On 4/28/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/27/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/27/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Except the link isn't that bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LeechFTP&diff=119465233&ol...
-- geni
You know, while I despise spammers as much as the next person, it's worth remembering that the "power of Wikipedia links" can be used for good, as well. For instance, there was recently a project by librarians at the [[University of Washington]] libraries to add relevant links to their online special collections -- like collections of WWII photographs -- to the appropriate Wikipedia articles. Surprise, surprise, their traffic skyrocketed -- always a good thing for libraries looking for funding, and a bonus for us as we get good, curated, non-profit links to collections people might not find otherwise. Of course *we* know this but people at institutions might not; libraries and museums and the like should always be encouraged to add relevant links to their collections if they can.
Yup. I don't see how this is more than tangentially related to the issue of nofollow, however; we don't discourage people from adding valuable links to their sites. We just don't want to encourage people adding links because they want the pagerank of their pages to increase.
Johnleemk