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

Sat Jun 2 12:04:24 UTC 2012

It's going to be a while. We're setting performance and stability as
our current top priority.

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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