On 8/19/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/19/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
Remember, Google's job is not to be fair or
to reduce work for
Wikipedia admins. If a ranking strategy on average gives better
results, it doesn't matter if there are a few cases where it fails.
If people start abusing this, Wikipedia can always turn on nofollow
for internal links.
I don't think free SEO is a problem per se.
No, not per se, but if people start adding inappropriate links and/or
inappropriate articles (more than before), that would be the problem.
Might be a big problem, might be a little one. I have no idea.
Right.
It's a problem in another way: It degrades AGF. It's harder to assume
good faith when there are so many effective ways to abuse the site for
personal profit. Did someone add that link because they are being
paid to promote it, or because it's actually useful?
We can never shut down all the ways Wikipedia can be abused. But when
there are holes we can easily close we should do so, if for no other
reason than to improve trust in our community.