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

[Anthony]

On 1/22/07, The Cunctator <cunctator 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.
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> Does Jimmy have that authority? Should this have  gone through the board?
> Did it?

Where have you been for the last few years?  The board tends to stay
out of micromanaging Wikipedia.  Jimmy doesn't.

Anthony