On 22/03/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 22/03/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm which still leaves open the question of why we are giving an external project an interwiki link.
Because lots of external projects have them and it's been common practice from before there was a wikipedia.com.
So why aren't they nofollowed? I mean, theoretically speaking, couldn't I simply make an interwiki link to my site that makes me a little dough on the side for the same result? If not, does that mean that certain sites get exempted?
No, they're determined by a list on meta which can only be edited by a meta admin:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map
Suggestions are made on the talk page.
Interwiki links are handy, sure, but what a way to get around the nofollows. I assume that *wasn't* by design?
One would hope the meta admins are on-the-ball enough to add only decent interwiki links :-)
- d.