So... who gets to decide what the 'right' name is (in the disputed region where people kill each other over this) then?
On 9 Feb 2008, at 11:24, Mikel Maron wrote: > You may remember OSM's first edit war in Cyprus, last November .. > http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=244 > > It's still going on and we need a technical solution, now. Dialogue > has not been effective and banning users is not effective. > > The solution in mind is something analogous to protected pages in > Wikipedia. Edits would be checked against a list of "protected" > bbox's. > In those area, users without permission to edit would be denied, > and given warning that they should apply for access. > There would be an admin panel for selected moderators to approve/ > revoke access for users. > > 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. > A quick fix could just apply protection for Cyprus, and access > granted in some manual fashion. > > A developer is needed now to implement the quick solution, and later > the full solution. Please speak up if you can help. > > Cheers > Mikel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
