Re: wiki "abuse"

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2010/8/9 Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 2010/8/9 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> That would make certain pages not useful:
>> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitProjects
>
> That page is just as useful as or nofollow attribute. The only thing
> the nofollow attribute does is makes the pagerank not flow through. It
> doesn't make that page any less useful as a jump-board for humans.

Yes it does. Most people that are using that information are likely
*not* reading the wiki. They're looking at some search result for a
project whose pagerank is being partially boosted by the Git wiki.

If we turn on nofollow on the wiki we remove the wiki from the link
tree on the web, and turn it into a leaf node.

That's just not worth it, especially since it seems to do very little
to stop vandalism (which we're not even discussing here).

Wikipedia still gets a lot of linkspam after they turned on
rel=nofollow, but the web is poorer as a result since Wikipedia is now
one giant leaf node on the web.

We like trees too much around here to turn Git into a leaf.
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