting up graffiti or tearing down signs; she likely replaces the URL's content from the original site to another image, text box, or other message as reve
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...l reliable citations. [[explain_xkcd:Editor_FAQ#citation|Learn more at the Editor FAQ]].
...ons:Licensing#Acceptable_licenses considered too restrictive for Wikimedia content]. On Wikipedia, this comic was featured as the {{w|Template:POTD/2018-11-23
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|Web 7.1 || This is a parody of {{w|Web 2.0}}, a concept in which content from the Internet is provided beyond the webpage. Despite its name, Web 2.0
...anyone who the user has not granted the "Friend" status to from seeing the content.
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...k region is not exaggerated, as most websites seem to allow "liking" their content or allow/require logging in the website with a Facebook account. There even
...an extensive [https://steamcommunity.com/ community] where users can share content, and instant messaging chat by text, voice, or game streaming.
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...so it might arise - in good faith or otherwise - from a less professional editor ''trying'' to look a little more serious about the copy they distribute in
...formation in them may be arranged differently, possibly to "dumb down" the content, or in marketing materials or talks in which the author may not be very obj
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:[Below the image editor nothing has changed compared to before and everything beneath the thin blac
|files overwritten with more interesting content
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...ml July 5, 2006], based on Web Archive captures. The comic's art style and content suggested it may have been an older, unused drawing selected to better matc
In February 2025, [[User:FaviFake]], an editor from this wiki, contacted Randall Munroe via email to clarify the exact dat
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...ressing the PrtScn (Print Screen) key on the keyboard and then pasting the content into a blank image in an image-editing program. An even better solution is
:[Editor's note: Everything is on fire] and has been delayed until Sunday night.
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...kipedia talk pages. On Wikipedia, every article has a place to discuss the content of the page, called a "{{w|Help:Using talk pages|talk page}}". This comic p
...ct. "{{w|WP:UNDUE|Undue weight}}" is the appropriate guideline for article content. Material which is not noteworthy should be removed; however, different edi
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| titletext = My optimizer uses content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeatin
...features is “content-aware fill”, which could also be described as “content-aware inpainting”. It works similarly to the Patch tool, but automaticall
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...siderations. Screenshots have become a common way of spreading and sharing content on social media like Tumblr and Twitter, particularly excerpts of text such
...e that bought the book used its teachings to distribute screenshots of the content to the others. In essence, the writer of the textbook has taught their stud
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...ight to them by making it seem like the person being quoted endorses their content or message. This quote would actively undermine the reputation of the work,
...the quote, not just the part in quote marks." [Quote marks, brackets, and editor's note are all in the original. —Ed.]''
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...plistic xkcd comic possible - [[Cueball]] standing and doing nothing. The "editor's note" tells you to save a copy of the image to "view the full comic".
...t of the disk, effectively killing the system instead of just deleting the content of some directory. Notice that this particular misspell manages to circumve
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...information, by distraction, or by prompting adverse emotional reaction to content; she muses that, in some way or another, this habit is probably doing some
...pinions, either by local columnists or average citizens via letters to the editor, and they, as with any body of opinions throughout history, were frequently
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...leaves trace evidence of Randall's formatting attempt. For example, if an editor later comes along and notices the bold space, they may figure out that Rand
:[A text editor, with some options. They are superscript in one section, bold, italic and u
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...ng topics and content that would be off-limits in the new xkcd. Prohibited content includes:
...m a webcomic. Newspapers are notorious for having stricter rules about the content they publish, and [[Randall]] describes all the changes that would be requi
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...of a text by changing its formatting rather than the content; for example, content can be moved into parentheses or footnotes to be de-emphasized, or rendered
:Cueball: It's weird that you can just look at it in a text editor.
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...is comic jokes that while the passage is explaining the spread of Internet content using evolution, such as with the words "meme" and "viral", Randall feels t
...e's a solution. The old versions are still around, so if you have an image editor that lets you splice together parts of two images, you can make a new versi
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