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Bug 42029 - Links from wikivoyage.org to wikivoyage-old.org (any subdomain) need rel="nofollow"
Links from wikivoyage.org to wikivoyage-old.org (any subdomain) need rel="nof...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 41184
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Reported: 2012-11-11 22:48 UTC by Carl Austin Bennett
Modified: 2013-03-31 21:06 UTC (History)
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Description Carl Austin Bennett 2012-11-11 22:48:11 UTC 
The [[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]] on the various Wikivoyage sites has a link "View this page on the old site" which appears to be inserted server-side in some non-standard manner. As search engines need to index "wikivoyage.org" (and not an archive, fork or mirror such as wikivoyage-old or wikitravel) any outbound links from Wikivoyage to old copies of the same data on other sites need rel="nofollow". Omitting this can incur some problematic duplicate content penalties from search engines, as they have no way to know that wikivoyage-old is *not* the main site.
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2012-11-11 22:53:24 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 41983 ***
Comment 2 Carl Austin Bennett 2012-11-11 23:00:34 UTC 
Not an exact duplicate as bug 41983 mentions only links to WT, not the "View this page on the old site" link to WV-old. They're related issues, but not identical.
Comment 3 Alex Monk 2012-11-11 23:41:05 UTC 
Wikitext external links in pages get rel="nofollow" already.

The 'View this page on the old site' link is inserted by JS here: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js (At least, on enwikivoyage. Other languages are probably doing it in exactly the same way.)
Therefore, RESOLVED INVALID as this is not something to be dealt with on Bugzilla, a wiki admin needs to do it.
Comment 4 Marius Hoch 2012-11-12 22:37:40 UTC 
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/33149 Will fix the links in the footer, btw
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