Ah.  Then no there isn’t a problem.  Just keep wherever it’s saved secure, 
allow the user to delete their info at any time and disclose that this 
information is stored to the users.  https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot does this 
in the user preferences.

Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
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Global User Renamer

> On Feb 10, 2018, at 11:00, Martin Urbanec <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Repeating myself: A) having an email address in your account isn't required 
> for editing B) what if I don't have an account?
> 
> M.
> 
> so 10. 2. 2018 v 16:57 odesílatel Maximilian Doerr 
> <[email protected]> napsal:
>> Why not just make use of the Special:EmailUser function?
>> 
>> Cyberpower678
>> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
>> English Wikipedia Administrator
>> Global User Renamer
>> 
>>> On Feb 10, 2018, at 06:26, Martin Urbanec <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello, 
>>> 
>>> upon request at Czech Wikipedia's helpdesk I created a tool that sends 
>>> notifications about new weekly articles by e-mail together with its first 
>>> paragraph and link to it. To accomplish such a thing I need user's email, 
>>> so I firstly decided to store it in a database. To prevent this tool from 
>>> spamming I of course require its confirmation by accessing an URL with a 
>>> random string (MD5 hash of user's email and random number from 1 to 100; I 
>>> mean, those two things are in one hash). You can have a look at this tool 
>>> at tools.wmflabs.org/wiki2email/.
>>> 
>>> My question is: Is this okay? Should I add some kind of formal information 
>>> to the tool? If so, is there some help page? Should I stop with collecting 
>>> mails at all and use some WMF-maintained service for mass-emailing (mailman 
>>> at lists.wikimedia.org maybe?) and make the tool to just send an email to 
>>> the list itself? 
>>> 
>>> This question came to my mind before creating, so I do appologize for 
>>> asking after programming. 
>>> 
>>> Best regards, 
>>> Martin Urbanec
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