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

Anthony wikilegal at inbox.org
Sat Jan 20 22:06:04 UTC 2007


On 1/20/07, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
What about links to sister projects, like Wikinews?  It seems some of
those projects could benefit greatly from the links not being
nofollowed.

Anthony



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