<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>You may remember OSM's first edit war in Cyprus, last November .. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=244">http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=244</a></span><br><br>It's still going on and we need a technical solution, now. Dialogue has not been effective and banning users is not effective.<br><br>The solution in mind is something analogous to protected pages in Wikipedia. Edits would be checked against a list of "protected" bbox's.<br> In those area, users without permission to edit would be denied, and given warning that they should apply for access. <br>There would be an admin panel for selected moderators to approve/revoke access for users. <br><br>That's (very sketchily) the full package, and it could take some time to implement. Right now, there's an immediate
need to protect Cyprus.<br>A quick fix could just apply protection for Cyprus, and access granted in some manual fashion.<br><br>A developer is needed now to implement the quick solution, and later the full solution. Please speak up if you can help.<br><br>Cheers<br>Mikel<br><br><br><br><br></div></div></body></html>