| --- |
| license: cc |
| task_categories: |
| - image-to-text |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - art |
| pretty_name: Explain XKCD |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| dataset_info: |
| features: |
| - name: number |
| dtype: string |
| - name: date |
| dtype: string |
| - name: title |
| dtype: string |
| - name: before |
| dtype: string |
| - name: image |
| dtype: image |
| - name: titletext |
| dtype: string |
| - name: transcript |
| dtype: string |
| - name: explanation |
| dtype: string |
| splits: |
| - name: train |
| num_bytes: 183315711.73 |
| num_examples: 2795 |
| download_size: 226687075 |
| dataset_size: 183315711.73 |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/train-* |
| --- |
| |
| # Dataset Card for Explain XKCD |
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| ## Dataset Description |
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| - **Homepage:** https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page |
| - **Repository:** https://huggingface.co/datasets/dchichkov/explainxkcd |
| - **Paper:** |
| - **Leaderboard:** |
| - **Point of Contact:** |
| |
| ### 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. | |
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| NOTE: original image filenames in xkcd included spaces, in this dataset these were replaced with underscores. |
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| ## Licensing Information |
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| Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
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| ```text |
| 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 |
| ``` |
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| Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (CC BY-NC 2.5) |
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| ```text |
| xkcd: License Page. Retrieved Retrieved May 19, 2025, from https://xkcd.com/license.html |
| ``` |
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| Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) |
| ```text |
| This work |
| ``` |
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| ### Citation Information |
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| ```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. |
