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

[Matthew Brown]

On 1/20/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excuse me? Are you saying that when google uses wikipedia links to
> determine relevance in a search, it's detrimental to the neutrality of
> wikipedia? How exactly would that go?

In a sense, it is exactly that - because it increases the temptation
to add links to Wikipedia, regardless of real relevance to the reader.

That's still the case even if those links do not adjust search engine
results, of course.

-Matthew