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In 2006, a group of trolls emailed DeGrippo demanding edits to their article. After refusing to do so, the trolls ordered taxis, pizzas, and escort services, to DeGrippo's home. The troll group also send death threats.<ref>http://www.cripo.com.ua/orphus/orphus.htm</ref> In December 2008, the site claimed they needed donations as they were under attack and had lost its advertisers.<ref>http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/11/briefly-encyclopedia-dramatica-threatens-shutdown</ref>
In 2006, a group of trolls emailed DeGrippo demanding edits to their article. After refusing to do so, the trolls ordered taxis, pizzas, escort services and sent death threats to DeGrippo's.<ref>http://www.cripo.com.ua/?sect_id=3&aid=72759</ref> In December 2008, the site claimed they needed donations as they were under attack and had lost its advertisers.<ref>http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/11/briefly-encyclopedia-dramatica-threatens-shutdown</ref>


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Encyclopædia Dramatica
Official site logo
File:ED Screenshot.jpg
Encyclopædia Dramatica's front page on
September 8, 2008.
Type of site
Satirical wiki
Available inEnglish
OwnerGirlvinyl (Sherrod DeGrippo)[1]
RevenueAdvertising and donations
URLencyclopediadramatica.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional (required to edit pages)

Encyclopædia Dramatica is a wiki, running MediaWiki software.[3] Launched on December 9, 2004, it satirizes both encyclopedic topics and current events, especially those related to or relevant to Internet culture. The wiki has been the subject of media attention given its focus on trolling and use of shock value, as well as its criticism of other Internet communities. It is also associated with the Internet subculture Anonymous.

Content

Encyclopædia Dramatica was founded in 2004 by Sherrod Degrippo also known as "Girlvinyl".[1][2] It characterizes itself as "[d]one in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary".[2] The New York Times has characterized the wiki as "an online compendium of troll humor and troll lore"[4] that it labeled a "troll archive".[4] C't, a European magazine for IT-professionals, referred to it as a "troll paradise",[5] with an author saying that it is a platform from which to initiate "exchange between the sensitive and the cruel" in order to achieve the "joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium" because it "intentionally disrupts online communities" whose members have an "emotional investment" in them.[4] Encyclopædia Dramatica defines trolling in terms of doing things "for the lulz" (for laughs),[6] a phrase that it qualifies as "a catchall explanation for any trolling you do".[6]

The targets of this trolling come from "every pocket of the Web",[7] to include not only the non-corporeal aspects of Internet phenomena, (e.g. online catchphrases, fan pages, forums, and viral phenomena), but also real people (e.g. amateur celebrities, identifiable internet drama participants and even Encyclopædia Dramatica's own forum members).[7][8] These are derided in a manner described variously as "coarse", "offensive", "obscene",[9][10] "irreverent, obtuse, politically incorrect",[11] "crude but hilarious",[7] "crude and abusive".[12] The material is presented to appear comprehensive, with extensive use of shock-value prose, drawings, photographs, and the like. The emotional responses are then added to the articles, often in similarly derogatory or inflammatory manner, with the purpose of provoking further emotional response. Adherents of the practice assert that visitors to the website "shouldn't take anything said on Dramatica seriously."[11]

Articles at Encyclopædia Dramatica are notably critical of MySpace[9] as well as users on YouTube, LiveJournal, DeviantART, and Wikipedia. In The New York Times Magazine, journalist Jonathan Dee described it as a "snarky Wikipedia anti-fansite".[8] Shaun Davies of Australia's Nine Network has called it "Wikipedia's bastard child, a compendium of internet trends and culture which lampoons every subject it touches."[11] The site "is run like Wikipedia, but its style is the opposite; most of its information is biased and opinionated, not to mention racist, homophobic, and spiteful, but on the upside its snide attitude makes it spot-on about most Internet memes it covers."[13] This coverage of Internet jargon and memes has been acknowledged in the New Statesman,[14] on Language Log,[15] in C't magazine,[5] and in Wired magazine.[7]

In 2006, a group of trolls emailed DeGrippo demanding edits to their article. After refusing to do so, the trolls ordered taxis, pizzas, escort services and sent death threats to DeGrippo's.[16] In December 2008, the site claimed they needed donations as they were under attack and had lost its advertisers.[17]

Attention

In the media

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.[4][3]

