As reported on the Wikimedia Commons Village Pump https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#The_upload_script_no_longer_takes_the_date_given_as_the_original_photograph_date
User are reporting that UploadWizard pre-populates the data field with the file last modification date, not the file creation date.
(I have not reproduced this myself, just filing this as tracker)
(Auditing rEUWI, there does not seem to be any changes related to this… Tentatively tagging @matthiasmullie and @Esanders as the last committers).
User:Basile Morin has provided the following examples:
| Example 1 (correct date) | Example 2 (wrong date) | |
| GPS date (Exif metadata) | 16 December 2018 | 16 January 2019 |
| Date and time of data generation (Exif metadata) | 17:04, 16 December 2018 | 06:32, 17 January 2019 |
| File change date and time (Exif metadata) | 14:27, 23 February 2019 | 20:41, 23 March 2019 |
| Date metadata was last modified (Exif metadata) | 21:27, 23 February 2019 | 03:41, 24 March 2019 |
| Date and time of digitizing (Exif metadata) | 17:04, 16 December 2018 | 10:02, 20 January 2019 |
| Date of last version uploaded | 07:30, 23 February 2019 | 13:47, 23 March 2019 |
| Date recorded in the file page with UploadWizard | 17:04:16, 16 December 2018 | 08:45:51, 22 March 2019 |