[Bug 32309] New: Add WMF domains to $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions

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             Bug #: 32309
           Summary: Add WMF domains to $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions
           Product: Wikimedia
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Unprioritized
         Component: Site requests
        AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
        ReportedBy: federicol...@tiscali.it
    Classification: Unclassified


I don't see any reason why "nofollow" should be added to links to our wikis,
it's against ourself.

Note: I think we can add wikimedia.org and include all subdomains; it's easier
than selecting and adding them manually and I don't think that spam to
wikitech, chapters wikis or whatever is a risk.

To expand (useless details follow if you're not convinced :-p): we should
ideally use interwiki links to link our wikis, and that's what we usually do,
but:
1) this isn't always possible, for instance Commons and Meta are multilingual
wikis and we often use {{fullurl}} to append a uselang= parameter to links,
typically in interproject templates (used on hundreds of thousands articles);
2) there's still no reason why, if a newbie doesn't know it, a standard link to
a Wikimedia project should have a nofollow.
Examples of 1):
* [[:mw:Help:Magic_words#URL_data]]: {{canonicalurl:Category:Top level}} → <a
rel="nofollow" class="external free"
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Top_level";>http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Top_level</a>
* [[:q:it:Cesare Beccaria]]: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cesare_Beccaria?uselang=it">Commons</a>
(added through [[:q:it:Template:Interprogetto]],
[[:q:it:Template:Interprogetto/CollegamentoUselang]])
* [[:w:fr:Modèle:Autres projets#Catégorie de Commons]]: <a rel="nofollow"
class="external text"
href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Plants?uselang=fr">«&#160;Autres
projets&#160;», sur <span>Wikimedia Commons</span></a>

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