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

Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham at gmail.com
Wed May 2 21:34:35 UTC 2007


Most of the sites on the interwiki map should be wikis; however, there 
are present some useful prefixes that don't meet this criteria, and it 
would be a shame to remove them (google, cache, sourceforge, and 
possibly a few others). Beyond that, though, I think you're on the right 
track.

David Gerard wrote:
> "The InterWiki Map exists to allow a more efficient syntax for linking
> between wikis, and thus promote the cooperation and proliferation of
> wikis providing free information on the internet.  Sites considered
> for inclusion should probably (1) provide clear and relevant
> usefulness to the Wikimedia projects (2) be trusted not to facilitate
> spam links (3) be free content (under a Commons-acceptable license)
> (4) be a wiki (5) be reasonably developed."
>   



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