Die Wikipedia, DIE! But seriously, die.

Since the day I discovered Wikipedia, I have been a user and sometimes even a contributor but WP’s adoption of rel=”nofollow” has made me reassess my undying support and love of WP. Sure, WP has a SPAM problem. We all do. By adopting NOFOLLOW, they have ceded the war to the spammers. I am only one man but I deal with the trackback and comment SPAM on aimlesswords.com as part of the cost of being part of the web. On average I receive 280 SPAMs, per week. They have dozens of active volunteers and thousands of occasional volunteers. They can handle the SPAM issue with “breaking” the web by making all WP links NOFOLLOW. Seems to me they are just being lazy:

The good boys and girls at webmasterworld are discussing member MulitMan’s personal observations that some Wikipedia pages are suffering dramatic loss of rankings.

The surmise is that the addition of nofollow to all outgoing links within hours of the announcement is the cause, with the requisite “no evidence whatsoever” rule strictly adhered too heh.. My feelings remain the same however, i see nofollow as an insult to the intelligence of webmasters and a barely veiled attempt to quell the rising whine of bloggers by saying “well, we did try…”

(Via Threadwatch.org – Search & SEO/SEM.)

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