For those lucky enough to have link in Wikipedia it is horrible, but for people like me it is great. My 3 biggest competitors for Google were listed under wikipedia, so now the gap will be narrowed. With many top sites, they get complacent with their link building, so they can always take an unexpected fall in the serps.
The last comments are missing the point I think . A wikipedia link , is just a link in terms of PR juice . A normal site that has 500+ inbound links , will not be much affected by such a change . The important thing are visitors , and even a not-so-popular wiki entry will give you an extra thousand targetted visitors a month . And constant, free, well targetted traffic is worth much more that just another link .
yeah, on one of their info pages, it explains that to control spam and PR bleed, they are now adding the nofollows to all external links. I'm finally glad they are doing this.
Report any violation of your copyright to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CP And it should be removed.
It should come as no surprise, a free editable resource like Wikipedia was bound to do something about this
I simply couldn't have said it better. Indeed, there were websites having useful links on wiki pages, but more and more webmasters started using wiki as a directory. Not saying everyone who was having a link there was not worth of it, but I hope you get me. Maybe they wanna make people stop trying to get their links on wiki.
Wikipedia annoy me. No follow is a good move, but it does mean that some sites will be losing their back links from a previously worthwhile source.
I think websites owners got over it, since the change was made 5 years ago. Your insight after about 1600 days is somewhat a duplicate content.