On 7/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, feckin' yay.
http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/2007/07/12/yes-virginia-there-are-followed-…
Someone want to start contacting the mirrors about this and strongly
suggesting nofollow? Particularly
answers.com!
is indeed of particular concern, since they use a live feed it
would increase the likelyhood of a spam attack. On the other
answers.comdoes not have as high a pagerank as Wikipedia so spammer
wouldn't exert so
much resources on targetting it or finding out that they can target it.
Do many of the mirrors use the HTML dumper in MediaWiki? Does this
dumper nofollow the links?
This is unlikely as it is difficult to keep up to date (every time a new
database dump is released you would have to re-run the HTML dumper rather
than just importing it and forgetting about it) and consumes far more disk
space. From what I can establish by having a quick look at [1] the HTML
dumper does add rel="nofollow" (I think it just uses the standard skin
templates which rel="nofollow" is already added to).
- d.
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[1]
http://static.wikipedia.org/wikipedia/en/index.html