To discourage link-spamming, one way could be: <br><br>- Have a notion of stable revisions, either marked by hand, or in the future I hope via a collaboration of hand marking and trust (algorithmic marking). <br><br>- Sell to search engines a stable revision feed.&nbsp; I believe that search engines would much rather index stable revisions of articles, and they would be willing to pay for it, giving the visibility of the Wikipedia as a search target.
<br><br>The advantages of this scheme are: <br><br>- Link spamming becomes useless<br>- We raise money<br>- We can continue to present visitors the latest version whenever we feel this is appropriate for the Wikipedia evolution, without regards to spammer behavior. 
<br><br>Luca<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is a circular argument, though :-) , as the current last
<br>edit/default view policy is what makes things such as link-spamming<br>effective. <br></blockquote></div>