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

[Brion Vibber]

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Jeff Raymond wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> 
>> Indefinite. I'd prefer to see actual improvements (whitelisting, fading,
>> flagging and approval system, etc) rather than just turn it off one day,
>> though.
> 
> Why aren't we treating nofollow like the spam blacklist?

To be useful it needs to function on a whitelist approach, and the
further details of whitelisting (explicit, implicit, exceptions,
approvals, flagging, moderation, visibility, logging) have yet to be
worked out.

If you intend to actually work on this issue, please step up in the tech
channels.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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