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|name = Encyclopedia Dramatica |
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|caption = The main page of as of May 14, 2008. |
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|type = [[Satire|Satirical]] [[wiki]] |
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|language = English |
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'''Encyclopedia Dramatica''' is an encyclopedia of dramas and Internets culture, written on a [[wiki]],<ref name="neva">{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/17/PKG6BKQQA41.DTL&type=printable |title=Sex and the City |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |publisher=[[Hearst Communications]] |date=2006-09-17 |accessdate-2008-05-14 |last=Neva |first=Chonin |pages=p.20 }}</ref><ref name="warrens">{{cite news |title=Privacy |work=Warren's Washington Internet Daily |date=2006-09-12}}</ref> using comprehensive referencing and linking, but in a satirical and often lulzy style.{{Fact|date=May 2008}} Many of the articles are written in an ironic manner with the express purpose of lulz. The content is wide-ranging, covering drama and gossip on other internet forums, Internet subculture, users of web services<ref name="Dee">{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=5&oref=slogin |last=Dee |first=Jonathan |title=All the News That's Fit to Print Out |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |work=Magazine |date=2007-07-01 |pages=p. 5, 34}}</ref> and [[Internet meme | online catchphrases]] in a manner described variously as coarse, offensive and frequently obscene.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=459249 |last=Davies |first=Shaun |title=Critics point finger at satirical website |work=National Nine News |date=2008-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/346385/what-the-hell-are-4chan-ed-something-awful-and-b?mail2=true |last=Douglas |first=Nick |title=What The Hell Are 4chan, ED, Something Awful, And 'b'? |work=[[Gawker.com]] |date=2008-01-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=2 Do: Monday, December 26 |publisher=[[Chicago Tribune]] |work=RedEye Edition |date=2005-12-16 |pages=p. 2}}</ref><ref name="northadams"/> |
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Wiki articles at Encyclopedia Dramatica criticize [[MySpace]]<ref name="northadams">{{cite news |last=Mitchell |first=John |title=Megabits and Pieces: The latest teen hangout |work=[[North Adams Transcript]] |date=2006-05-20}}</ref> as well as [[Wikipedia]] and its administrators.<ref name="Dee" /> It has been cited as a reference for [[Internet culture]] by ''[[The Observer]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1497856,00.html |last=Hind |first=John. |title=What's the word? |publisher=''[[The Observer]] |date=2005-06-05}}</ref> and major blogs such as [[AlterNet]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48989/ |last=Cassel |first=David |title=John Edwards' Virtual Attackers Unmasked |work=[[AlterNet]] |date=2007-03-08}}</ref> and the [[Gothamist]] network.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://londonist.com/2008/02/they_came_they.php |title=Anonymous Protests Outside Scientology Sites |publisher=Londonist |date=2009-02-11}}</ref> It received more prominent media attention<ref>{{cite episode|title=Man Posed As a Woman to Elicit Personal Ad Responses |network=[[MSNBC]] |airdate=2006-09-12}}</ref> when [[Jason Fortuny]] used it to post photographs, e-mails, and phone numbers from several dozen men who responded to a [[Craigslist]] advertisement he posted in 2006.<ref name="neva" /><ref name="warrens"/> |
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Encyclopedia Dramatica is cited as an authority on [[Imageboard]] slang and culture by ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=2 |last=Dibbel |first=Julian |title=Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World |work=[[Wired_(magazine)|Wired]] |date=2008-01-18}}</ref> This popularity among the users of imageboard communities like [[4chan]] led [[NBC]] to display screenshots of Encyclopedia Dramatica and state its use as a planning hub in a televised report on [[Project Chanology]]. [[Anonymous (group)|Anonymous]] had been shown in other broadcasts to use ED as a planning hub in other operations including one that led to the arrest of Canadian [[pedophile]] Chris Forcand.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Anonymous operation leads to pedophile conviction |network=[[Global Television Network]] |month=September |year=2006}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
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* [[Internet privacy]] |
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==External Links== |
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[www.encyclopediadramatica.org] |
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