On 4/10/06, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 4/10/06, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
Also, shouldn't we enable nofollow for talk pages? For example, if this discussion had been on a talk page, those example links above would now be indexed by search engines and thus help the spammers.
Nofollow per namespace would actually be really good. If we had per-namespace nofollow right now I'd enable it everywhere except the main namespace ... you can argue that the main ns links are reviewed and are of some quality, but that doesn't extend to anywhere else.
Ask and ye shall receive: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5523
The patch seems obviously correct. I've tested it here with $wgNoFollowNsExceptions = array(0); and it works just fine.
It would be great to see this make it into the main branch, it would remove some of the incentive for things like: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Timpani&diff=22299267&... (which wasn't found and removed for over a month)
From the angle of being a good netizen this would appear to be an
ideal comprimise.