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162.158.155.4 at 17:32, 20 April 2023

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GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e at 05:53, 20 April 2023

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Szeth Pancakes at 20:36, 30 August 2022

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		+	==Split the page into three organized pages==
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		+	Hello, I'm mostly known here for creating the huge table of [[2765: Escape Speed#Celestial_Bodies_and_Collectable_Items\|2765: Escape Speed]]
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		+	I've organed the "What If?" pages on explainxkcd better, so we don't have a single page for three '''very''' different things. At the start of this wiki, this one page was only about the "what if?" blog, since Randall hadn't released any book. But then, after he published "What If?", we kept using this page for both the book and the blog, which meant that explanations of the book and the blog were randomly scattered across the page. This became even worse in 2022, since we kept using this ONE page for a web blog, and 2014 book and a 2022 book. All very different things that deserve their own, dedicated page.
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		+	So, I've fixed all of that! All the contents of this page have been split into three pages to clean up and organize the previous mess. Here they are:
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		+	* [[what if? (blog)\|'''''what if?'' (blog)''']], for Randall's web blog
		+	* [[What If? (book)\|'''''What If?'' (book)''']], for the original book released in 2014
		+	* '''''[[What If? 2]]''''', for the second book, released in 2022
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		+	Before you ask, yes, I've taken all the necessary steps, such as updating internal links in 150 comic pages and adding redirects to the right pages. Thank you. [[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 14:36, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
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		+	Previous discussion page:
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	I moved the [[what if?]] page to here because I was unable to use the "move" ability as it kept showing "No input file specified".<span> — [[User:Sqrt-1\|The <b>𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭</b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Sqrt-1\|<span style="color: blue">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1\|<span style="color: blue">stalk</span>]]</sup></span> 06:44, 29 September 2020 (UTC)		I moved the [[what if?]] page to here because I was unable to use the "move" ability as it kept showing "No input file specified".<span> — [[User:Sqrt-1\|The <b>𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭</b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Sqrt-1\|<span style="color: blue">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1\|<span style="color: blue">stalk</span>]]</sup></span> 06:44, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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	::Well, [https://xkcd.com/17/ Comic 17] isn't an actual "what-if", in anything but name. The others might locally be cached for you, having been there recently. Def. something wrong, but exactly what needs to be looked into by Randall/his tech team, I would say. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.86\|172.71.242.86]] 18:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		::Well, [https://xkcd.com/17/ Comic 17] isn't an actual "what-if", in anything but name. The others might locally be cached for you, having been there recently. Def. something wrong, but exactly what needs to be looked into by Randall/his tech team, I would say. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.86\|172.71.242.86]] 18:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
	::I'm getting errors as well. A 403 error on the "what if" landing page, and 404 errors to any directly linked pages. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.86\|172.71.154.86]] 19:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		::I'm getting errors as well. A 403 error on the "what if" landing page, and 404 errors to any directly linked pages. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.86\|172.71.154.86]] 19:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
		+	::Looks like it might be fixed now, apparently it was moving to a site called sciesnet. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.145\|172.70.134.145]] 18:46, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

