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- eean, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27So interwiki links don't have the nofollow thing.
Slow news day? - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18The free service I don't pay for is doing something I don't like. Call the Waaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmbulaaaaaaaaaaance.
- Boghiu, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16I think TC does a very good job even without the digg traffic. Cut the free comments.
- LonesomeFighter, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13its the weekend. lots of people rest and therefore not much happens.
- Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Rather, they add the rel=nofollow to any external links. The Interwiki links don't have rel=nofollow. This means that anything listed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map and defined with a special syntax will not have rel=nofollow.
This also means Wikipedia links to Uncyclopedia don't have rel=nofollow, either. Hypocrisy! - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Eh. The no follow links was to prevent people from using Wiki to get better page ranks on Google for whatever Spam product they are attempting to sell. The sole purpose of no follows is to prevent spamming on Wikipedia.
Considering other Wikia sites aren't spammers, it would be safe to say this is a moot point.
Besides, people who need page rank from Wikipedia to drive traffic most likely didn't have a site worth visiting. - bcat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Buried as inaccurate. The article is extremely biased, to the point of being useless. nofollow is a tool to deter spam, nothing more. Of course it isn't needed for the few Wikis lucky enough to be on WP's interwiki map.
- localzuk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Wow people get upset over the strangest of minor things. Being a contributor to Wikipedia, I think this is its main problem actually. A lot of people blow the smallest thing way out of proportion and then people spend days arguing over it. And I'm not just pointing the finger at other people, as I have done it myself.
Maybe we all need to grow up and learn to work together before projects like WP will work smoothly and without all the stupid arguing. - Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@TiCL
I wouldn't call it a "hypocrisy". It's just that links to Wikia have the rel="nofollow" attribute removed; big deal.
External links to Wikia still have the attribute. - Rekzai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3*spams my link on wikipedia*
- etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The premise of Wikipedia is that they want all the content on their site rather than be linked to from their site. In other words, you either make them the expert source by contributing your data, or step away. While there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, they have to realize that there will be a lot of "more relevant" information available elsewhere - and if the owner of that information doesn't want to give it up, but it's valid nonetheless, Wiki should link to it... and the owner should be rewarded for that link.
- BrainInAJar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6The only people complaining are the SEO scumbags that want to use the wiki to drive up their pagerank...
***** SEO. Those ***** should get real jobs & stop trying to ruin google - kenb215, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wouldn't say few Wikis. There are 357 Wikis listed on the Interwiki map.
- ReyBrujo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone can request creating an entry in the interwiki map. Even YouTube had one, but we got it removed. Why they aren't tagged? Not sure, they should. But of course, you get more hits in your blog posts when you accuse.
- fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It's a little hypocritical for techcrunch to mention wikipedia favouring themselves ... lots of tc posts have disclaimers that the author owns shares in/sleeps with/whatever the website being reviewed.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2About time....
- Tenareth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@vertinox - Exactly, it avoids attracting spammers because they won't get insta-pagerank. It's better for the Internet as a whole.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Google started with "Do no evil".
But to be you have to be little or sometime a lot more evil.
Be to much of nice guys and you will make history like IBM.
Successful Business needs evil ruthless criticism and competition. - checksumz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1AFAIK wiki still gives PR juice to source links, they only add rel=nofollow to links in the link section.
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Yea because geek donations should bring in all the money they need to run their site for long periods of time.... NOT
Big ***** Deal. No digg. - mrspankeh, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2http://www.aftervote.com is essentially already doing what wikia aims to do 'someday'
- Beaver6813, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2Aren't you just a box full of laughs.
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1Sign me up to digg. I don't mind making some cash. :)
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