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license: cc-by-sa-3.0
task_categories:
  - image-to-text
language:
  - en
tags:
  - art
pretty_name: Explain XKCD
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: image
      dtype: image
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 60241
      num_examples: 2
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 311015
      num_examples: 6
  download_size: 358990
  dataset_size: 371256

Dataset Card for Explain XKCD

Dataset Description

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)

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

Citation Information 

@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.