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

[William Pietri]

Joe Szilagyi 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 question interesting enough for it to get covered on [[TechCrunch]], 
one of the most-read Silicon Valley sites:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/28/wikipedia-special-treatment-for-wikia-and-other-wikis/

(Or http://tinyurl.com/28jrnt if the link gets mangled.)


William