FWIW, the movement strategy included a recommendation* for having a technology ethics review process [1]; maybe this is a good opportunity to experiment with creating a precursory, unofficial version of that - make a wiki page for the sock puppet detection tool, and a proposal process for such pages, and consider where we could source expert advice from.
* More precisely, it was a draft recommendation. The final recommendations were significantly less fine-grained. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommen...