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

[Anthony]

On 1/24/07, · Firefoxman <enwpmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Google doesnt make any manual changes to their engine, or so they say. If
> you are linked to by people w/ high pagerank, your rank goes up. No matter
> what.
>
Surely you're oversimplifying, because such a simple system would
just...suck.  Some sites have good content, but link to bad content.
It doesn't take a genius to realize that, and it doesn't require any
manual tweaks to recognize those sites and ignore links from them
automatically.

> On 1/24/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would personally be very surprised if being linked to by Wikipedia
> > adds much value to a site in the first place - I'm sure Google
> > long-ago worked out that spammers spam Wikipedia with links.
> > Wikipedia itself is high-ranked, but I doubt much magic gets passed
> > on.
> >
Now that nofollow is turned on this might very well change, though.
Nofollow only makes sense if you apply it to *some* links and not to
others, which is exactly what Wikipedia is now doing (sister sites
aren't nofollowed, for instance).

Anthony