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Andrew Gray wrote:
On 20/01/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
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.)
Quick question (since I haven't seen it addressed below) - is this
temporary for the duration of the current optimisation contest, or
indefinite?
Indefinite. I'd prefer to see actual improvements (whitelisting, fading,
flagging and approval system, etc) rather than just turn it off one day,
though.
- -- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com / brion @
wikimedia.org)
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