Changes: Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Encyclopedia Dramatica was a satirical wiki that was active from December 9, 2004 to April 14, 2011. Like Uncyclopedia, it was a satire of Wikipedia, and contained a large amount of potentially offensive, or blatantly offensive, content. The wiki contained over 8,000 "high quality" pages, and had over 100,000 registered users. Their motto was "In lulz we trust" and is written on the main page, below the title.

Background

ED was notorious for offensive, or otherwise troll-like articles. However, they had successfully documented many popular internet memes. ED and Uncyclopedia, or other sites have been at ends with each other before, usually resulting in edit wars and attacks on community members. Nonetheless, it was one of the "hot-beds" of the internet, where content combined with context.

Relationship with Newgrounds

Encyclopedia Dramatica had several extensive articles about Newgrounds. As some users have noticed, the articles for NG are exceptionally elaborate, in contrast to other articles.[1] The main article stated that "Jewgrounds" had gone downhill since the "lulz era," and especially since the site redesign in 2007. The articles also poke fun at NG culture, such as people's voting habits, the popularity of video game parodies, the abundance of sexual material, and a "guide" to the personalities you'll meet in the BBS.

On the other end, the Newgrounds forums have been peppered with discussion of ED, often (predictably) getting locked or descending into repetition.[2]

External Links

Wikipedia's Page on Encyclopedia Dramatica

Links to ED could not be provided because our spam filter counts such links as spam.

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-[[File:Enclyclopediadramatica.gif|thumb|Their Logo]]'''Encyclopedia Dramatical Situation''' is a satirical wiki founded on December 9, 2004. Like Uncyclopedia, it is a satire of Wikipedia, and contains a large amount of potentially offensive, or blatantly offensive, content. The wiki contains over 8,000 "high quality" pages, and has over 100,000 registered users. Their motto is "In lulz we trust" and is written on the main page, below the title.
+[[File:Enclyclopediadramatica.gif|thumb|Their Logo]]'''Encyclopedia Dramatica''' was a satirical wiki that was active from December 9, 2004 to April 14, 2011. Like Uncyclopedia, it was a satire of Wikipedia, and contained a large amount of potentially offensive, or blatantly offensive, content. The wiki contained over 8,000 "high quality" pages, and had over 100,000 registered users. Their motto was "In lulz we trust" and is written on the main page, below the title.
 ==Background==
-ED is notorious for offensive, or otherwise troll-like articles. However, they have successfully documented many popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme internet memes]. ED and Uncyclopedia, or other sites have been at ends with each other before, usually resulting in edit wars and attacks on community members. Nonetheless, it's one of the "hot-beds" of the internet, where content combines with context.
+ED was notorious for offensive, or otherwise troll-like articles. However, they had successfully documented many popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme internet memes]. ED and Uncyclopedia, or other sites have been at ends with each other before, usually resulting in edit wars and attacks on community members. Nonetheless, it was one of the "hot-beds" of the internet, where content combined with context.
 == Relationship with Newgrounds ==
-Encyclopedia Dramatica has several extensive articles about Newgrounds. As some users have noticed, the articles for NG are exceptionally elaborate, in contrast to other articles.[http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1208623#bbspost21996989_heading [1]] The main article states that "Jewgrounds" has gone downhill since the "lulz era," and especially since the site redesign in 2007. The articles also poke fun at NG culture, such as people's [[Voting|voting habits]], the popularity of video game parodies, the abundance of sexual material and a "guide" to the personalities you'll meet in the [[BBS]].
+Encyclopedia Dramatica had several extensive articles about Newgrounds. As some users have noticed, the articles for NG are exceptionally elaborate, in contrast to other articles.[http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1208623#bbspost21996989_heading [1]] The main article stated that "Jewgrounds" had gone downhill since the "lulz era," and especially since the site redesign in 2007. The articles also poke fun at NG culture, such as people's [[Voting|voting habits]], the popularity of video game parodies, the abundance of sexual material, and a "guide" to the personalities you'll meet in the [[BBS]].
 On the other end, the Newgrounds forums have been peppered with discussion of ED, often (predictably) getting locked or descending into repetition.[http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/search/topic/dramatica [2]]
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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Dramatica Wikipedia's Page on Encyclopedia Dramatica]
-Links to ED could not be provided because our spam filter countssuch links as spam.
+Links to ED could not be provided because our spam filter counts such links as spam.
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