[Foundation-l] Free advertising on Wikipedia

Mon May 1 14:36:53 UTC 2006

On Mon, May 1, 2006 15:11, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 5/1/06, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:
>> But isn't that a "they did it so I will" argument that we all rv over
>> the
>> whole of WP already? If we are serious about sorting some of our
>> problems
>> - and over-use of external links is but one of those - then we need to
>> start somewhere and put downa marker that we are dealing with the issue.
>> We ahve to start somewhere ...
>
> True. I remain unconvinced that indiscriminate use of the nofollow tag
> is the best way to do that, though. "If all you have in a hammer,
> everything looks like a nail." If all you have is a spam blacklist and
> a nofollow option .. I think Gregory's systematic queries point in the
> direction of the right solution. Perhaps a few new special pages could
> help us deal with external link issues more systematically. Hmm .. I
> think this is a job for Magnus or Rob! ;-)
>
> Erik
>