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

[Steve Summit]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> 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.

Right.  But some of the sites we link to are good sites, and
do deserve our "vote" in terms of increasing their pagerank.
(But the problem, of course, is that there's no way to
differentiate those external links of ours that have this
quality, versus those that are as-yet-undetected linkspam.)