On 1/24/07, Andrew Cates andrew@catesfamily.org.uk wrote:
Therefore, could I put in a request for a "greenlist" feature to allow sysop approved links to be generated without rel="nofollow"?
There are well over 8 million external links in enwiki alone, including well over a half million distinct domains via HTTP.
A greenlist is not a remotely sane solution because of this...
Sane solutions are, however, possible.
I would suggest that any proposed feature interact with whatever version flagging system we end up implementing. I don't believe that will likely be sufficient since the the proposal most likely to be implemented just provides us with a not-vandalized flag... which doesn't do much to indicate that any member of the editing community has actually reviewed the link (and pure time limits are even worse in that regard). Just keep in mind that anything proposed must scale, and it must be robust against editing (special text that only admins can insert is not robust against editing... for example, a non admin couldn't revert page blanking on a page that had special text links).