[Foundation-l] Free advertising on Wikipedia

[Kelly Martin]

On 5/1/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't much like the idea of effectively punishing thousands of
> perfectly fine sites because of a few people who pee in the proverbial
> public pool.

How does turning on nofollow punish anyone?  Nobody is entitled to
free pagerank just because they've been listed on Wikipedia.

I see no good reason not to turn on nofollow for en.  I also note that
de has been nofollow for quite a while now.

Kelly