On 5/1/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
Do we, essentially, want an invisible wall of separation between user-generated content and content from "trusted" sites? Or do we want a better solution? I don't like nofollow. It is a hack. It lacks imagination.
My personal opinion is that /currently/ I think nofollow has merit; I think we're extremely bad at handling linkspamming and website promotion in Wikipedia, and thus reducing the benefit might help.
However, if we became better at keeping track of what Wikipedia links to and getting rid of spam, I'd support turning nofollow off.
What would be useful steps to take to keep better track of these? Is there anything that can be done in software? Or procedure/process? External applications?
-Matt