Manual talk:IPv6 support

Format of address
This page claims that:

"MediaWiki expands all IPv6 addresses to their entire length (however, the number of digits in a single group between colons is always the minimum. For example 2001:db8:: expands to 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:0:0"

But this doesn't seem to be always the case: The revision shows as created by the IP  2002:3e8e:71b::3e8e:71b (notice the ::). Is there any reason for this? Or is it just some sort of historical artifact? Is there any chance this could be fixed?

This is problematic for two reasons:


 * 1) For me, this is a problem, because the address appears the same way in XML dump, which I parse in my project.
 * 2) This also seems to mean that Special:Contributions doesn't work for this address: fi:Special:Contributions/2002:3e8e:71b::3e8e:71b returns an empty list. (I'll post a bug about this to bugzilla shortly.)

Svick (talk) 11:45, 17 September 2013 (UTC)