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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day_foto.jpg (Uploaded by Dəyanət osmanlı)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton-avant1700.jpg (Uploaded by Martin Dupont IEM)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circuit_avec_l%27%C3%A9lectroaimant.jpeg (Uploaded by Martin Dupont IEM)

Cross-wiki-uploader added:

author=[[User:null|null]]

instead of attributing the user. No-one is named null, os there must be a bug in the uploading system which creates attribution problems.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	mw.ForeignStructuredUpload: Prevent 'null' author name if dialog opened when not logged in	mediawiki/core	master	+12 -3

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Open	None	T87268 Copyright license and attribution issues (tracking)
Resolved	matmarex	T122064 Clean up files uploaded with 'null' as the author
Resolved	matmarex	T121097 Cross-wiki-upload adds "null" as author

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Josve05a created this task.Dec 10 2015, 12:49 PM

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zhuyifei1999 moved this task from Incoming to Uploading on the Commons board.Dec 11 2015, 8:42 AM

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/User:Null&namespace=6&limit=500

So, that's 193 files with this issue, apparently most uploaded via the cross-wiki tool.

As far as I can tell, there should be only one way to trigger this:

Be logged out
Open an article for editing on any wiki
In another browser tab, log in on that wiki
In the original tab, without refreshing the page, upload an image

I'm not sure if people would actually do this often enough to generate this many uploads, or if something else is broken…

matmarex triaged this task as High priority.Dec 18 2015, 9:45 PM

Change 260402 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński):
mw.ForeignStructuredUpload: Prevent 'null' author name if dialog opened when not logged in

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/260402

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 21 2015, 6:22 PM

matmarex mentioned this in T122064: Clean up files uploaded with 'null' as the author.Dec 21 2015, 6:23 PM

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Change 260402 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.ForeignStructuredUpload: Prevent 'null' author name if dialog opened when not logged in

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/260402

ReleaseTaggerBot added projects: MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-01-12_(1.27.0-wmf.10)), MW-1.27-release-notes.Dec 22 2015, 2:00 AM

• Prtksxna closed this task as Resolved.Dec 22 2015, 4:49 AM

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I have corrected the problematic uploads on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Matma_Rex&dir=prev&offset=20160119213820&limit=250&target=Matma+Rex (exactly 250, as it happens).

Seven more files (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/User:Null&namespace=6) appear to be affected by some similar bugs in other tools. They're all pretty old though.