On 1/21/07, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 12:06:04 AM, Anthony wrote:
What about links to sister projects, like Wikinews? It seems some of those projects could benefit greatly from the links not being nofollowed.
I checked it and links to Wikinews do not have Nofollow, if you use the {{wikinews}} template.
Internal links, interwiki links and external links are treated separately in the code. Brion has turned on nofollow for all external links by changing a setting in the site configuration, but this only affects external links. The setting can be applied only to certain namespaces; before now, for example, nofollow was enabled for all namespaces except the main namespace.
Here's the code that does it all: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/Linker.php?r...
If you look closer at the HTML for a page you'll see there are all different classes on the links, "extiw" for interwiki links, "external" for a link to an external page, "image" for links to images and so on. The short answer is that nofollow only applies to external links.