Last modified: 2014-08-06 10:55:02 UTC
[[mw:Manual:IPv6 support]] says that in MediaWiki, IPv6 addresses in MediaWiki are always in their full length. But this doesn't always seem to be the case: The revision https://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=72074 shows with the address of 2002:3e8e:71b::3e8e:71b (notice the ::). This also means that Special:Contributions doesn't work for this address: [[fi:Special:Contributions/2002:3e8e:71b::3e8e:71b]] incorrectly shows an empty list. This could be related to bug 44800.
Thanks for taking the time to report this! Confirming. Same shown here: https://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helsinki&offset=20041101050307&limit=3&action=history However, that edit is from 2004. Would love to know if there are more recent examples for this problem...
Seems unrelated to bug 44800 because the address is in revision table instead of recentchanges. I guess what we need now is a script to fix existing compact IPv6 addresses.
I don't understand the updated title. Where does “misses last character” come from? Three-letter parts are perfectly fine in IPv6 addresses.
> However, that edit is from 2004. Would love to know if there are more recent examples for this problem... Not on fiwiki. There are 25 IPv6 edits with "::" in them, from 4 different addresses, but all of them are from October and November 2004.
There was a change to use always the full format and not the short. That means in 2004 the short format was used (and saved), which includes also missing leading zeros and than you have 3 characters. 2002:3e8e:71b::3e8e:71b is the shortest form, where 2002:3e8e:071b:0000:0000:0000:3e8e:071b is the longest form Needs maintenance script
Thanks for explaining - I didn't know that.
It would make sense to revert this completely, because it's actually rather confusing given that Special:Contribs and other places now show it in the short format.
