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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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Are the Server Fault and Super User domains officially supported by the API?

Yeah, Serverfault, Superuser are supported just like StackOverflow. There was a post from Geoff Dalgas in dev.meta, but I don't see the post here related to that Let me quote some part of the post …
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What is the Errors endpoint used for?

Pass the parameter ?type=jsontext to see error JSON http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/errors/404?type=jsontext http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/errors/500?type=jsontext Note: if you don't put ?type= …
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API methods that return a single Item by id: unnecessary parameters to remove?

Yes, it is correct to have those parameters, because those are not only for single item. They planned (may be already or partially work) to accept vectorized request like /questions/1;2;3 above …
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`type=jsontext` JSON results for help pages

It was deferred before, but I still think it would be great feature for code generators.
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Are these fields redundant?

Flags does not included in score in real site, so we need both. (When someone flag it, community user put a temporary downvote for 2 days)
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Access to /users/recent/ (Recent Activity) through the API

Current API is read-only, and /users/recent info can only viewed by yourself (404 for other users). So, API shouldn't expose the informations that real site doesn't. Actually, there is users/timeline …
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Prevent that posts tagged with app or library enter Community Wiki mode when the owner edits...

Edit: I am afraid, it is by-designed at the moment. Please take a look at this FAQ on meta The post has been edited eight (8) times by the original owner. It is to prevent, question bumping in …
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API having more rights than a 0 rep user.

Actually, there is timeline for any users, that can see up/down votes as well. https://stackapps.com/posts/551/timeline
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