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

[gjzilla at gmail.com]

On 4/28/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 4/28/07, gjzilla at gmail.com <gjzilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. ~~~~
> >
> Hopefully someone will pick up on this and start spamming for Wikia websites.
>
> Anthony
>

[[WP:BEANS]]? *rolls eyes* Yeah. ~~~~