On 1/20/07, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
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Having been requested by Jimmy to do so, and having seen a fun rumor of a "search engine optimization world championship" contest targeting WP[1], I've gone ahead and switched rel="nofollow" back onto URLs in en.wikipedia.org's article namespace.
(Better heuristic and manual flagging tools for URLs would of course be super; anyone interested in working on integrating such support into MediaWiki should swing on by the tech channels and give a shout.)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Globalw....
and the reviews start to come in:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=224044&highlight=wikiped...