On 3/22/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/03/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
Okay, that makes some sense. Now, why the hell aren't they nofollowed along with everything else?
Presumably because they're very unlikely to be spam links that search engine spammers would insert to try to get Google rank.
(And now let's see if search engine spammers start looking for ways to abuse that ...)
trivial it doesn't nofollow links to del.icio.us. Spammers have been abuseing that for some time:
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=del.icio.us+seo&btnG...
Google Groups probaly have simular issues
Personally I think it's in fact good to give Google rank to external links if doing so doesn't constitute an attractive nuisance to spammers. That links on Wikipedia are editor-selected is a reason the en:wp community objected to default nofollow when it was first added to Mediawiki. What we need is some way to make it less binary. That means coding. Which I can't do either. Pfeh!
Wikipedia is not DOMZ. I don't think we should be in the game of helping google and other search engins decide what counts as a good link. By all means make sure they pic up links to other wikimedia projects but I see little value is messing around with methods to rate other types of links.