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<div>'''Encyclopædia Dramatica''' (also known as '''ED''', sometimes mistakenly called '''Encyclopedia Discordia''' or misspelt '''Encyclopedia Dramatica''') is a controversial parody of [[Wikipedia:Wiki|wikis]] and wiki communities. Encyclopædia Dramatica is perhaps best known among furs for when when a person hacked into [[FurAffinity]] and posted the results on ED, causing that site's shutdown.<br />
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Encyclopædia Dramatica was founded by Joseph Evers after a vanity page of a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]] named [[Wikipedia:User:Jameth|Jameth]] was deleted. From there, Joseph founded Encyclopædia Dramatica to be a 'funny' version of Wikipedia. Today, this humor usually takes the form of presenting misinformation about a subject and then attacking the subject, treating the misinformation as facts.<br />
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==Criticisms==<br />
The most common criticism of Encylopædia Dramatica, other than it being filled being with falsehoods, is that there is little editorial control; the primary forms of control are requiring registration to edit and only allowing administrators to edit articles in certain namespaces. Additionally, users are banned who are found to be 'unfunny'. Being 'unfunny' can include using the English language correctly, adding facts to an article, removing falsehoods from an article, adding content that is actually funny, or removing tired old bad jokes from an article. What is funny is based on what the admininstrators think is funny; given that the admininstrators actively editing every month or two, the criteria for "unfunniness" constantly changes as well. Most admins on the site are minors (according to the profile pages in their [[LiveJournals]]) and therefore attuned to humor for that age demographic.<br />
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The text of Encyclopædia Dramatica, unlike most wikis, is not licensed; copyright violations are common, and even encouraged. Ironically, ED is also very litigious, frequently using the threat of lawsuits and [[Wikipedia:Digital Millennium Copyright Act|DCMA]] takedown notices to anyone who refers to it in tones other than positive. <br />
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==[[FurAffinity]]==<br />
In August of 2005, FurAffinity was the target of a prolonged hacking attempt against its servers. The intruders took over administrator accounts, used them to post anti-semitic messages in the administration message space (thus putting these messages on the top of every page of FA), and then taunted the community by posting passwords to the FurAffinity [[LiveJournal]]. Later, a complete list of users and their passwords was posted on Encyclopædia Dramatica; it has since been deleted (users are not allowed to view the Encyclopædia Dramatica deletion logs).<br />
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==THE TRUTH!!!!1115555fifty-five!!!==<br />
The truth is, no one gives a flying fuck what people on this website think because they are a bunch of dirty, faggy, downtrotten, no-good, filthy, gay, faggot furries.<br />
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==[[GreenReaper]]==<br />
GreenReaper, founder of [[WikiFur]], has contributed to ED's [http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/WikiFur WikiFur article]. He justifies this on the basis of "The only bad publicity is no publicity!", although particularly in reference to [[Something Awful]] (which brought major traffic and many contributors to the site).<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Encyclopædia Dramatica|Encyclopædia Dramatica]] on Wikipedia<br />
*[http://uncyclopedia.org/ Uncyclopedia], a similar project<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com Encyclopædia Dramatica] (Link is not work-safe, though turning images off may solve this)<br />
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