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dchichkov/explainxkcd

Dataset Card for Explain XKCD Dataset Summary An import of the Explain XKCD wiki (up to March 30, 2024), containing explanations for 2668 xkcd comics. Field Type Description number string The xkcd comic’s sequential number (e.g. "3", "1000"). date string Publication date of the comic, in “Month Day, Year” format (e.g. "September 30, 2005"). title string The displayed title of the comic (e.g. "Island (sketch)"). before string Any original or… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/dchichkov/explainxkcd.

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Dataset Card for Explain XKCD

Dataset Description

—Homepage: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
—Repository: https://huggingface.co/datasets/dchichkov/explainxkcd
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Dataset Summary

An import of the Explain XKCD wiki (up to March 30, 2024), containing explanations for 2668 xkcd comics.

Field	Type	Description
`number`	string	The xkcd comic’s sequential number (e.g. `"3"`, `"1000"`).
`date`	string	Publication date of the comic, in “Month Day, Year” format (e.g. `"September 30, 2005"`).
`title`	string	The displayed title of the comic (e.g. `"Island (sketch)"`).
`before`	string	Any original or archived title/caption metadata, typically a MediaWiki-style link or HTML snippet pointing back to the source (e.g. the LiveJournal archive).
`image`	string	Filename of the comic image (e.g. `"island_color.jpg"`) in the images/.
`titletext`	string	The “alt” or tooltip text that appears when you hover over the comic on xkcd’s site.
`transcript`	string	A plain-text transcript of the comic panels and dialogue.
`explanation`	string	A detailed explanation of the joke or references in the comic, suitable for the “Explain xkcd” format.

NOTE: original image filenames in xkcd included spaces, in this dataset these were replaced with underscores.

Licensing Information

Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Explain xkcd: It’s ’cause you’re dumb. (2025). Main Page. Fan-maintained wiki. Retrieved May 19, 2025, from https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (CC BY-NC 2.5)

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xkcd: License Page. Retrieved Retrieved May 19, 2025, from https://xkcd.com/license.html

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0)

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This work

Citation Information

bibtex

@misc{dchichkov_explainxkcd_2025,
  author       = {Chichkov, Dmitry},
  title        = {{Explain XKCD Dataset}},
  year         = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/dchichkov/explainxkcd}},
  note         = {Fan-curated import of the Explain XKCD wiki up to March 30, 2024}
}

### Contributions

Thanks to [@dchichkov](https://github.com/dchichkov) for adding this dataset.