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	:Was reading the site the past few days, 17 and the others I saw the past few days work on my end but the others are 404 for me. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.4\|162.158.155.4]] 17:32, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		:Was reading the site the past few days, 17 and the others I saw the past few days work on my end but the others are 404 for me. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.4\|162.158.155.4]] 17:32, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
	::Well, [https://xkcd.com/17/ Comic 17] isn't an actual "what-if", in anything but name. The others might locally be cached for you, having been there recently. Def. something wrong, but exactly what needs to be looked into by Randall/his tech team, I would say. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.86\|172.71.242.86]] 18:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		::Well, [https://xkcd.com/17/ Comic 17] isn't an actual "what-if", in anything but name. The others might locally be cached for you, having been there recently. Def. something wrong, but exactly what needs to be looked into by Randall/his tech team, I would say. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.86\|172.71.242.86]] 18:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
		+	::I'm getting errors as well. A 403 error on the "what if" landing page, and 404 errors to any directly linked pages. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.86\|172.71.154.86]] 19:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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	:For that (the 'main/default' page of the domain), I'm getting "403 Forbidden", instead. But "404 Not Found" for WI-number pages or the feed on that domain. But not tried to work out what the archive/list page is or was. I think it's a mess-up on the backend server (accidental change, or not keeping up with some other front-end change) rather than a domain-level end-of-service situation... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.207\|172.71.178.207]] 15:43, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		:For that (the 'main/default' page of the domain), I'm getting "403 Forbidden", instead. But "404 Not Found" for WI-number pages or the feed on that domain. But not tried to work out what the archive/list page is or was. I think it's a mess-up on the backend server (accidental change, or not keeping up with some other front-end change) rather than a domain-level end-of-service situation... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.207\|172.71.178.207]] 15:43, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
	:Was reading the site the past few days, 17 and the others I saw the past few days work on my end but the others are 404 for me. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.4\|162.158.155.4]] 17:32, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		:Was reading the site the past few days, 17 and the others I saw the past few days work on my end but the others are 404 for me. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.4\|162.158.155.4]] 17:32, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
		+	::Well, [https://xkcd.com/17/ Comic 17] isn't an actual "what-if", in anything but name. The others might locally be cached for you, having been there recently. Def. something wrong, but exactly what needs to be looked into by Randall/his tech team, I would say. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.86\|172.71.242.86]] 18:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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	When I try to access [https://what-if.xkcd.com/ the page], I get a 404 error. Is this just me? [[User:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e]] ([[User talk:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|talk]]) 05:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		When I try to access [https://what-if.xkcd.com/ the page], I get a 404 error. Is this just me? [[User:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e]] ([[User talk:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|talk]]) 05:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
	:For that (the 'main/default' page of the domain), I'm getting "403 Forbidden", instead. But "404 Not Found" for WI-number pages or the feed on that domain. But not tried to work out what the archive/list page is or was. I think it's a mess-up on the backend server (accidental change, or not keeping up with some other front-end change) rather than a domain-level end-of-service situation... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.207\|172.71.178.207]] 15:43, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		:For that (the 'main/default' page of the domain), I'm getting "403 Forbidden", instead. But "404 Not Found" for WI-number pages or the feed on that domain. But not tried to work out what the archive/list page is or was. I think it's a mess-up on the backend server (accidental change, or not keeping up with some other front-end change) rather than a domain-level end-of-service situation... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.207\|172.71.178.207]] 15:43, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
		+	:Was reading the site the past few days, 17 and the others I saw the past few days work on my end but the others are 404 for me. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.4\|162.158.155.4]] 17:32, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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	== Page disappearing? ==		== Page disappearing? ==
	When I try to access [https://what-if.xkcd.com/ the page], I get a 404 error. Is this just me? [[User:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e]] ([[User talk:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|talk]]) 05:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)		When I try to access [https://what-if.xkcd.com/ the page], I get a 404 error. Is this just me? [[User:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e]] ([[User talk:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|talk]]) 05:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
		+	:For that (the 'main/default' page of the domain), I'm getting "403 Forbidden", instead. But "404 Not Found" for WI-number pages or the feed on that domain. But not tried to work out what the archive/list page is or was. I think it's a mess-up on the backend server (accidental change, or not keeping up with some other front-end change) rather than a domain-level end-of-service situation... [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.207\|172.71.178.207]] 15:43, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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	What exactly is the summary? There are numerous fallacies in it. Please provide context or I will likely return and edit this in the future. [[User:SilverTheTerribleMathematician\|SilverTheTerribleMathematician]] ([[User talk:SilverTheTerribleMathematician\|talk]]) 15:11, 15 December 2022 (UTC)		What exactly is the summary? There are numerous fallacies in it. Please provide context or I will likely return and edit this in the future. [[User:SilverTheTerribleMathematician\|SilverTheTerribleMathematician]] ([[User talk:SilverTheTerribleMathematician\|talk]]) 15:11, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
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		+	== Page disappearing? ==
		+	When I try to access [https://what-if.xkcd.com/ the page], I get a 404 error. Is this just me? [[User:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e]] ([[User talk:GcGYSF(asterisk)P(vertical line)e\|talk]]) 05:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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	Is the "it's" in the UK book description a typo by the article writer, or is it there in the actual book? I can't find it on the internets. [[User:Szeth Pancakes\|Szeth Pancakes]] ([[User talk:Szeth Pancakes\|talk]]) 20:36, 30 August 2022 (UTC)		Is the "it's" in the UK book description a typo by the article writer, or is it there in the actual book? I can't find it on the internets. [[User:Szeth Pancakes\|Szeth Pancakes]] ([[User talk:Szeth Pancakes\|talk]]) 20:36, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
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		+	== Summary ==
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		+	What exactly is the summary? There are numerous fallacies in it. Please provide context or I will likely return and edit this in the future. [[User:SilverTheTerribleMathematician\|SilverTheTerribleMathematician]] ([[User talk:SilverTheTerribleMathematician\|talk]]) 15:11, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

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	I just noticed this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/science/randall-munroe-question-popcorn.html It seems to be a continuation of what if in spirit but not in name, should we link to it from here?		I just noticed this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/science/randall-munroe-question-popcorn.html It seems to be a continuation of what if in spirit but not in name, should we link to it from here?
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		+	Is the "it's" in the UK book description a typo by the article writer, or is it there in the actual book? I can't find it on the internets. [[User:Szeth Pancakes\|Szeth Pancakes]] ([[User talk:Szeth Pancakes\|talk]]) 20:36, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

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	I moved the [[what if?]] page to here because I was unable to use the "move" ability as it kept showing "No input file specified".<span> — [[User:Sqrt-1\|The <b>𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭</b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Sqrt-1\|<span style="color: blue">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1\|<span style="color: blue">stalk</span>]]</sup></span> 06:44, 29 September 2020 (UTC)		I moved the [[what if?]] page to here because I was unable to use the "move" ability as it kept showing "No input file specified".<span> — [[User:Sqrt-1\|The <b>𝗦𝗾𝗿𝘁-𝟭</b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Sqrt-1\|<span style="color: blue">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Sqrt-1\|<span style="color: blue">stalk</span>]]</sup></span> 06:44, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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		+	I just noticed this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/science/randall-munroe-question-popcorn.html It seems to be a continuation of what if in spirit but not in name, should we link to it from here?