The Wikipedia is now offically unable to deal with the huge amount of spammers that target their articles, they have decided to add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to all external links! This is not a unexpected move, I had expected that Wikipedia would decleare defeat this soon. I sort of expected that the huge community of spamfighting Wikipedians would be more than enough to monitor the articles.
The rel=”nofollow” attribute is only good with a few search engines, and is not enough to stop spammers. Just look at the huge amount of blog spam. According to one source 96% of all attemted blog posts are spam. At the same time most blogs use the nofollow attributeWhen I in a few years look back, then this will be the day that marked the downfall of Wikipedia.

[tags]nofollow, spam, Wikipeda[/tags]