On Wednesday 19 January 2005 12:11, Brion Vibber wrote:
I've already added it; if for some reason we change our minds we can turn it off at any time.
Could you please turn it off in the non-Wikipedia MediaWiki distribution?
The rel attribute is standard, validating HTML4 & XHTML1.
That's true. However the values of the rel element are open to extensions, so maybe someone else already uses "nofollow" for another reason.
Note that as long search engines don't support this extension, it just uses extra bandwidth for no reason.