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Bug 21746 - Mark internal hyperlinks with rel="nofollow"
Mark internal hyperlinks with rel="nofollow"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-12-03 01:38 UTC by Kevin Brown
Modified: 2012-07-31 23:49 UTC (History)
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Description Kevin Brown 2009-12-03 01:38:04 UTC 
In the past external hyperlinks were marked with the rel="nofollow" parameter, however I have read that blackhat and other hackers are also using internal links to their advantage to boost the search engine views of Wikipedia pages that have references to their books, products, companies.  I request that rel="nofollow" be added to internal hyperlinks as well to prevent these tactics.
Comment 1 MZMcBride 2011-03-26 20:14:39 UTC 
This is somewhat related to bug 8410.
Comment 2 Tim Starling 2012-07-31 23:49:10 UTC 
We can't add rel=nofollow to internal links because crawlers need to be able to follow those links in order to index the site in a useful way. I don't really see a problem with internal links being used to promote internal pages, that's what internal links are for.
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