From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com

Robin Shannon wrote:

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But it also means that wikipedia itself probably should turn the feature off.

(This is not a decree or anything, just one voice in the discussion.)

maybe in the 5 or so really big wikipedias, but i know for example that en.wikibooks has a problem with one particular chinese wikispammer, who doesnt get reverted for at least a couple of hours, if not half a day sometimes. I presume there is probably similar probs with some of the other smaller projects.

I think that's probably right.

It's about weighing the value of giving search engines good clues about pages that don't suck versus the value of discouraging wikispam when it is a problem.

--Jimbo

I agree. I ineptly started a page at [[m:nofollow]], for discussion off this list.

Ben