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

[Nina Stratton]

On 1/20/07, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
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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.
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> (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.)
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Globalwarming_awareness2007.2FSEO_world_championship_--_expect_a_spam_onslaught
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Hi. What did you do? Pretend I'm, like, eight and/or stupid (because on this
I are pretty stoopid).


Nina
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