On 4/29/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 29/04/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/29/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 29/04/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Not to mention that he hasn't read the links from this thread. http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=3133 It already has been coded.
Now you have to get it past Brion.
As I posted above, Brion already closed this as WONTFIX: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8753 ...thereby ruining my chance to call myself a MediaWiki developer :)
Well, yeah. Note the logic in the WONTFIX: if the sites aren't trusted not to be spam links, take them out of the interwiki map.
That would completely ruin a ton of links. The only sites which are "trusted not to be spam links" to any reasonable extent would be links to sister projects. Completely breaking all other interwiki links simply because you want them to be nofollowed is ludicrous.
Paying any attention to the complaints of SEOs and Googlemancers is approximately pointless. Perhaps we should ask them: "Please nofollow all your links to Wikipedia!" That would benefit the world by exploding their heads.
Paying any attention to the complaints of SEOs and Googlemancers is approximately pointless. Perhaps we should ask them: "Please nofollow all your links to Wikipedia!" That would benefit the world by exploding their heads.
So, when you answered {{sofixit}} before, what you meant was {{don't fix it, it's pointless}}?