[WikiEN-l] Why aren't *all* wikia.com links restricted under nofollow?

[Blu Aardvark]

John Lee wrote:
> Having said that, I still don't understand why the MediaWiki patch was
> rejected. Why is it not sensible to allow MediaWiki installations to
> nofollow interwiki links? It's a feature someone out there might conceivably
> want.
>   

It's conceivable, but probably fairly unlikely. Interwiki links, by 
their nature, are incredibly unlikely to be spam (although there are a 
lot of prefixes in the default table that are, in my opinion, utter 
crap). Still, the patch is available if a user is genuinely concerned 
about it.