On 22/03/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
Okay, that makes some sense. Now, why the hell aren't they nofollowed along with everything else?
Presumably because they're very unlikely to be spam links that search engine spammers would insert to try to get Google rank.
(And now let's see if search engine spammers start looking for ways to abuse that ...)
Personally I think it's in fact good to give Google rank to external links if doing so doesn't constitute an attractive nuisance to spammers. That links on Wikipedia are editor-selected is a reason the en:wp community objected to default nofollow when it was first added to Mediawiki. What we need is some way to make it less binary. That means coding. Which I can't do either. Pfeh!
- d.