On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
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
individual<https://plus.google.com/105349418663822362024/about>(hopef…
it's the same guy) asking for more information. It seems like a
pretty major departure from past Google policy/practice.