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

[Thomas Dalton]

> Hang on, what do you think the downside of the nofollow tag is? All
> this change does is make Google not use the fact that we link to a
> site as evidence that it's a good site.

Are they also used to calculate relevance - if our article links to
lots of good pages about the search terms, will our article appear
higher up in the search results? I have no idea how the Google search
algorithm works, but that's how I interpreted Oskar's email.