https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66289
Bug ID: 66289
Summary: Flow: external links should have rel="nofollow"
property
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Flow
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Split from bug 56756
External links in Parser output have <a rel="nofollow" class="external";
external links in Parsoid output have <a title="" rel="mw:ExtLink"
Outputting rel="nofollow" tells search engines not to follow the link (more a
suggestion to Google) and is an indicator to decrease search engine rank. So
adding this to Flow's HTML output from Parsoid might reduce spammers'
incentive.
There's logic in Parser::getExternalLinkRel to decide whether to output
nofollow, I think Flow can just call that public function in code similar to
includes/Parsoid/Redlinker.php.
From IRC:
<gwicke> do you remember what the use case for the exceptions was?
$wgNoFollowNsExceptions and $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions
<hoo> First one: No idea... probably someone thought someone else could use
that sometime.
Second one: To white list own domains
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