Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Matthews
Seth Finkelstein wrote: Andrew Gray (This has caused much elaborate conspiracy theory in the past revolving around nofollow and favoured Wikia links, etc) Well, in defense of critics, I think it's important to acknowledge that there are many aspects of the situation which

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

2009-06-26 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/26 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Fine. So assume good faith is not the de facto standard on the Internet.  Assume convoluted conspiracy is closer to being the de facto standard on some forums, to put it bluntly. The reason AGF is a good idea for WP is that we have

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

2009-06-24 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/6/24 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: I was trying to follow the nofollow discussion (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Current_use_on_Wikimedia_projects). I see it hinges on external links, and my question about it would be concerning when an interwiki link to a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

2009-06-24 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/24 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: My understanding is that anything which goes to a URL - a one-bracket link - gets treated as an external link and is nofollowed, regardless of where it goes; anything created as a wikimarkup link, *including* interwiki links, is treated as

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

2009-06-24 Thread wjhonson
, Jun 24, 2009 9:03 am Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects 2009/6/24 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: My understanding is that anything which goes to a URL - a one-bracket link - gets treated as an external link and is nofollowed, regardless of where it goes

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Wagner
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 14:59, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Are links created by templates nofollowed or followed? That is, someone creates a template like {{Brittanica|Edward VI}} or whatever. What's the follow treatment ? The same as anything else: if the template creates a one-bracket link, it

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

2009-06-24 Thread Luna
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Mark Wagner carni...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 14:59, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Are links created by templates nofollowed or followed? That is, someone creates a template like {{Brittanica|Edward VI}} or whatever. What's the follow treatment