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=Encyclopædia Dramatica=

Encyclopædia Dramatica (ED) is a MediaWiki-based Wiki launched on December 9, 2004. Entries of ED primarily focus on parody of Internet jargon, mock encyclopædia articles and hyperboleic stories regarding the creators of Blogs, particularly on LiveJournal.

==History==

Encyclopædia Dramatica s history began when a LiveJournal blogger from . The article was subsequently deleted, despite campaigning by LiveJournal users to keep the article.

Several LiveJournal users, including and other internet phenomena.

Since its creation, the Encyclopædia Dramatica has grown to over 2000 articles. By .

==Types of content==

Many ED articles have from his limousine.

Other common themes include:

Internet Law , with a crash course on libel, slander and Copyright as applied to web forums;

*Articles about the world s countries that identify the number of 7-11 stores (and thus, Slurpee availability) as an important marker of world status; *Mocking the self-important; *Presenting an article as encyclopedic, yet breaking its established tone by reverting to a satirical commentary or criticism.

The Encyclopædia Dramatica makes sporadic attempts to weed out wiki pages that are , a term for which the encyclopedia has its own definition. Critics charge that most of the site s jokes are repetitions of identical joke-telling formulas, whereas fans typically revel in the site s specific brand of internet humor.

As on other wikis, the administrators may temporarily ban users who make changes they consider unacceptable. Because the MediaWiki software blocks IP addresses rather than 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.

==Categories==

Encyclopædia Dramatica has a number of categories, which users can use as navigational aids. These categories cover topics such as LiveJournal, yiff, sex, psychology, fan fiction and Internet trolls. The categories are rarely changed. While most of the encyclopedia is open content, the administrators forbid creation of new categories by non-admin editors.

==Conflicts==

Many of the articles on Encyclopædia Dramatica are directly related to the users of the world s largest blogging community, LiveJournal. Critics have charged that articles that caricature people exaggerate the facts for the purpose of humor may border on personal attack at times. The flare-up when these users come to Encyclopædia Dramatica to edit their own articles or threaten to employ vexatious litigation to remove the content provides additional humor to those who visit the site.

*In August 2005, a DMCA notice was issued against Uncyclopedia and Wikipedia seeking the removal of a picture of Sherrod DeGrippo and, for Uncyclopedia, the Encyclopædia Dramatica logo because the current copyright notice states that they were not authorized to host these images.

== See also ==

*LiveJournal *LJ Drama

== External links ==

*[http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Main_Page Encyclopædia Dramatica]