[WikiEN-l] XKCD in Popular Culture

[Rory Stolzenberg]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Elias Friedman <elipongo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:48 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > He's released stuff when we ask nicely for a good reason, e.g.
> >
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Xkcd_philosophy.png
> >
> >
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester.png
> >
> > And he is of course [[User:Xkcd]] :-)
> >
>
>
> Interesting. The first image doesn't have an OTRS ticket and there's a
> Spanish version of the second image:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Agitador_wikipedista.png
>
> And I did smile when I read his comment about the Article issues template
> on
> his biographical article.
>
> ...*And* while starting my search to improve the references on the
> [[Randall
> Munroe]] article, I was amazed to find that our own two Wikipedia articles
> actually have a higher Google rank than the comic itself does!
>
> Someone should probably drop him a line about getting OTRS tickets for
> "Agitador wikipedista" and "philosophy".
>
> --
> Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P
> elipongo at gmail.com
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elipongo
>


It appears he released it in an edit, since deleted under I8, to
[[en:Image:Xkcd philosophy.png]].