We all know that Wikipedia puts a nofollow on all of their outgoing links.  There is no way around it - if you put your link up on Wikipedia, it will be nofollowed.  The thing about these Wikipedia links, however, is that they seem to pass a definite amount of link juice.

Lately, it seems like Google is trying to move away from their old algorithm of always first lookig at the anchor text and the link structure and then moving on to the linked site.  Nowadays they are looking more at how sites network with each other.  They might even give certain sites a bit of authority (like Wikipedia) and letting rank trickle down from their (be it from nofollow links or not).

I personally believe that Wikipedia is manually dofollowed (at least to a certain extent).  At the very least, there is some benefit from having your link on Wikipedia.  Could this be from higher domain trust?  Or maybe a forced do-follow put on by the big G?

I’m not too positive…. what do you think?