[Foundation-l] Free advertising on Wikipedia

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 5/1/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would be interested in your data, even if it is old, on what the the
> average lifetime of removed links is. That might be a good cutoff
> point for nofollow. I should also note that just because this is
> currently the case doesn't mean that it will have to stay that way.
> There's probably lots of ways to generate useful reports for editors
> from the externallinks table.

Okay.

Externallinks is nice but of somewhat limited usefulness...  It's
already been used to despam enwiki of spam that can be detected from
lots of duplicate links. We often use it to scan for SBLed stuff.. But
it hits its limits.

To find link removal times I have to scan all revisions. Weee!