[WikiEN-l] Nofollow back on URL links on en.wikipedia.org articles for now

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com
Sat Jan 20 09:30:59 UTC 2007


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Having been requested by Jimmy to do so, and having seen a fun rumor of
a "search engine optimization world championship" contest targeting
WP[1], I've gone ahead and switched rel="nofollow" back onto URLs in
en.wikipedia.org's article namespace.

(Better heuristic and manual flagging tools for URLs would of course be
super; anyone interested in working on integrating such support into
MediaWiki should swing on by the tech channels and give a shout.)

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Globalwarming_awareness2007.2FSEO_world_championship_--_expect_a_spam_onslaught.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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