| abstract | - Has anyone else stumbled across (or indeed is a member of) this lot (ED). They seem to be reasonably similar (although maybe a bit more "Agressive") in style to us. I've requested they be added to the Interwiki Map so we can easily link to them if wanted, given the lack (as far as I could see) of any explicit License beyond Their General Disclaimer page] and "all contributions to Encyclopedia Dramatica are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License" on the edit page I don't know if we could (if we should is a diffrent matter) copy/spork their stuff.--Elvis 15:35, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC) Well, they are far more crass and less sophisticated than we are. At the same time, I think it would be an excellent place to point some of our users who don't fit our style. From the 10 minutes of browsing I did, I didn't see a lot of value to us there. They are a clearly stated satire/shock/horror site, where we try to hide the fact that we're doing the same. To mix cultural metaphors, they're Mad TV and we're early Monty Python sketches. Both have their place, but aren't really mixable. --Famine 17:28, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC) I've been to the site a few times. I think the television metaphor is apt: Encyclopediadramatica, from what I've seen, is a more over-the-top site, whereas Uncyclopedia (in its best articles, anyway) is more subtle and usually hangs on to some semblance of reality. I can see how people might find ED humorous, but it's not my cuppa. --Rcmurphy 17:54, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC) Wow. Uncyc just got called subtle. --Sophia 23:17, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC) Well, I did say in the best articles. In the others, well, let's not speak of them. --Rcmurphy 03:09, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC) I think that a better analogy would be we are to platinum what ED is to hamster poo. --Savethemooses 22:01, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC) I was thinking about this in the bath and came up they are Johnny Rotten to our Noel Coward (or maybe their Young Ones to our News Quiz for UK readers). --Elvis 20:00, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC) They're definately a lot smaller, and I agree their style is less sofisticated, but because they're smaller, they've got a more specific style. Sometimes just grab stuff from the net though (stuff that's been seen a million times before). Whereas we're usually creating new lore, new stories, new images, new myths etc etc. They do seem to have a lot less garabage than we have, but he only reason we get more crap is because we're bigger. --TheLibrarian 23:10, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC) Encyclopædia Dramatica seems to have a far more narrowly-defined stated mission than Uncyclopedia: primarily mocking individual users of various Intarweb sites (as gay, fat and the like) or parodying the sites themselves. See also: . --Carlb 14:06, 30 Jul 2005 (UTC) ED:Main Page due to Angela's usualy effiency it has now been added as interwiki, I may even knock up a {{wikipedia}} like {{encyclopediadramatica}} template --Elvis 10:16, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC) Part of the reason they have some much less garbage may be because they are so heavy with the Ban Stick with over over 150 users out of less than 1.5K users whereas we have like 5 (registered) users banned out of 2.5K (registered) users, dunno if thats nesecarily an argument for us to swing the stick a bit harder however. --Elvis 01:47, 31 Jul 2005 (UTC) Actually, I believe you may have missed the "You have to login to edit pages." bit. I'd put some solid Dineros on the fact that that cuts down on the garbage big time. While it's not really the wiki way, I lean towards it, as it allows you to get to know people better. IPs are hard to remember and can change - a name + a history is a lot less forgettable. --Famine 03:10, 31 Jul 2005 (UTC) No I didn't miss it, interestingly even with anon edits we still have less bans (IP and User bans), their admins are definetly more abitary though, I got told off for using a interwiki link that pointed to the wikipedia page about the liscence they were using, in talk space as well! (makes you wonder why they don't remove the interwiki if it annoys them so)--Elvis 03:21, 31 Jul 2005 (UTC)
|
