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

[geni]

On 1/20/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > (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.)
> >
> > [1]
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Globalwarming_awareness2007.2FSEO_world_championship_--_expect_a_spam_onslaught.
> >
>
>
> and the reviews start to come in:
>
> http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=224044&highlight=wikipedia


Hmm an I evil for enjoying this:

http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4655
http://www.wickedfire.com/industry-news/7373-wikipedia-external-links-now-nofollow.html

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geni