[Labs-l] [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

Sat Jun 2 11:23:51 UTC 2012

We really need to enable it on deployment project, soon, is there any
progress regarding
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35947

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nevermind, I didn't check that the ipv6 was recently enabled there as well
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It would be so easier to update the tools if we had ipv6 enabled on
>> wikimedia labs. Right now the development is complicated since there
>> is no test site. But I am happy to see that we are getting some
>> progress in this.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> June 6, 2012 is IPv6 Day ( http://www.worldipv6day.org/ ). The goal of
>>> this global event is to move more ISPs, equipment manufacturers and
>>> web services to permanent adoption of IPv6.
>>>
>>> We're planning to do limited production testing of IPv6 during the
>>> Berlin Hackathon 2012 (June 2-3). Provided that the number of issues
>>> we encounter are manageable, we may fully enable IPv6 on IPv6 day, and
>>> keep it enabled.
>>>
>>> MediaWiki has been used with IPv6 by third party wikis for some time.
>>> Wikimedia uses a set of additional features (GlobalBlocking,
>>> CheckUser, etc.) which weren't fully IPv6-ready until recently. In
>>> addition, we're working to ensure that all of Wikimedia's various
>>> services (mailing lists, blogs, etc.) are IPv6-ready.
>>>
>>> == What's the user impact going to be? ==
>>>
>>> At least in the June 2-3, 2012 time window, you may see a small number
>>> of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form
>>> "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See [[w:IPv6 address]].
>>>
>>> These addresses should behave as any other IP adress would: You can
>>> leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions;
>>> you can block them. CIDR notation is supported for rangeblocks.
>>>
>>> An important note about blocking: A single user may have access to a
>>> much larger number of addresses than in the IPv4 model. This means
>>> that range blocks (e.g. address with "/64") have to be applied in more
>>> cases to prevent abuse by more sophisticated users.
>>>
>>> In the mid term, user scripts and tools that use simple regular
>>> expressions to match IPv4 addresses will need to be adapted for IPv6
>>> support to behave correctly. We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be
>>> very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we
>>> will assist in the monitoring of the situation.
>>>
>>> User:Jasper Deng is maintaining a comprehensive analysis of the long
>>> term implications of the IPv6 migration here:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng/IPv6
>>>
>>> We've set up a test wiki where you can see IPv6 IP addresses. This
>>> works by assigning you a fake IPv6 address the moment you visit the
>>> wiki, and allows you to see the behavior of various tools with the new
>>> address format:
>>> http://ipv6test.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>>>
>>> The best way to report issues is to register them in Bugzilla and to
>>> ensure that they are marked as blockers for the IPv6 tracking bug:
>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35540
>>>
>>> We'll post updates to wikitech-l and elsewhere as appropriate.
>>>
>>> All best,
>>> Erik
>>>
>>> --
>>> Erik Möller
>>> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
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