Wikipedia adopts nofollow tags...
 

Apparantly because of all the time spent stopping link spammers, Wikipedia is using nofollow tags across the whole site...

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/10642

Interesting quote:

What happens as a consequence, in my opinion, is that Wikipedia gets valuable backlinks from all over the web, in huge quantity, and of huge importance ? normal links, not "nofollow" links; this is what makes Wikipedia rank so well ? but as of now, they're not giving any of this back.

All the mainstream sites that made relevant links with them now get hosed. nice.

I can undertsand, everyone and their dogs want links FROM wikipedia because of their PR....

but on the other hand, that's just not fair.

I'm sure they had their hands full with link spammers. This was probably the only way they could continue without anything drastic. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out for them. Will people stop linking to Wikipedia now?

thats sucks, they just killed alot of legit people

*shrug* so pull your links TO the Wikipedia. Fair is fair.

In one simple word, yes. I just removed most of the ones I've had up for years with some mainstream sites I run after I found out about this last night. :2 cents:

But the traffic will still be there. ;)

Come on guys, think about this.

Try to put yourself in their shoes and imagine the enormity of their spam problem.

Just do the same... when you link to wikipedia, make them nofollow as well.

No follow won't really matter much unless they get the word out. Most spammers will just keep going without even realizing it's doing nothing for them. So not sure how it's really going to help them stem it.

Wiki does send an enormous amount of traffic too which thankfully won't be effected.

wow that really sucks :\

Big changes in SE traffic flow are coming...

What a great business model they have:

1. Get dumbass sheeple users to write content
2. Beg like a bitch for "funds" to continue running the site
3. Fuck all the writers and webmasters who added value content by nofollow'ing the links


Fucking brilliant.

So, don't link back to them, simple ...

Gotta agree there.

They went from being a pretty useful idea to whoring for traffic and having an "article" (read: page title with no content) for every possible search term. Now the site is worth millions and you can be sure the donors (read: saps) who gave cash won't see a penny back ... oh, and you're backlink is useless too.

Wiki's Credibility: zero

What do you expect from a guy who got his start as a porn webmaster :pimp

I can totally understand... This is a non profit org... They don't have enough money to monitor all this shit.

i like all these "one day that's happens" changes

Don't forget their planned for-profit search engine that's going live this year.

:2 cents:

They are biting the hands that feed them.
Pretty fucked up. Lots of relevent links on wiki.