892: Null Hypothesis

Null hypothesis

4/28: Randall Munroe clicks the "random article" link on Wikipedia and writes a comic based on its contents.

4/29: The article is vandalized.

Solution: Track Randall's Wikipedia usage and protect any page he spends more than a minute looking at. The page can safely be deprotected a week later.

886: Pripyat

Pripyat

You know, he could have just said "Chernobyl" and no wiki page would have been harmed in the making of the comic. Just sayin'.

876: Plato's Cave

Allegory of the Cave

You guessed it. Any topic I find myself personally needing to look up on Wikipedia has a very high likelihood of getting vandalized.

804: Pumpkin Carving

Banach-Tarski paradox

A "round about reference" definitely merits a place in the external links section.

800: Beautiful Dream

The Rules

Yes, this strikes me as the sort of page with a definite need for an "In Popular Culture" section.

803: Airfoil

Airfoil

Thumbs up if you're an idiot.

It's like they know it's going to get reverted anyway, so they don't bother with subtlety anymore.

800: The Rules

The Rules

Thought question: How popular does something have to be before you can call it "In Popular Culture"?

792: Password Reuse

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997&action=history

I'm just going to leave that right here.

766: Green Flash

Green flash

Totally relevant.

"Green Flash" sounds like a DC superhero mix-up. I'd read it.

740: The Tell-Tale Beat

Daft Punk

So funny we vandalized it twice!

The page for Tell-Tale Heart wasn't actually vandalized, leading me to the theory that the caliber of genius that resorts to this behavior is not aware of the reference.

Lies, lies, dirty lies

Randall claims not to have foreseen exactly what would come of posting a Wikipedia-related comic.

For extra laffs, see the idiot wonderful individual who didn't catch that the "disambiguation" reference was an attempt at a joke as well as the responses thereto.

739: Malamanteau

Uh-oh, Randall made a Wikipedia-themed comic!

Edit: For clarification, the page didn't exist before yesterday (I think), but there have been countless attempts to create it since. As of last night, the page was a deletion log; today, it redirects to xkcd. The interesting stuff is, as usual, in the discussion and history pages.

738: Operation

Yes, I'm lazy.

But more importantly, someone thought this would be funny. Tell me which is more appalling!

710: Collatz Conjecture

Collatz conjecture

The Adam Conjecture: If fans have to look it up, it will be vandalized. (Check the edit history for over 9000 a ton of unfunny internet meme edits starting March 5.)

705: Sysadmin

System administrator

Four comics in a row, ladies and gentlemen. We're on a roll.

704: Principle of Explosion

Principle of explosion

"If you run a webcomic, you can reference it in any Wikipedia article. It's called the principle of xkcd."

"Any Wikipedia article? Let me try."

703: Tautology Club

Tautology

That was quick.

702: Snow and stuff

Higgs boson

This just in: xkcd lacks relevancy.

Twofer

695: Spirit rover
"Perhaps." Huh.


696: Prisoner's dilemma
Yeah, that's germaine.


I'm not dead! Just busy! This blog still updates, ladies and gentlemen.

Playing catch-up

Hello, internet. I am back from vacation. Let's see what I missed OH MY GOODNESS

681: Gravitational wells
Yes. This deserves to be in the introduction. Absolutely.

682: Erotic asphyxiation
Curse you for making me look up this article, Randall Munroe. Incidentally, including a reference to Wikipedia inside of the actual comic is a guarantee that Wikipedia will be vandalized as a result of the comic.

Oh, and the edit in question is particularly awful.