On 18 November 2013 21:59, Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11/18/2013 12:27 PM, Risker wrote:
To be honest, I suspect if the Google fellow said anything like this, it was that they might ignore nofollow on Wikimedia wikis, but I'm pretty certain that he didn't say Mediawiki wikis.
I remember being surprised too that it applied to all MediaWiki installations rather than just Wikimedia sites. I have pinged him about it.
I run a small but public MW installation and I've seen others overrun by spam. I appreciate the noble intent in removing nofollow by default, but as one of those third-party users, I'd still rather it didn't change. If your intent is to change it on en:wp, that's a local config switch.
- d.