Template:Anontools

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Summary

Anontools lists a number of tools to help investigate a user IP. It is used in MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext and MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon to link to these external sources with the user's IP as a parameter. Because it is used exclusively on MediaWiki pages, the template is fully protected.

This template was originally copied from Wikipedia.

Examples

Takes the user IP address as a parameter. Like this:

{{anontools|91.198.174.2}}

Renders this:

[ WHOIS

• RBLs
• Geolocate
• Rangeblock finder ]
• [ RIRs: America
• Europe
• Africa
• Asia-Pacific
• Latin America/Caribbean]
• [ Wikipedia
• Google ]

If you follow those links you will find out that the IP address used in this example is for a server in Wikimedia's Amsterdam cluster in the Netherlands.

See Also

• MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext
• MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon