[WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

[David Gerard]

2009/6/24 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>:

> My understanding is that anything which goes to a URL - a "one-bracket
> link" - gets treated as an external link and is nofollowed, regardless
> of where it goes; anything created as a wikimarkup link, *including*
> interwiki links, is treated as internal and escapes.


This is correct.


> (This has caused much elaborate conspiracy theory in the past
> revolving around nofollow and "favoured" Wikia links, etc)


As is this.


- d.