On 01/05/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
If you're henceforth going to put something into place for the express purpose of using the power of nofollow, I'd suggest a determination on the basis of whether the interwiki site is free content. (See WMF objectives.)
Is it a stated objective (link, please) to promote external websites or corporations materially or incidentally? I'm curious for a clarification of what you are saying. Thanks!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
"The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge."
This would most definitely be "encouraging the growth, development and distribution" of free content.
When I get press calls with the latest "let's you and him fight" news about Citizendium, I point out that encouraging free content sites in general is actually good for us in every way. It validates the model and it validates free content.
If Google juice from Wikipedia is as all-fired superpowered as linkspammers claim, it would be negligent of us not to use this force for good.
(That, by the way, would mean distinguishing which Wikia sites get nofollow, e.g. most are GFDL, but Uncyclopedia is CC by-nc-sa, so wouldn't get a boost.)
- d.