In principle nofollow should be a decision for each wikimedia
implementation whereas the interwiki list is managed on meta. There are
plenty of interwiki sites which are at best dubious for links. The only
way I can see to manage something more fine-grained is via some sort of
"greenlist" on each implementation i.e. a sysop-only-edited list of
domains for clean links, managed a bit like the current whitelist (which
bypasses the meta blacklist). I put a short greenlist here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BozMo/greenlist which
covers about 300,000 legit (IMHO) links out of the 8 m or whatever on
en. There was a discussion to do a patch for this on this list in Jan
but both progress on the greenlist and offers to do the patch are a bit
quiet.
Stephen Bain wrote:
On 3/23/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
There's some discussion on wikien-l at
present about nofollow on
external links, and how that doesn't apply to interwiki links.
1. I understand when the nofollow was switched on for all external
links, Brion suggested people code something finer-grained if they
didn't like the all-or-nothing nature of denying pagerank to good
external links. Has anyone been working on this?
It seems that unless there's something more fine-grained, there won't
be an option for nofollow on interwiki links:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8753