'''Encyclopedia Dramatica''' is a [[wiki]]<ref name="neva">Neva, Chonin. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/17/PKG6BKQQA41.DTL&type=printable "Sex and the City."] ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. 17 September 2006, p. 20.</ref><ref name="warrens">"Privacy." Warren's Washington Internet Daily. 13 September 2006.</ref> which covers "drama"<ref>[http://www.mycrimespace.com/2007/12/10/megan-had-it-coming-is-a-hoax-part-iii-hoax-confirmed/ "Megan Had It Coming is a hoax Part III: Hoax Confirmed"]. ''MyCrimeSpace''. 10 December 2007.</ref> and [[Internet meme]]s in a vulgar style.<ref>Douglas, Nick. [http://gawker.com/346385/what-the-hell-are-4chan-ed-something-awful-and-b?mail2=true "What The Hell Are 4chan, ED, Something Awful, And 'b'?"] ''[[Gawker.com]]''. 18 January 2008.</ref><ref>"2 Do: Monday, December 26." ''[[Chicago Tribune]] RedEye Edition''. 26 December 2005, p. 2.</ref><ref name="northadams"/>

Wiki articles at Encyclopedia Dramatica criticize [[Myspace]]<ref name="northadams">Mitchell, John. "Megabits and Pieces: The latest teen hangout." ''[[North Adams Transcript]]''. 20 May 2006.</ref> as well as [[Wikipedia]] and its administrators.<ref>Jonathan, Dee. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1&ref=media "All the News That's Fit to Print Out."] ''[[New York Times Magazine]],'' 2007, p. 34.</ref> It has been cited as a reference for [[Internet culture]] by [[The Observer]]<ref>Hind, John. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1497856,00.html "What's the word?"] ''[[The Observer]]''. 5 June 2005.</ref>, and major blogs such as [[AlterNet]]<ref>Cassel, David. [http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48989/ "John Edwards' Virtual Attackers Unmasked".] ''[[AlterNet]]''. 8 March 2007.</ref> and the [[Gothamist]] network.<ref>Chen, Alleny. [http://austinist.com/2008/02/11/snapshots_scien.php "Snapshots: Scientology 'Raid' on the Drag".] ''Austinist.'' 11 February 2008.</ref><ref>[http://londonist.com/2008/02/they_came_they.php "Anonymous Protests Outside Scientology Sites".] ''Londonist''. 11 February 2008.</ref> It received more prominent media attention<ref>[http://youtube.com/watch?v=4y6LqhrdAxg "Man Posed As a Woman to Elicit Personal Ad Responses"] [Television production]. [[MSNBC]]. 12 September 2006.</ref> when Jason Fortuny used it to post photographs, e-mails, and phone numbers from several dozen men who responded to a [[Craigslist]] advertisement he posted in 2006.<ref name="warrens"/><ref name="neva"/><ref>Benschop, Lucas. [http://www.nu.nl/news/822915/56/Man_publiceert_reacties_sm-advertentie_op_internet.html "Man publiceert reacties sm-advertentie op internet."] ''Nu.nl'', 11 September 2006.</ref><ref>Bigge, Ryan. [http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20061002_133913_133913&source=srch "Wearing the digital dunce cap."] ''[[Maclean's]]''. 27 September 2006</ref>

Encyclopedia Dramatica is cited as an authority on [[Imageboard]] slang and culture by [[Wired_(magazine)|Wired]]<ref>Dibbel, Julian. [http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=2 "Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World"] ''[[Wired_(magazine)|Wired]]''. 18 January 2008.</ref>. This popularity among the users of imageboard communities like [[4chan]] lead [[NBC]] to display screenshots of Encyclopedia Dramatica and state its use as a planning hub in a televised report on [[Project Chanology]]<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiiKM34sIQA "Scientology Battle"] [Television production]. [[NBC]]. 23 January 2008.</ref>.

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