On 11/17/2013 03:41 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
Following the mediawiki-l discussionhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2013-November/042038.htmlabout $wgNoFollowLinks and various other discussions, in which some discontent was expressed with the current two options of either applying or not applying nofollow to all external links, I wanted to see what support there might be for applying nofollow only to external links added in revisions that are still unpatrolled (bug 42599https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42599 ).
Google and probably other search engines have a custom rule to ignore rel=nofollow in MediaWiki-powered wikis. It seems that our external links are too high quality to pass up. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52617.
Gabriel