Another
question: If the toolserver had the ability to confirm that a specific user is an admin or
a
checkuser, would it be okay with German WIkimedia if tools would provide all information
to admins
or checkusers? (eg. even when other users haven't opted-in yet?)
In some cases, I would say yes. But it has to be decided on a case by
case basis, IMHO. Saying "admins can see anything" wouldn't do.
I don't think it's consistent to say that german toolserver developers can run
queries that admins
can't, when some of us aren't admins, and most of us aren't checkusers.
Do toolserver developers need to start being careful about the private queries they run?
Even
though most of the data is available from download.wikimedia.org? (I guess the archive
table is only
partially available to people who have downloaded previous versions of
download.wikimedia.org data)
-Interiot