<p>Obviously, the administrator of a wiki webpage can make updates to it, but what I would like to know is if the edits section (what comes up when you click on the clock icon) can itself be modified by the administrator? In other words, can a teacher have posted a notice, changed it, and then erased the record of that change?</p>
<p>Bump! I need to make sure I am not going crazy, LOL.</p>
<p>One last try…I would like to know if the edit log of a wiki can itself be edited somehow. Can an edit log entry be deleted or hidden? For example, if the admin. were to revert to an earlier version of the page, would that still show up as an edit?</p>
<p>I have never built or managed a website, and have no idea how this works. Google search only shows me that wikis are more flexible about edits than blogs.</p>
<p>I don’t have an answer to your question but am curious about why a teacher would do this?</p>
<p>[Manual:Administrators</a> - MediaWiki](<a href=“http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Administrators]Manual:Administrators”>Manual:Administrators - MediaWiki)
To answer your question, admins can edit history.</p>
<p>A teacher might be motivated to do this after she is asked to justify a highly unreasonable and inappropriate assignment and can’t, and so wants to cover her a** and claim she never gave such an assignment. Further, she may try to imply the parent and student are confused. Then, for good measure and to point out who it is who is in the wrong, she adds that if there is ever any doubt about what the homework is, the parent or student really should be checking her wiki. The parent counters that the assignment was indeed found on the wiki, and on two separate days by two different people each time, and was also confirmed with a classmate, though admittedly the entry has now been changed to something totally different. Then the teacher can deny it, say you’re delusional, and you can even check the history to see the page was not edited. </p>
<p>So then the parent starts to wonder if maybe she is going crazy and posts on CC for a reality check. But the parent highly doubts that she is the crazy one, because she had seen said wiki post history altered before. For example, the announcement about the first help session was modified a week later to read “Next help session”, as if to imply there had been a previous one.</p>
<p>It sounds to me that Ctrl Print Screen could be your friend in such situations.</p>
<p>My thoughts exactly.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t the entire class have seen the assignment? This is a really odd scenario.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind using up some toner, maybe you could print the applicable pages every day and compare them - then, if the teacher is making changes, you’d have evidence to bring to the teacher or perhaps a higher-up.</p>
<p>This teacher sometimes, but not always announces the homework in class. Students are supposed to check the wiki. However, if there is class on Friday, and then not again until Tuesday due to the A day / B day scheduling, then some kids might not have checked the wiki for homework until Monday afternoon, by which point it was already changed due to my communication with the teacher. Further, since the homework was posted Friday but not listed as due until Thursday, some students may have only looked at what listed as due under the Tuesday heading, and not even noticed it yet. So on Tuesday, the teacher announces the “new” HW for Thursday, and no one is the wiser, or else thanks their lucky stars she has forgotten or changed her mind (which she tends to do). Before I protested the assignment, we checked the wiki twice and D also checked with one other student in the class, who confirmed the assignment. D doesn’t know who else also thought that was the assignment. D did not think it wise to poll her peers while in the class, and does not know anyone else or see anyone else outside of class.</p>
<p>Yes, I know it still sounds kind of weird, which is why I doubt myself. But it is unlikely that D and I both read it wrong. Also, the assignment we saw aligned perfectly with what was done in class that Friday, which was to begin the process.</p>