[Bug] User doesn't show in the contibutions page

[parneet-guraya]

User text field is empty whenever uploaded from web client with these options

Choosing someone else is the creator

Below, doesn't matter if you enter author name or not.

Then, from the app you can see the contribution is shown but user field is empty.

Would you like to work on this?

Yes

[parneet-guraya]

The reason is we're reading from author field when loading the data not username field and author is returned empty whenever we choose this work is created by someone else on web client.

Also, if however I upload from mobile app then we default to using the username. This is confusing so which one should be shown? username the one who uploaded or author the one who is the creator of the image?

Since, author is returned empty in this scenario, whatever piece of code uses it leads to bugs

• This PR introduced the change to use author and now this bug occurs.
• This Bug also occurs because we use author when trying to nominate for deletion.

@nicolas-raoul , what do you think?

[nicolas-raoul]

Based on what you wrote, I think our app should set both username and author.

We should not allow our users to upload other people's pictures, because 99% would be copyright violations.

Also, the app should show username when author is nnt present.

Does that sound sensible?