explain xkcd talk:Explanation Improvement Project
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Progress[edit]"That's twice this thing has failed now. Do we just not have a big enough following for this to work, or is this not a good idea? If it fails again, I'll probably discontinue this"
Um, it's been stuck on 503: Terminology for three days. Is something wrong? 199.27.128.66 18:51, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
843 should be the Incomplete Explanation of the Day for February 4th. It's just appropriate. 108.162.237.64 00:45, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Things we can do after this is finished[edit]Along with the 3 items already listed, should we add "explain" pages for each of the weekly "What If" pages on xkcd?
Adding dates to every comic[edit]The dates for every comic is in the tooltip for cominc 45 onwards on http://xkcd.com/archive/ -- Some of the comics are related to current events and it would be worth having every explain page containing a date. Spongebog (talk) 14:37, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
100% completion?[edit]It appears that there's nothing remaining in the incomplete explanations list. Assuming we can't explain comics head of time and before they exist, it might be nice to consider what else this site could need. As more comics go on, of course they will need explaining, but I'm just curious if there are any ideas (Other than, for instance, a new wiki called 'explain explainxkcd' where we go into detail as to every single explanation, give etymological background as to the words used, explaining the connotation of the html styling that the page expresses :p). Kirdneh (talk) 18:19, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Incomplete Explanation of the Day???[edit]"Incomplete Explanation of the Day" -- these are now staying around for weeks or a month without changing, so maybe they should be called something else, like "Incomplete Explanation currently needing attention" 199.27.133.6 02:59, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
The problem is that it's always stuck on the big comics, and then it's impossible to fix, so if newer comics are incomplete, they're forgotten, and now there are like forty incomplete comics, some which would be relatively easy to finish if some more people knew about them. So maybe we should change the current incomplete explanation every week or so? Herobrine (talk) 06:25, 1 January 2018 (UTC) Renaming[edit]I've renamed this project because the name was becoming grossly inaccurate and people bring it up a lot. Davidy²²[talk] 05:55, 26 March 2016 (UTC) |
Implementation[edit]
Here's how the MediaWiki:Sitenotice could look like for the first few TWEFI:
After more than a decade, the Explanation Improvement Project is back with the new goal of rewriting 1 stagnant explanation every week. This week's Explanation for Improvement is:3290: Trade
Wish your favourite comic were explained better? Want to help pick the next Explanation for Improvement? Then vote on the current nominations or propose new ones!
The current TWEFI will be tagged with {{This Week's Explanation for Improvement banner}}:
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The Explanation Improvement Project has selected this page as This Week's Explanation for Improvement. Anyone is encouraged to help explain this comic! Every little bit counts; even just adding a sentence or fixing a typo is another step towards improving the wiki for everyone.
Click here to get started! If you are new to wiki editing, see our editing FAQ for guidance, or simply learn by doing :) |
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The colour palette is the following:
- Green #006622
- Light green #e3f2e4
- Blue #3366cc
- Light blue #e8eeff
- Grey #72777d
- Light grey #eaecf0
FaviFake (talk) 16:30, 27 August 2026 (UTC)
So much more polished[edit]
@FaviFake I really love what you've done with this, props to you! I'm going to try my best to do my part in my free time and WILL be adding this to my list of pages to regularly patrol C: tori :3talk to me! 05:00, 27 August 2026 (UTC)