--- Andrew Cates andrew@catesfamily.org.uk wrote:

So does anyone know why the Wikimedia Foundation site has "nofollow" on its external links too?

I know on en we have given up trying to claim our content is reliable but given http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki is approved log in only, you would have thought we might be bold and hope the quality was good enough?

BozMo

I think the reason for adding the "nofollow" attribute to external links was more to discourage and reduce the effects of link spamming, than to address any percieved reliability problems (the Web as a whole can hardly be called a reliable source).

That argument still doesn't apply to wikimediafoundation.org, of course. I assume the developers just changed the configuration of all Wikimedia wikis.

-Gurch