Encyclopedia Dramatica (Encyclopaedia), No more MediaWiki? Options

[MZMcBride]

Anyone been following Encyclopedia Dramatica? It seems they've changed formats. I'm kind of surprised to not see a thread about it here already, though it's certainly possible I just missed it. Or maybe this place is just kinda dead at the moment.

[Daniel Brandt]

Meepsheep and Zaiger are two out of a total of only 12 admins on the new ED, encyclopediadramatica.ch. They are fair game — ED.ch was started by "Ryan," over Sherrod's DMCA objections, by pulling the old ED.com content from Google's cache and from archive.org. Believe it or not, ED.ch is more vulgar than the old ED.com.

I don't know about Meepsheep, but Mr. Zaiger, age 31, should know better than to team up with Ryan, age 21, who uses his botnet to illegally flood his enemies with DDoS attacks and then brags about it openly. Ryan DDoSed Sony last month, he DDoSed Dreamhost on April 30, and three days ago sent thousands of emails to the Gmail address used by josephevers.blogspot.com. Ryan used to be a prominent "leader" of Anonymous, but recently declared war on the other "leaders" of Anonymous.

Wikipedia Review has no business allowing someone like Zaiger to post here. I'd recommend blocking him, but then Ryan might DDoS this board. At that point I fear that WR's hosting provider would invite WR to find other hosting. WR may prefer to just get used to the idea that they are being held hostage by Zaiger.

By the way, Scroogle.org was DDoSed at the same time that Ryan was sending thousands of emails to the owner of josephevers.blogspot.com (I am not the owner of that blog, but I support it). At Scroogle I blocked 5,869 unique IPs until the DDoSing stopped hours later. Each IP was attempting to continuously flood Scroogle with search requests. Ryan's botnet is suspect because it happened simultaneously with the mailbombing of the blog. Unfortunately, not enough is known about Ryan's botnet to draw a firm conclusion. Here is a breakdown of the countries of origin of the IP addresses that attacked Scroogle:

Percentage of 5,869 unique IPs by country of origin
51 percent, China
20 percent, United States
5 percent, Hong Kong
5 percent, Indonesia
4 percent, Taiwan
1 percent, Brazil
1 percent, Russian Federation
1 percent, Ukraine
12 percent, all other countries combined