[WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

[wjhonson at aol.com]

Are links created by templates nofollowed or followed?
That is, someone creates a template like {{Brittanica|Edward VI}}
or whatever.
What's the follow treatment ?

Will



-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 9:03 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects










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.

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