https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52617

Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Priority|Low                         |Lowest

--- Comment #3 from Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> ---
Yesterday here at Wikimania Yong-Gang Wang of Google mentioned that their
general crawling pipeline has a rule that disregards rel="nofollow" on all
MediaWiki-powered sites. I would not be surprised if other engines had similar
rules.

This suggests that adding rel="nofollow" has become largely pointless in
MediaWiki. Blame all those high-quality external links that are hard to pass up
for search engines.

Lowering priority to 'lowest' to reflect this.

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