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

[Jeff Raymond]

David Gerard wrote:
>
> Presumably because they're very unlikely to be spam links that search
> engine spammers would insert to try to get Google rank.

Most links aren't.

> Personally I think it's in fact good to give Google rank to external
> links if doing so doesn't constitute an attractive nuisance to
> spammers. That links on Wikipedia are editor-selected is a reason the
> en:wp community objected to default nofollow when it was first added
> to Mediawiki. What we need is some way to make it less binary. That
> means coding. Which I can't do either. Pfeh!

Or, you know, stop pretending there's a crisis.  That could work, too.

Skeptical as always,

-Jeff