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>The bot checked to see if the "image" field in the comic template had been altered since the article's creation, and if it has been, it reverted the edit. However it was easily circumvented by setting the "imagesize" field to 1px (shrinking the actual comic down to a single pixel) and embedding the replacement image in the "titletext" field, bypassing the anti-vandalism bot but achieving the same effect of replacing the comic. | >The bot checked to see if the "image" field in the comic template had been altered since the article's creation, and if it has been, it reverted the edit. However it was easily circumvented by setting the "imagesize" field to 1px (shrinking the actual comic down to a single pixel) and embedding the replacement image in the "titletext" field, bypassing the anti-vandalism bot but achieving the same effect of replacing the comic. | ||
>Nearly all wikis use MediaWiki, which has a neat feature called InstantCommons. InstantCommons, if enabled, lets you embed Wikimedia Commons images in articles, and a large percentage of wikis out there did not disable it during setup. What this means is that for most wikis, adding the text [[File:Оsama bin Laden portrait.jpg]] into an article will embed a photo of Bin Laden into it. I have seen wikijannies get completely confused about how all these weird and offensive images "got uploaded to their wiki" without ever figuring out what's actually going on.” | >Nearly all wikis use MediaWiki, which has a neat feature called InstantCommons. InstantCommons, if enabled, lets you embed Wikimedia Commons images in articles, and a large percentage of wikis out there did not disable it during setup. What this means is that for most wikis, adding the text <nowiki>[[File:Оsama bin Laden portrait.jpg]]</nowiki> into an article will embed a photo of Bin Laden into it. I have seen wikijannies get completely confused about how all these weird and offensive images "got uploaded to their wiki" without ever figuring out what's actually going on.” | ||
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XKCD is a webcomic that soyjak enjoys reading. It's been compared to Rick and Morty, but I think XKCD has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. The Door was first mentioned in this webcomic.
Wiki raids
In early 2023, there was a bone-chilling form of raids which involved vandalizing ExplainXKCD with subtle references to gems, soy speak, Cobson, Sneed and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, as well as replacing important images from the wiki with 'jaks and coinslot. It along with the front page was also severly vandalised with gemmy images from wikimedia commons and other scripts in July causing much seethe but as of December 2023, this gemmy form of raiding is largely gone, but you WILL revive it. See Vandalism