Last modified: 2013-10-18 06:14:00 UTC
There are often templates that link to whois-pages to make access to IP-related information easy. However, there are many, many providers for a whois-service and each one is different (with ads, without ads, different layouts, etc.). If you have a wiki, where anonymous users can make edits which are saved under their IP address, then whois is a basic tool in the wiki, and should imho be provided (perhaps through an extension?). Pros are: The user doesn't have to leave the site; fair and equal way to resolve this matter; no ugly external links that may require the user to enter Captchas.
The given Website ping.eu at the german wikipedia is not useable without ECMAScript/Javascript please fix that, maybe an solution would be whois.wikimedia.org which does that all for us, or randomly links to different whois services.
Changing to extension request.
Somewhat related from the admin tools backlog: "Integrate bits.wikimedia.org/geoiplookup into Admin Tools, e.g. CheckUser, so that users do not have to use a third party tool"
