[WikiEN-l] Nofollow back on URL links on en.wikipedia.org articles for now

Wed Jan 24 15:58:32 UTC 2007

geni wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Sage Ross <sage.ross at yale.edu> wrote:
>> I like this one:
>> http://www.smomashup.com/how-wikipedia-killed-the-internets/2007/01/23/
>>
>> The complaint is that, once the (barely notable) entry on [[Social
>> Media Optimization]] stops giving PageRank value to the blog-post
>> origin of the term, then the Wikipedia article will surpass the blog
>> entry as the first Google result for "social media optimization".
>> Breaks my heart.
>>
> 
> It's not quite that simple. It is true that our actions are likely to
> be mildly dissruptive on the wider net but even our more power mad
> admins generaly don't think we should be policeing the web.
> 
> We are not a links directory which is one of the problems with various
> ideas to selectively turn off no follow. If we do that we are basicaly
> admiting we are a links directory and we would gain very little for
> doing so.
> 

Indeed, the argument "Wikipedia is not a web/links directory" has always
been followed up with "...that's what DMOZ is for". Logically, we should
check what they do, and do the exact opposite of it... :)

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