The Search Engine Blog

Any links you have in Wikipedia are now set to NO FOLLOW. This basically instructs the search engines not to consider this as an outgoing link and strips away any benefits from having a link in Wikipedia. They claim this is to help eliminate spam, but there are doubts this will help. Let’s face it, a spammer will still place links there even if they only get a few clicks from people reading the article. They are use to dealing with low odds.

All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW