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

[Andrew Gray]

On 20/01/07, 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.
>
> (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.)

Quick question (since I haven't seen it addressed below) - is this
temporary for the duration of the current optimisation contest, or
indefinite?

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk