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Ideas please

I've got wood shop this year for ma school, and I'm hoping to make something xkcd related. Yall got any ideas? Nothing too complicated, it's a high school woodshop Black Hat's Hat (talk) 14:55, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

3239: Simple Machines? ;) 81.179.200.82 18:56, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Or just Machine! FaviFake (talk) 21:53, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

Ah yes, building either the simplest (containing of most simple machines) or most complex thing Randall has ever produced

I'm just gonna make a dicetower and put Probably Deterministic on it Black Hat's Hat (talk) 14:56, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Can someone create my user page?

Hi, my name is Infortaly (as you can tell from my user, lol). I’m pretty new here and I’ve been looking around, and I saw a link to create my user page. If this is not the right place to ask for this I apologize, but otherwise could someone create it for me? Thanks! : ) Informationaly (talk) 18:51, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

@Infortaly  ✓ Done  FaviFake (talk) 20:19, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Informationaly (talk) 22:33, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

new comic

how do i make a new page? there is nothing (as of 7:10pm 9/23/26) for comic 3302 Mrzionbear (talk) 00:11, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

@Mrzionbear You should generally wait for the bot to do its thing. However, the instructions for creating it anyway are at EX:FAQ#The bot failed. How do I manually create the newest explanation? so feel free to give it a read. FaviFake (talk) 22:22, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

User page creation

Can someone make my user page please Titintheword (talk) 01:10, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

What do you want to write in it? Elizium23 (talk) 04:06, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

@Titintheword  ✓ Done  FaviFake (talk) 08:12, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Titintheword (talk) 14:30, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

April fools

By my reckoning, we’re less than 6 months away from the next April Fools' Day comic, so I’m wondering if anyone has any guesses on what the next comic will be. My guess is some sort of guessing game with previous comics, would love to hear your ideas though! Titintheword (talk) 15:27, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Which xkcd comics are referenced / linked to on the web

Which comics have the most links to them? I was wondering if someone has enough "googlefu" to be able to produce a list of comics, and the counts, that have links in blogs etc. This could be a "Top 100" most comics referenced. Any guesses what the most reference comic is? My own guess would be [1]https://xkcd.com/927/ Standards followed by [2]https://xkcd.com/538/ Security. Punchcard (talk) 15:56, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

That would be interesting, I agree! It would be a slightly incorrect but deterministic list of the most popular comics.

Maybe an easier approach would be to check the "What links here" page of every explanation and see which ones are linked from other pages the most, including from talk pages on this wiki. FaviFake (talk) 17:56, 2 October 2026 (UTC)