[WikiEN-l] Why aren't *all* wikia.com links restricted under nofollow?

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On 4/27/07, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unless I'm mistaken--correct me, if so... Wikia.com is a privately held
> company seperate from the WMF.
>
> Why aren't links to all *.Wikia.com links covered by nofollow? A quick
> glance at the HTML source for example on the Wikia article on
> en.wikipedia.org shows that transcluded links to the privately owned Wikia
> pages are not covered.
>
> Why does Wikia get the benefit of the SEO from Wikipedia? If there was an
> arrangement granted by the WMF for this, was it documented publicly? If so,
> where? Thanks!
> --

Also, the theory would be that people are less likely to spam for
Wikia websites. ~~~~