Module:IPAddress/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Module:IPAddress (see that page for the module itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original module page.

This module is used in MediaWiki:Newarticletext.
Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Festipedia user interface. To avoid large-scale disruption, any changes should first be tested in this module's /sandbox or /testcases subpage, or in your own user space. The tested changes can then be added in one single edit to this module. Please discuss any changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Functions are not "local", so other modules can require this module and call them directly. We return an object with 3 small stub functions to call the real ones so that the functions can be called from templates also.

Only dotted decimal notation for IPv4 supported. Does not support dotted hexadecimal, dotted octal, or single-number formats.