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Encyclopedia Dramatica
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Encyclopedia Dramatica (sometimes styled as Encyclopædia Dramatica) is a parody of Internet encyclopedias such as Misplaced Pages, written on a wiki, using the MediaWiki engine. It uses apparently comprehensive referencing and linking, but is written in a satirical, intentionally politically incorrect, and often abusive style. Many of the articles are written in an ironic manner with the express purpose of upsetting those who take the content seriously (an activity known on the Internet as trolling). The site itself claims that it is "one in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary."

The content is wide-ranging, covering gossip and "drama" in other Internet forums, Internet subculture, users of web services, and online catchphrases, in a manner that has been variously described as coarse, offensive and frequently obscene.

Articles at Encyclopedia Dramatica criticize MySpace as well as Misplaced Pages and its administrators. The site received mainstream media attention after Jason Fortuny used the Encyclopedia Dramatica to post photographs, e-mails, and phone numbers from 176 responses to a Craigslist advertisement he posted in 2006 posing as a woman seeking sexual encounters with dominant men.

Encyclopedia Dramatica has been cited as a reference on the topic of Internet culture by The Observer, and blogs such as AlterNet, Language Log, and the Gothamist network. It is cited as an authority on imageboard (such as 4chan) slang and culture and Internet memes by Wired and others. Encyclopedia Dramatica has been used as a planning hub for Project Chanology. Anonymous also used ED as a planning hub for other operations including one that led to the arrest of a Canadian child sexual abuser.

References

  1. ^ Dee, Jonathan (2007-07-01). "All the News That's Fit to Print Out". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2008-05-17. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ Chonin, Neva (2006-09-17). "Sex and the City". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications. pp. p.20. {{cite news}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Text "accessdate-2008-05-14" ignored (help)
  3. ^ "Privacy". Warren's Washington Internet Daily. 2006-09-12.
  4. ^ Davies, Shaun (2008-05-08). "Critics point finger at satirical website". National Nine News.
  5. ^ Peckham, Charles (2008-02-01). "Encyclopedia Dramatica". newsreview.com.
  6. ^ Dibbell, Julian (2008-01-18). "Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World". Wired (16.02). San Francisco: Condé Nast Publications. Retrieved 2008-05-17. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. "Encyclopedia Dramatica:About", http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Encyclopedia_Dramatica:About
  8. Douglas, Nick (2008-01-18). "What The Hell Are 4chan, ED, Something Awful, And 'b'?". Gawker.com.
  9. "2 Do: Monday, December 26". RedEye Edition. Chicago Tribune. 2005-12-16. pp. p. 2. {{cite news}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  10. ^ Mitchell, John (2006-05-20). "Megabits and Pieces: The latest teen hangout". North Adams Transcript.
  11. Hind, John. (2005-06-05). "What's the word?". The Observer. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  12. Cassel, David (2007-03-08). "John Edwards' Virtual Attackers Unmasked". AlterNet.
  13. Zimmer, Benjamin (2007-05-18). "Lol-lexicography". Language Log.
  14. "Anonymous Protests Outside Scientology Sites". Londonist. 2009-02-11.
  15. Himmelein, Gerald (2008-02-28). "Das Trollparadies". c't. Heise Zeitschriften Verlag. pp. p.100. {{cite news}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  16. "Anonymous operation leads to pedophile conviction". 2006. Global Television Network. {{cite episode}}: Missing or empty |series= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

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