Why doesn't DMOZ use Wikipedia method?

Please don't remained me, if something happens at Google, most of my traffic is gone, no DMOZ can save me then.

 

Wikipedia have their own issues. The staff have just had to add "nofollow" to external links because of it. See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-January/061137.html for details. Seems like SEOs are seeing that Wikipedia could be used as a tool to manipulate search results and are piling on....

 

Was this problem caused by all the DMOZ admins and Metas spam of wikipedia?

 

A wise move in my opinion. Thanks for the info Alucard.

 

Good! Hopefully they will place that info on some very noticeable spot, link wars are rather annoying, although not really fair for sources.

 

In Spanish: A mi no importa.
In English: Like I care.
In japanese: Kanke Nai

Or lets say a Directory Like This

 

So what this link http://www.diablodirectory.com/detail/link-8.html as to do with the subject.

 

Where/how do you add details of a site to wikipedia?

 

vwdforum, that's not why Wikipedia is there. It shouldn't be used for seo purposes, which is why they've had to add the no follow tags to try to combat the abuse.

 

Only problem is robots don't care, if I'm getting few dozen visits from Wiki form totally obscure pages (where I'm listed as source ) I can only imagine how much traffic some popular pages can get, probably thousands and thousands of visits that alone is more then worth to spammer to keep spamming.

Only good solution would be DMOZ method of external links not showing until approved by some editor which has enough edits to have that privilege, since Wiki has no good editor shortage unlike DMOZ this could would be nice method if it can be programmed.

 

Have you informed the DMOZ admins about your opinion, I don't think that they agree?

 

From what I understand, which isn't a whole lot, editors aren't doing it for seo purposes. There's some other reason, something Wikipedia approves of? Now, I could be wrong, it's just what I heard.

Besides, the higher ups have been hearing from me way too much lately. I don't think they need additional rants from me on other topics.

 

That was funny, what is the reason behind their spam that wikipedia approve of?

They spam DMOZ and they spam wikipedia in the same way, it is all about SEO and the money in the end.

 

Like I said, I don't know the reasons, I don't do Wikipedia. It's just something I heard, I could be completely wrong. Bad sources, ya know?

 

You should stop socializing with bad sources like Admins who feed you bad information.