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

[Ken Arromdee]

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Michael Snow wrote:
> > By allowing even a single
> > non-Wikimedia Foundation site to reap any sort of financial benefit, a
> > possible conflict of interest now exists.
> 
> Wow, that's a breathtakingly broad thesis. Apparently the Wikimedia 
> Foundation has an ethical obligation to actively prevent remote 
> downstream commercial activity, because it could be a conflict of 
> interest for us if completely independent outside parties somehow benefit.

The ethical obligation happens because Wikia being "completely independent"
is just a legal technicality, and doesn't mean there's no conflict of
interest.