On 4/30/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Your first line appears to be part of the myth that this is the cult of Jimbo and all are under his control. Brion wanted nofollow on all wikis and only left it off en:wp with much grumbling.
He claims that he turned it on en:wp by the request of Jimbo ("Having been requested by Jimmy to do so").
Did you actually read the reasons for rejecting the patch? Interwiki links are unlikely to be spam.
All links are unlikely to be spam.
If your mission is to get nofollow on all links to Wikia sites, I suggest you come up with a reason it's for the good of the first party (Wikipedia/Wikimedia) or the second party (the readers).
I think the best argument for this is that enforcing a double-standard which benefits the for-profit business of the founder of Wikimedia and a board member *looks bad*.
Anthony