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

[The Cunctator]

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.


Does Jimmy have that authority? Should this have  gone through the board?
Did it?