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==Progress==

===Dec 26: 301 redirects===

In Dec. 26, 2007, I created the 301 redirects from http://scholarpedia.org/* to http://www.scholarpedia.org. 

===Jan 2: Sentence case for article titles===
On Jan.2, 2008, all titles of articles in Scholarpedia were switched to the "Sentence case" (from the "Each Word In Upper Case"). This resulted in a temporal PR reduction or confusion in the search engine, but hopefully the PR will be back soon. 

===Jan 4: rel=nofollow is removed for accepted articles (reinstated on Jan.15)===
I have disabled rel=nofollow for external links in accepted articles. Since any modification to the articles should be approved by curators, there is no danger of spam. Ahmed estimated that there is no detrimental effect if reciprocal links are included. Google may actually give some points for "good" (i.e., relevant) outgoing links.

The rel=nofollow was reinstated on January 15, due to Brian's argument that it may hurt the PR by leaking it to other sites.

===Jan 11: authors are asked to link to their articles from university webpages===
I will send a mass email to all curators of accepted articles this weekend. Among other requests, I will ask them to link from their university web pages to their articles in Scholarpedia and to provide the reciprocal link at the bottom of their Scholarpedia articles to their university webpages.