The website is best known for serving as a platform for members of the group known as "Anonymous", making Encyclopædia Dramatica a "favourite target for critics, who accuse Anonymous of propagating hate."[11] Through its association with members of Anonymous, Encyclopædia Dramatica received incidental coverage when actions by members of the group led to the arrest of an alleged pedophile,[18] when they demonstrated against Scientology in London;[19][20] when a member of Anonymous broke into the e-mail account of former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin,[21] and when a member of Anonymous claimed credit for an attack on the virtual Second Life headquarters of former presidential candidate John Edwards.[22] The convergence of Encyclopædia Dramatica with the anti-Scientology campaign of Project Chanology was noted by technology journalist Julian Dibbell.[23]

Awards

On December 16, 2008, Encyclopædia Dramatica won the 'People's Choice Winners' category for favorite wiki in Mashable's 2nd Annual Open Web Awards.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b 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 c http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Encyclopedia_Dramatica:About. Retrieved on May 25, 2008.
  3. ^ a b Chonin, Neva (September 17, 2006), "Sex and the City", San Francisco Chronicle, p. 20, retrieved August 11, 2009.
  4. ^ a b c d Schwartz, Mattathias (August 3, 2008), "The Trolls Among Us", The New York Times Magazine, p. 24, retrieved August 11, 2009.
  5. ^ a b Himmelein, Gerald (February 28, 2008), "Das Trollparadies", C't, p. 100.
  6. ^ a b Tsotsis, Alexia (February 04, 2009), "My Date With Anonymous: A Rare Interview With the Elusive Internet Troublemakers", LA Weekly, retrieved August 11, 2009 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
  7. ^ a b c d Dibbell, Julian (January 18, 2008), "Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World", Wired, no. 16.02, retrieved August 11, 2009.
  8. ^ a b Dee, Jonathan (July 1, 2007), "All the News That's Fit to Print Out", The New York Times Magazine, p. 5, retrieved August 11, 2009.
  9. ^ a b Mitchell, John (May 20, 2006), "Megabits and Pieces: The Latest Teen Hangout", North Adams Transcript.
  10. ^ Staff Writer (December 16, 2005), "2 Do: Monday, December 26", Chicago Tribune RedEye Edition, p. 2.
  11. ^ a b c d Davies, Shaun (August 5, 2008), "Critics point finger at satirical website", 9-News, retrieved August 11, 2009.
  12. ^ Peckham, Charles (February 1, 2008), "Encyclopedia Dramatica" ([dead link] – Scholar search), Chico News & Review {{citation}}: External link in |format= (help).
  13. ^ Douglas, Nick (January 18, 2008), "What The Hell Are 4chan, ED, Something Awful, And 'b'?", ValleyWag, gawker.com, retrieved August 25, 2008.
  14. ^ Hogge, Betty (June 5, 2008), "A lesson in hai culture", The New Statesman.
  15. ^ Zimmer, Benjamin (May 18, 2007), "Lol-lexicography", Language Log, retrieved August 25, 2008.
  16. ^ http://www.cripo.com.ua/?sect_id=3&aid=72759
  17. ^ http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/11/briefly-encyclopedia-dramatica-threatens-shutdown
  18. ^ Kim, Gus (July 12, 2007), "Anonymous operation leads to arrest of alleged pedophile", Global Television Network News.
  19. ^ Whipple, Tom (June 20, 2008), "Scientology: the Anonymous protestors", The Times, retrieved August 11, 2009.
  20. ^ Lee, Joe (February 11, 2008), "Anonymous Protests Outside Scientology Sites", Londonist, londonist.com, retrieved August 25, 2008.
  21. ^ Singel, Ryan (August 19, 2008), "Palin Hacker Group's All-Time Greatest Hits", Wired, blog.wired.com, retrieved August 25, 2008.
  22. ^ Cabron, Lou (August 3, 2007), "John Edwards' Virtual Attackers Unmasked", AlterNet, alternet.org, retrieved August 25, 2008.
  23. ^ Dibbell, Julian (2008), "Sympathy for the Griefer: MOOrape, Lulz Cubes, and Other Lessons From the First 2 Decades of Online Sociopathy", GLS Conference 4.0, Madison, Wisconsin: Games, Learning and Society Group, retrieved November 7, 2008.
  24. ^ Cashmore, Pete (December 16, 2008), "People's Choice Winners", Open Web Awards Winners, mashable.com, retrieved August 11, 2009.
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