On 11/17/2013 03:41 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
Following the mediawiki-l
discussion<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2013-Novembeā¦
$wgNoFollowLinks and various other discussions, in which some
discontent was expressed with the current two options of either applying or
not applying nofollow to all external links, I wanted to see what support
there might be for applying nofollow only to external links added in
revisions that are still unpatrolled (bug
42599<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42599>
).
Google and probably other search engines have a custom rule to ignore
rel=nofollow in MediaWiki-powered wikis. It seems that our external
links are too high quality to pass up. See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52617.
Gabriel