https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41983

Nemo <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Attribution footer on       |Link to WikiTravel in the
                   |Wikivoyage needs to not be  |attribution footer on
                   |clickable link to rival     |Wikivoyage lacks nofollow;
                   |site                        |also make link not
                   |                            |clickable?

--- Comment #4 from Nemo <[email protected]> 2012-11-10 21:58:21 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> As far as I know, voy: is a valid interwiki to en.wikivoyage.org but
> wikivoyage: is not yet a valid prefix. 

I've done this now, although it will become live with a bit of delay depending
on deployment schedules.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interwiki_map&diff=4507874&oldid=4440403

> To change these links will require that
> a robot be unleashed on every wiki with a {{wikitravel}} or {{wikitravelpar}}
> template to stick a {{wikivoyage}} template in its place with the voy: prefix.
> That hits a few odd languages like Cebuano or Romanian, as well as most of the
> majors (except Spanish and Japanese, which killed off the template years ago 
> as
> IB spam)
> 
> There should be no links from anything WMF to a direct competitor's site;
> failing that, rel="nofollow" is a bare minimum. It will also be likely
> necessary at some point to start contacting owners of external (non-WMF,
> non-IB) sites who currently link to WT, politely explain the situation and ask
> they update these links.
> 
> Search engines tend to penalise duplicate content; to convince them that we 
> are
> the main site and IB is the fork, we need as many links as possible pointing 
> to
> wikivoyage.org and no links pointing to the old WT domain. Anything less 
> allows
> IB to fragment the project as readers are directed in error to the abandoned
> fork, where staff are systematically censoring all information that the 
> primary
> contributors have left for Wikivoyage.

All this doesn't belong to bugzilla, it should be discussed with the community.
Changed the summary to clarify what this bug is about.

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