interiot@68k.org wrote:
I was under the impression that the edit-count opt-in was required due to possible legal liability to German Wikimedia, not because of Foundation issues.
Foremost, it's a request by the German Wikimedia e.V., yes. I do think that the foundation should have a clear position on this however, independent of local legislation. After all, it also concerns possible future features of MediaWiki.
It would be good to have better guidelines from German Wikimedia... toolserver authors can write tools and wait for German Wikimedia to request that they be turned off or moved to other servers, but tool developers would spend less time writing wasted code if they knew the german toolserver policy better beforehand.
Indeed. I guess no one really thought about it until now.
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.
-- Daniel