I would like to hereby globally request this for my account.
I never did formally opt in (*besides agreeing whenever I opened the XTools in general) and both of the linked pages were never created.
The section detailing how to accomplish this, does not presently seem to explain my issue very well.
The English Wikipedia always shows all statistics and does not allow opting out. The other wikis you've edited are already showing the opted-out version of the edit counter (only the year count and namespace stats) and there's no way of opting out further.
Anyway, the entire concept of having to opt in to show certain stats is nonsense IMO - the data this is derived from is public anyway so it's just security theater.
RE: the entire concept of having to opt in to show certain stats is nonsense IMO
Hi Pppery, One side of me agrees with you, but did you know that the English Wikipedia was an opt-in wiki when I joined in 2007 and for many years (can't remember how many) thereafter? I always tried to read the xtools (I think it was called something different then) analysis of those who opted in. I found it helped communication greatly in an online world where you cannot read facial expressions.
I guess I better stop philosophizing, it is probably not welcome here? ..and I cannot further summarize this in edit summary, sigh