This has been fixed and should be out on wikis this week if I understand
correctly (otherwise will be next week). Associated task is
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332994

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, 08:18 Bináris, <wikipo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was surprised that the blocking interface followed others, and
> automatically and unchangeably fills the field with the user name or IP.
> Thus I cannot write a range after the IP any more. I captured a very small
> image with the problem, but it is not allowed here.
> Now, while range block for IPv4 anons is an everyday task, range block for
> IPv6 anons is compulsory every time. We give /64, otherwise it is
> senseless. By this time, I just wrote "/64" on the blocking interface after
> the IP.
> I don't know, when and why happened this change, but it makes blocking
> very tricky uncomfortable. What I can do, write /64 into the URL at the
> contributions of the vandal, but that is really not what I dreamt about.
>
> Can somebody explain, why this happened? Is there a way of range blocking
> that I am not aware of? Shall I ticket a bug?
>
>
>
> --
> Bináris
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