Mathias Schindler, board member of the Wikimedia Germany association, reacts on recent accusations that Wikipedia doesn't "nofollow" certain links to their own properties, like Wikia.com, while nofollowing links to competitors, like Wetpaint.com (HTML'ified, my emphasis): back in the early days of Wikipedia, there was a tool for building up short links to other wikis by using that pattern: [[:foo:bar]], a link to the page "bar" at the foo-wiki. (called: interwikilinks) We are using this for linking other language editions of wikipedia ( e.g. [[:en:FooBar]] ). 2004, MediaWiki introduced templates and later parameters. If you ...

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