https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42594
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Bug #: 42594
Summary: Change $wgNoFollowLinks to default to false
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.21-git
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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$wgNoFollowLinks currently defaults to true as an anti-spam measure. This works
against the goal of many wikis in adding legitimate external links, viz. to
promote and draw attention to those linked-to sites. The wikis that are overrun
by spam generally won't have many incoming links because people prefer to link
to useful content, so their influence on pagerank won't be all that great. On
the other hand, wikis that lack an effective CAPTCHA will be spammed regardless
of nofollow because the cost of spamming them is so low and there is the
potential to get at least some pagerank boost by means of the sites that mirror
the wiki and don't use nofollow.
In short, setting $wgNoFollowLinks to true probably does more harm than good to
most wikis' missions. Some system administrators probably don't think to change
it, since it doesn't show up in LocalSettings.php. In most cases, we'd be doing
them a favor by having it default to false.
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