On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 11/18/2013 09:46 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
I do think the implications of changing how nofollow is applied are very different on, say, Wikipedia than they would be on a small or even medium-sized wiki
As I said, at least for Google there should be no difference as it ignores rel=nofollow on MediaWiki-powered sites anyway. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52617.
Gabriel
Do we have any way of knowing that Yong-Gang Wang of Google is correct about this? I sent a message to this individualhttps://plus.google.com/105349418663822362024/about(hopefully it's the same guy) asking for more information. It seems like a pretty major departure from past Google policy/practice.