On 5/15/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/14/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
- Google thinks we should enable it.
Do you have a link? That would be interesting...
I asked around on your behalf.
Here's a [new] post on the subject from Matt Cutts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts): http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/quick-comment-on-nofollow/ Quote: "For example, I've talked to a couple SEOs recently who said that they have a full-time person on their staff dedicated to scamming links from Wikipedia and wikis." Here's a recent thread on the foundation list regarding that subject: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/7047/focus=7079
Certainly, it's not wikipedia's responsibility to make the problem of web search easier. But part of the goal was also to let webmasters help remove the incentive for spamming. On random blogs, spam is mostly just annoying to the owner of the blog and its readers; on wikipedia, spam lowers the quality of the content.