Encyclopædia Dramatica
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Encyclopædia Dramatica (ED) is a satirical wiki intended to poke fun at the Internet. It was launched on December 9, 2004. It parodies both Conservapedia and Wikipedia, as well as parodying both conservatism and liberalism. ED was founded due to anti-Internet bias in Wikipedia, and in a similar way Conservapedia was founded due to liberal bias in Wikipedia. The site contains large quantites of internet shock images.
The Encyclopedia Dramatica userbase contains both liberal and conservative members. Many users come from LiveJournal, a blogging website that contains various communities, some of which are liberal, and others are conservative. Many editors also come from YouTube, which has been considered to have an all-around liberal bias by some conservatives. ED, unlike Uncyclopedia, does not derive humor from fictional locations and nonsense, but instead from satire of various topics, often relating to Internet culture, especially that of sites such as YouTube, deviantART, LiveJournal, Wikipedia and 4chan.
According to one person, the site's take on evolution had a greater "depth" than that on competitor site Uncyclopedia.
Notable mentions
ED was mentioned by the Washington Post, due to a LiveJournal hacking incident in which ED was involved. It was also mentioned by The Guardian.
The most noteworthy mentions were in relation to an Internet privacy violator named Jason Fortuny, who set up a Craigslist experiment in which he posted the names of real people to ED in September 2006. This gave the site worldwide coverage, most notably in MSNBC News and the technology news website Slashdot.
Liberal Bias in Regards to Objects of Satire
Encyclopedia Dramatica has noticeably less biting satire when liberal sacred cows like the evolutionary position are written about. Considering such evolutionist follies as Nebraska man, Haeckel's embryo's and Flipperpithecus, the absence of biting satire in regards to errant positions liberals hold dear can be quite noticeable in Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Allegations of harassment
Controversy has arisen among Wikipedia admins who claimed that there is harassment and privacy violations against these admins on the site, as with MONGO. This led to an ArbCom case in October 2006, which has caused links to the site to be barred from Wikipedia. However, these people do not realize that Wikipedia's article on ED contained a picture of Encyclopedia Dramatica's founder for several months in 2005, which led various WP admins to engage in harassment against this person. The founder was harassed on Uncyclopedia as well.
On August 2005 the picture and name of the founder, as well as the ED logo, led to a DMCA request against both Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia. Another use who had claimed to be harassed by ED DMCAed them in June 2006.
