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==Content==
==Content==
* Encyclopedia Dramatica.com is illigal pornographic website.
This wiki has been characterized as "an online compendium of troll humor and lore".<ref name="schwartz"/> Its articles relate to news, current events, gossip and other "drama" topics from across [[the web]], utilize controversial article content, placement and correlation to portray the issues and reflect the variety of perspectives held by its editors regarding the subject matter covered.
* This company has been filed by compaints to Law Enforcement Agency.


* The site that makes everything illegal and imaginable ugly pornography.
Forums, [[fansite]]s, Internet subculture, users of web services,<ref name="Dee" /> and online [[catchphrase]]s are satirized in a manner described variously as coarse, offensive and frequently obscene.<ref name="ninemsn">{{cite web| url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=459249 |last=Davies |first=Shaun |title=Critics point finger at satirical website |publisher=[[ninemsn]] |date=[[2008-05-08]]|accessdate=2008-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/346385/what-the-hell-are-4chan-ed-something-awful-and-b |last=Douglas |first=Nick |title=What The Hell Are 4chan, ED, Something Awful, And 'b'? |publisher=[[Gawker.com]] |date=[[2008-01-18]]|accessdate=2008-08-25}}</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"/> Articles at Encyclopædia Dramatica are notably critical of [[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> and administrators of [[Wikipedia]].<ref name="Dee" />
1. Incredibly liberal or conservative
2. Showing themselves and others as shame of America
3. Basic concept of this website is Ripp-off
4. Degrade same sex, gayand lesbian society
5. Depicts Sodomy and other abnormal sex activities in public
6. Provide pornography to minor ages

<Name of Company & Address>
*Private Registrant : encyclopediadramatica.com
*Address : 417 Associated Rd #324
Brea, CA 92821
*Country : USA
*Phone : (213)947-1032
*E-Mail : encyclopediadramatica.com@proxy.dreamhost.com
*A Happy DreamHost Customer


==Media attention==
==Media attention==

Revision as of 06:36, 29 December 2008

Encyclopædia Dramatica
Official site logo
A screenshot of Encyclopædia Dramatica
Type of site
Satirical wiki
Available inEnglish
OwnerSherrod DeGrippo[1]("Girlvinyl")
RevenueAdvertising and donations
URLencyclopediadramatica.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional (required to edit pages)

Encyclopædia Dramatica is a website that catalogs and/or satirizes current events and themes, especially Internet-related ones. It has been described as a "snarky Wikipedia anti-fansite".[3]

The site is a wiki, running MediaWiki software,[4][5] that primarily presents its subject matter in an irreverent, obtuse, politically incorrect[6] and often abusive style,[7] using links and cross references intentionally made to appear comprehensive, with copious use of pornographic and shocking images. Many articles are written in a satirical manner to upset those who take the content seriously; this practice of provoking people into an emotional response is known on the Internet as trolling.[1][6][8] The emotional responses are then added to the articles, often in a derogatory or inflammatory manner, with the purpose of provoking further emotional response. The site claims that it is "[d]one in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary".[2]

Content

  • Encyclopedia Dramatica.com is illigal pornographic website.
  • This company has been filed by compaints to Law Enforcement Agency.
  • The site that makes everything illegal and imaginable ugly pornography.

1. Incredibly liberal or conservative 2. Showing themselves and others as shame of America 3. Basic concept of this website is Ripp-off 4. Degrade same sex, gayand lesbian society 5. Depicts Sodomy and other abnormal sex activities in public 6. Provide pornography to minor ages

<Name of Company & Address>

  • Private Registrant : encyclopediadramatica.com
  • Address  : 417 Associated Rd #324
                     Brea, CA 92821
  • Country  : USA
  • Phone  : (213)947-1032
  • E-Mail  : encyclopediadramatica.com@proxy.dreamhost.com
  • A Happy DreamHost Customer

Media attention

The website received mainstream media attention after Jason Fortuny used Encyclopædia Dramatica to post photographs, e-mails and phone numbers from one hundred and seventy-six responses to a Craigslist advertisement he posted in 2006, in which he posed as a woman seeking sexual encounters with dominant men.[1][4][5]

Encyclopædia Dramatica has been cited as a reference on Internet culture by the print media publication the New Statesman,[9] as well as the AlterNet,[10] Language Log[11] and Londonist weblogs.[12] It has recently gained recognition as an authority on imageboard (especially 4chan) slang, culture and Internet memes by on-line magazines such as Wired.[8][7][13]

The convergence of Project Chanology, specifically the anti-Scientology campaign, with Encyclopædia Dramatica was noted by technology journalist Julian Dibbell.[14] Because the wiki is a central catalog for parody and satire of interesting things happening on the Internet,[6] it has served as a place for members of Anonymous to mingle,[6][15][16] for purposes of keeping up with ever-changing lingo, understanding new memes and following the campaigns of others.[15] In one such instance this awareness resulted in a cooperative effort to indict a man who may have solicited sex from minors,[17] but journalist Ryan Singel has referred to the website as "the world's stupidest wiki",[16] for reasons that include documented inside jokes by members of Anonymous about their harassment tactics and bravado.[16]

Awards

On December 16, 2008, Encyclopedia Dramatica beat out WikiHow and Wikipedia in the People's Choice Winners category for favourite wiki in Mashable's 2nd Annual Open Web Awards.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b c Schwartz, Mattathias (3 August 2008). "Malwebolence". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2008-08-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ a b http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Encyclopedia_Dramatica:About Retrieved on 25 May 2008.
  3. ^ 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}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ a b Chonin, Neva (2006-09-17). "Sex and the City". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications. p. 20. Retrieved 2008-05-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ a b "Privacy". Warren's Washington Internet Daily. 2006-09-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference ninemsn was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b Peckham, Charles (2008-02-01). "Encyclopedia Dramatica". Chico News & Review. Retrieved 2008-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ a b 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}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  9. ^ Hogge, Betty (2008-06-05). "A lesson in hai culture". The New Statesman. Retrieved 2008-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Cassel, David (2007-03-08). "John Edwards' Virtual Attackers Unmasked". AlterNet. Retrieved 2008-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Zimmer, Benjamin (2007-05-18). "Lol-lexicography". Language Log. Retrieved 2008-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "Anonymous Protests Outside Scientology Sites". Londonist. 2008-02-11. Retrieved 2008-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ Himmelein, Gerald (2008-02-28). "Das Trollparadies". c't. Heise Zeitschriften Verlag. p. 100. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. ^ Dibbell, Julian (2008-07-11). Sympathy for the Griefer:MOOrape, Lulz cubes, and Other Lessons from the First 2 Decades of Online Sociopathy. Madison, Wisconsin: Games, Learning and Society 4.0. Retrieved 2008-07-11. {{cite conference}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |publisher= (help)
  15. ^ a b Whipple, Tom (2008-06-20). "Scientology: the Anonymous protestors". Times Online. Retrieved 2008-06-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ a b c Singel, Ryan (2008-09-19). "Palin Hacker Group's All-Time Greatest Hits". Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  17. ^ "Anonymous operation leads to pedophile conviction". 2006. Global Television Network. {{cite episode}}: External link in |title= (help); Missing or empty |series= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  18. ^ Mashable Open Web Awards Winners, retrieved 2008-12-16
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