I was trying to follow the nofollow discussion (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Current_use_on_Wikimedia_projects). I see it hinges on "external links", and my question about it would be concerning when an interwiki link to a sister project is deemed "external". For context, I use many links to Wikisource pages I have created as references, and was wondering whether the [[:s: ***]] construction is read as an "external" link.
Charles
2009/6/24 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
I was trying to follow the nofollow discussion (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Current_use_on_Wikimedia_projects). I see it hinges on "external links", and my question about it would be concerning when an interwiki link to a sister project is deemed "external". For context, I use many links to Wikisource pages I have created as references, and was wondering whether the [[:s: ***]] construction is read as an "external" link.
My understanding is that anything which goes to a URL - a "one-bracket link" - gets treated as an external link and is nofollowed, regardless of where it goes; anything created as a wikimarkup link, *including* interwiki links, is treated as internal and escapes.
(This has caused much elaborate conspiracy theory in the past revolving around nofollow and "favoured" Wikia links, etc)
2009/6/24 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
My understanding is that anything which goes to a URL - a "one-bracket link" - gets treated as an external link and is nofollowed, regardless of where it goes; anything created as a wikimarkup link, *including* interwiki links, is treated as internal and escapes.
This is correct.
(This has caused much elaborate conspiracy theory in the past revolving around nofollow and "favoured" Wikia links, etc)
As is this.
- d.
Are links created by templates nofollowed or followed? That is, someone creates a template like {{Brittanica|Edward VI}} or whatever. What's the follow treatment ?
Will
-----Original Message----- From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 9:03 am Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects
2009/6/24 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
My understanding is that anything which goes to a URL - a "one-bracket link" - gets treated as an external link and is nofollowed, regardless of where it goes; anything created as a wikimarkup link, *including* interwiki links, is treated as internal and escapes.
This is correct.
(This has caused much elaborate conspiracy theory in the past revolving around nofollow and "favoured" Wikia links, etc)
As is this.
- d.
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 14:59, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
Are links created by templates nofollowed or followed? That is, someone creates a template like {{Brittanica|Edward VI}} or whatever. What's the follow treatment ?
The same as anything else: if the template creates a one-bracket link, it gets "nofollow"; if it creates a two-bracket link, it doesn't.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 14:59, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
Are links created by templates nofollowed or followed? That is, someone creates a template like {{Brittanica|Edward VI}} or whatever. What's the follow treatment ?
The same as anything else: if the template creates a one-bracket link, it gets "nofollow"; if it creates a two-bracket link, it doesn't.
Yep. When trying to wrap my head around some of the more obscure template formatting issues, I've often found it helps to remember that, come parsing time, all templates are simply expanded into plain old wikitext on the page to be displayed.
-Luna