On 11/17/2013 03:41 AM, Nathan Larson wrote: > Following the mediawiki-l > discussion<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2013-November/042038.html>about > $wgNoFollowLinks and various other discussions, in which some > discontent was expressed with the current two options of either applying or > not applying nofollow to all external links, I wanted to see what support > there might be for applying nofollow only to external links added in > revisions that are still unpatrolled (bug > 42599<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42599> > ).
Google and probably other search engines have a custom rule to ignore rel=nofollow in MediaWiki-powered wikis. It seems that our external links are too high quality to pass up. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52617. Gabriel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
