On 29/04/07, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
EXHIBIT A. Brion and developers say if something is on Interwiki, it is trusted. Brion and Rob Church rejected the feature request of being able to customize follow/nofollow for Interwiki sites. Reason given: (from http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8753) EXHIBIT B. However, the meta page for Interwiki says nothing about sites being trusted. Only "useful": So there is the discrepancy. It would make sense to come to a common understanding of what role the Interwiki list should play, and align technology/software/developer decisions with it.
They are "trusted" not to be spam links. If they are "useful", it is quite unlikely they will be spam links. Not impossible (as I'm sure Geni is about to point out), but unlikely.
- d.