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Encyclopædia Dramatica (ED) is a MediaWiki-based wiki.

Since its creation, according to automatically generated statistics, Encyclopædia Dramatica has grown to over 3300 articles as of July 2006, with over 8000 registered users.

In January of 2006, the hacking group Bantown used Encyclopædia Dramatica to announce they had hacked 900,000 LiveJournal accounts exploiting cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in LiveJournal's core code.

Types of content

Most ED articles avoid a "neutral point of view" and encourage sarcasm, hyperbole, and other kinds of humor mocking the article's subject. ED articles are not required to be referenced or have any basis in fact.

The Encyclopædia Dramatica makes sporadic attempts to weed out wiki pages that are "unfunny", a term for which the encyclopedia has its own particularized definition. The administrators may ban users who in their personal viewpoint create "unfunny" articles; this viewpoint varies from administrator to administrator. Because the MediaWiki software blocks IP addresses as well as user accounts, those who share an IP address with a banned user will also be blocked. The site's policy, as currently written, does not protect users from being banned by the administrators. The site has not made the effort to ban open proxy servers, so banning based on IP address does not always work.

Example themes include:

  • Criticism of Misplaced Pages, its editors, admins, and policies.
  • Social and political commentary
  • Display of sexual images
  • "Drama" from LiveJournals and websites.
  • Internet celebrities
  • "Internet Law", with a crash course on libel, slander and copyright as applied to web forums
  • "Old memes" such as "in the ass", "16 year old girls", "13 year old boys", "42", "7-11," and "At least 100 years ago".
  • Mocking subcultures like emo, goths, the "self-important",

and various computer and internet-related subcultures revolving around things from programming to gaming .

  • Mocking of furries.
  • Presenting an article as encyclopedic, while delivering satirical commentary or criticism.
  • Purposeful misinformation

References

  1. Encyclopedia Dramatica statistics page
  2. Washington Post Blog on account exploit
  3. Infoworld on account exploit

See also

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