On Jan 19, 2005, at 2:25 AM, NSK wrote:
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 12:11, Brion Vibber
wrote:
I've already added it; if for some reason we
change our minds we can
turn it off at any time.
Could you please turn it off in the non-Wikipedia MediaWiki
distribution?
Having it on by default is a significant factor to its having the
desired effect (wide distribution of potential spam targets which will
produce no gain for the spammer if attacked).
You may of course turn it off on your own wikis (as you may configure
or recode them in any way). Unless we decide not to support the
campaign, the option will ship on by default.
The rel
attribute is standard, validating HTML4 & XHTML1.
That's true. However the values of the rel element are open to
extensions, so
maybe someone else already uses "nofollow" for another reason.
If they have, there's little _we_ can do about it, as we are not a
search engine. Talk to the fine folks at Google, MSN, and Yahoo.
Note that as long search engines don't support
this extension, it just
uses
extra bandwidth for no reason.
Google started the thing, and MSN and Yahoo's search teams have
announced they will support it. Whether the other players will hop on
the bandwagon remains to be seen (the campaign is young).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)