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	Dec 7 2018, 2:53 PM

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I am a teaching assistant of the course General Psychology in National Taiwan University.
We score the students according to their contribution on editing the Chinese version wikibook of General Psychology.
One of the student report the edited amount/content and the revision history were not consistent with the student edited.
The student only added several symbols and the title of one book, but the contribution on the revision history was -46185, and the content was indeed modified by someone else.
Here is the link of before and after that editing history: https://zh.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?diff=109798&oldid=109730&title=%E8%B6%85%E6%99%AE%E9%80%9A%E5%BF%83%E7%90%86%E5%AD%A6%2F%E6%84%9F%E8%A6%BA%E8%88%87%E7%9F%A5%E8%A6%BA&type=revision
The student edited the page with whose own computer and the internet was provided by National Taiwan University, and the student didn't leave the computer before finished editing.
Is this a bug of wikibooks software?
Looking forward to your respond, thanks.

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D05227103 created this task.Dec 7 2018, 2:53 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptDec 7 2018, 2:53 PM

Hi,

and the content was indeed modified by someone else.

Could you explain what makes you know this, as you write "indeed"? It's always possible that someone misclicks and accidentally makes some unwanted changes.

Is this a bug of wikibooks software?

We would need clearer steps which allow reproducing the problem, I'm afraid...

Looks like that edit was made using an old revision of the page as the base. Effectively, you undid all of the changes by other users made to that page in the past few weeks.

See this diff of Miffykuan's previous edit on that page to the edit you mention: https://zh.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=超普通心理学/感覺與知覺&type=revision&diff=109798&oldid=108763 it's clear you were editing the old revision and then saved the changes to override the current page version. The interface displays a warning if you do that, but it can be easy to miss.

I don't think there's a software bug here.

Aklapper closed this task as Invalid.Dec 8 2018, 7:27 AM

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