Michael Snow wrote:
Or instead, we could look at this dispassionately. I
notice that the
interwiki map includes World66 and Wikitravel, two travel guide wikis
owned by a commercial enterprise called Internet Brands. Thus links to
these sites can avoid the nofollow attribute, even though they would be
direct competition for World Wikia, the travel guide Wikia launched to
some fanfare last year. World66 even carries Google ads just like Wikia.
On the basis of the evidence, what reason is there to think that Wikia
has taken advantage of its founders' relationship with Wikimedia to get
preferential treatment? Maybe somebody will think they can still make
that case, but please look at the full picture instead of leaping to
conclusions from a single piece of information.
Because of the nature of the request to have nofollow turned off for
interwiki links, and the denial of the patch to fix the problem. The
competing wikis were more of an oversight, I'd assume, than anything
else, given the evidence.
-Jeff
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