If I have a question about whether specific feature is okay, who is the best person to ask?
I think it would be a very good idea to ask the Foundation to develop a privacy guideline for MediaWiki and tool developers.
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.
I'm not sure if this would be feasible and/or legally sound. I'm just brainstorming here.
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.
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?)
-Interiot