Toolserver:List of things to ask WM-DE

Edit counters
Given that all major wikis rely on edit counters (See w:en:WP:RfA and w:de:Wikipedia:Sichter for uses) and the balance of German privacy laws, what data are we allowed to display. Keep in mind that there are third party competing edit counter such as http://en.wikichecker.com that provides high granularity. Note that Wikimedians may choose to use a pseudonym.


 * Total sum of edits
 * Two figure can be obtained, one through MediaWiki API which includes deleted edit and another by COUNT of the revision table. The difference is the number of edit deleted.


 * Date of First Edit
 * Easily obtain through MediaWiki's API and HTML interfaces. Some users have argued that the user's contribution page to be limited to the past 30 days.  Also, we can calculate the average edit rate per day.


 * Edits by Namespace
 * More difficult to obtain from MediaWiki, require the cycling through every namespace and summing the edits. Can be used to profile users, drama users are likely to have more Use_talk edit, programmers more Template edits, policy debtors more Wikipedia/Wikipedia_talk edits, article writers and vandals more (article)/Talk edits.


 * Edits by Month
 * Can be obtain with also as much ease as Edits by month, requires cycling through every month and summing the edits. Can be used to determine the domancy of a user.


 * Most edited Articles
 * Time consuming, sometimes simply looking through a user's contributions can tell what they've edited the most. However, a more elaborate method involves opening the XML formatted contribute from the API into Excel 2007, creating a pivot "Summarize using a Pivot table", select the "title" and "ns" fields, changing the "Summarize value field by" to "Count", then sorting by "ns".  This can be used to determine what a particular user's interest are and which article they've contributed the most to.


 * Edits by Day of Week
 * Some user script tools perform this. Excel may be able to do something similar.  Show the user's weekday activity, may be useful to check if the person is busy on a particular day.


 * Edits by Hour
 * Typically combined with Edits by Day of Week. Can show a user's activity pattern and possibly their sleeping pattern.  Is a Tool allowed to show the status of the user based on past activity, such as showing "Currently sleeping/waking/Editing" icons without show the patterns?


 * Geo-location restriction
 * Consider the privacy law is presumably only applicable to Germany we could disable advanced functionality for German and Unknown IP addresses.


 * Globe opt-in and opt-out
 * Consider the different stances of enwiki (wants default opt-out) and dewiki (wants default opt-in) would default of opt-in be allowed?


 * Remote loading
 * There's there's already a tool that remotely loads data and code from the WMF servers using JavaScript thus being nothing more than a boot strap loader. Is the remote code loaded and executed on the user host machine subject to WM-DE rules?

Nazi imagery
Given that German law prohibits display of Nazi Symbols (see commons:Template:Nazi symbol) what efforts, if any, should Toolserver users take to prevent the display of the symbol.

Examples include image creation/editing tools, not to mention the Unicode symbols (U+5350, U+534D)