doc_z - 5:12 pm on Jul 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

Wikipedia pages might rank well, but that's not the same thing as saying that out-bound links from Wikipedia are valuable. Google doesn't have to PR0 a directory to devalue it's OBLs.

in the last 3 months i have managed to get about 10 wiki links that have stuck - and i have seen my serps improve. Google sees these pages as high pr relevent pages - I cant believeanyone would disagree with that.:)

I also disagree with that. Although the nofollow attribute was removed from external links (at least from the English part of Wikipedia), it seems that PR is still not passed to external pages. The benefits of external links are visitor from Wikipedia but not an improvement in the SERPs.