[Foundation-l] Free advertising on Wikipedia

[Matt Brown]

On 5/1/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Because there are ~2,800,000 external links from the main namespace
> alone on enwiki (there is now a patch to mediawiki to set nofollow per
> namespace, I think no matter what we should nofollow outside the main
> ns), I see automated scanning as the only reasonable step right now to
> improve our link quality.
>
> So I'm working on it..

Excellent news!  I'd hoped you were doing something like this.

And yes, I see no reason to not set nofollow in all namespaces except
the article one.

-Matt