[WikiEN-l] Just what *is* Jimbo's role anyway? - "nofollow" decision

[David Gerard]

On 22/03/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:

> 1) Wikia links, last check, still don't have nofollow attached.  This
> means that the only links the Foundation allows to be noticed are ones
> that are linked to the Foundation in a personell sense.  How convinenent.


Are those as normal hyperlinks (which should have a nofollow on) or as
interwiki links? The latter may well not. Because spammers are very
unlikely to be spamming for sites in the interwiki site list.


> I mean, it comes across as horribly underhanded, especially since the
> community wasn't even approached about it.


It did its job of dealing with an immediate spammer problem, which is
why Brion was so keen to switch it on.

He like anyone has acknowledged that the present situation is far from
ideal, but has suggested what coding people need to do to make it a
bit finer-grained. So the answer is ... get coding.


- d.