> […] why the <ref> tag parameter follow= is not turned off in wiki sites that 
> are not wikisource?

As the Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Germany is currently working
on the Cite extension, I had a look to find an answer to your
question.

The follow="…" feature was introduced in 2010[1] as part of the Cite
extension, the extension responsible for the <ref> and <references>
tags. The feature was never designed to be turned on or off per wiki,
and can't be turned off.

In case a wiki does not want to use it, and make sure it isn't used, I
suggest to either use an "insource" search[2] on a regular basis, or
possibly talk to the users running the Check Wikipedia project[3] to
add a scan for the follow="…" parameter to their list.

Best
Thiemo

[1] 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rECITb5883ddc36f8ee270f555ad73ac5fa00cf1bcbc9
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Insource
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia

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