FYI...

John Resig has removed the rel="nofollow" attribute from the links.

How is that for fast service!

Thanks, John!!!


--Karl
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On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Karl Swedberg wrote:

I think this is a good idea, too.

The rel="nofollow" attribute is a default feature of MediaWiki to prevent spamming. See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features#rel. 3Dnofollow_link_attribute

What that article doesn't explain is how to turn off "nofollow." Also, would be good to know if this can be done on a per-page basis. Does anyone on this list have experience configuring MediaWiki and know how this could be accomplished?

--Karl


On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:56 AM, Sam Collett wrote:

On 30/01/07, Mathias Bank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everybody,

At the new plugin list (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins), all links are
marked as nofollow. That's of course to prevent spam. But I think,
that is no good idea for this page.

There are some reasons why the links should not be marked as nofollow:
* we want to have a complete list of all available plugins. We can
support this by not using "nofollow" because the plugin author will
have a good back link.
* The plugin page is visited a lot of times. There is no need to
mistrust the links. Most of them (I think even all of them) are proved
to be valid and to be helpful links.
* jQuery needs links to be pushed at search engines (the good PR has a
reason). In this way, jquery should link back to plugin developers,
who makes jquery what it is.

I think, "nofollow" is not a bad idea of search engines (but that's
not the subject). But surely, it has to be used sensible. It doesn't
make sense to use this attribute in a controlled environment like the
plugin list.

Mathias

A good idea, especially since the plugin authors normally link back to
the jQuery site.

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