This page is about the use of this address on Wikipedia. For information about the address itself, see
localhost.
This
IPv4address, 127.0.0.1, along with the
IPv6 address 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 (which redirects here), are registered to localhost, the loopback address from the local computer. All edits attributed to this IP (besides those resulting from a
server misconfiguration in 2013 and
another one in 2015) have been made by one of Wikimedia's system administrators.[1]
Note to new users: This is not a testing space. Please experiment at
Wikipedia:Sandbox.
^A configuration change in 2017 (
phab:T154698) should prevent further unregistered edits from this address; however, configuration errors can still result in it being used by normal registered users. Several have occurred since 2017.