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

[Tim Starling]

Joe Szilagyi wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Blu Aardvark <jeffrey.latham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Blu, which patch...?  The developers rejected Bainer's proposed patch:
> 
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8753

That was before this discussion, before Anthere gave her opinion on the
matter. And it was only two developers, neither of whom appear to have
defended their decision since their initial one-line response. It's not
the end of the road.

-- Tim Starling