Thread:Project:Support desk/GlobalBlocking extension and IPv6/reply (4)

Current status of IPv6 support on MediaWiki is documented at IPv6 support and IPv6 deployment.

IPv6 is already deployed on a few of the Uncyclopedias (Japan and Taiwan both have it, although they might get at best one or two anon-IPv6 edits in recentchanges *per week*.) If 'ansaikuropedia.org' is a top-20000 website serving one of the most IPv6-aware regions worldwide? Odds are other IPv6 MediaWiki installations are seeing even less native v6 traffic, but that's not the fault of MediaWiki, Apache, Squid/Varnish or anything in core code. The support is there. It works.

WMF is doing nothing for the www.worldipv6launch.org event, but the core software is ready.

For extensions? Affected are primarily extensions which use the IPv4/IPv6 address to check anon-IP and new registrations against lists of known spammers. Check Spambots does nothing of interest under IPv6 as it's just a wrapper around a set of existing IPv4 blacklist servers. It doesn't break anything, but there is no IPv6 blacklist to check against. CheckUser has been reported as working in IPv6. Not sure if any other extensions have been tested against spam and vandalism from IPv6 users as I've yet to see the first user IPv6-banned for doing anything particularly bad. At one or two edits per week, it might be a while... and the first one will just be special:block'ed the old-fashioned way. :)