On 2/25/08, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
I still say that the wikipedia needs a mechanism to turn off nofollow on selected links; for example links added by, or marked out by high edit count users. There needs to be a bot or something that whitelists links.
Why even bother? I mean yes, there are a handful of sites which we consider useful and reliable enough to link to them in a very high volume, so high that removing "nofollow" would create a conspicuous spike in the job queue, so high that we've created templates to make them easier to link to. IMDB comes to mind, but somehow I doubt they would be bothered enough to care whether links from Wikipedia affect IMDB's page-rank or whether this would help IMDB pass "Photobucket" in the top 20. But whether they care or not, why should we?
—C.W.