wikipedia links wont be counted

no follow links

[AjiNIMC]

Hi,

I found that many people are posting to wikipedia but I see that the links are getting a nofollow attribute.

So no point in wasting time there, but why are the pages not getting crawled, Is there something in robots.txt?

Aji

[AjiNIMC]

more news to it

Google may host encyclopedia project
Wikipedia.org could soon be hosted on Google's servers, as the search giant looks for ways of supporting the Wikimedia Foundation.

[zdnet.com.au...]

[zgb999]

Over time Wikipedia will loose a lot of people adding content due to that.

I understand why they did it but it will hurt Wikipedia.

[vincevincevince]

You've forgotten about the 'mirrors' and 'clones'...

[AjiNIMC]

but the concept was good, I liked it, wiki culture is cool.

Google was a little concern , check out (the google blog and look for the post entitled "preventing-comment-spam" )

[edited by: martinibuster at 12:27 am (utc) on Feb. 17, 2005]
[edit reason] I gave up on fixing the url. Ack. :) [/edit]

[Lord Majestic]

I found that many people are posting to wikipedia but I see that the links are getting a nofollow attribute.

I don't think "nofollow" should be taken literally -- spiders can still follow link and discover new page, however the link pointing to your site from that page will be ignored for purposes of calculating rank of a page based on link popularity. It is probable that anchor text will be ignored as well.

[lazerbud]

I don't think links from wikipedia will show up in your backlinks, but I've noticed a fair bit of traffic rolling in from one of the links to my website on Wikipedia, so it does have it's benefits.