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		rudedogg on Oct 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab It doesn’t actually require anyone clicking on the links. Google sees inbound links and uses that as a factor when calculating the ranking of the linked page.

IggleSniggle on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

I thought that was how it worked like a decade or more ago, but not today.

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