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test.wikipedia.org has wikidata.org as its repo causing unexpected entity creations
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Description

Odd items have been created without the account owners knowing, and with no account or label.

See:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:AN#Techman224_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_contribs_.E2.80.A2_logs.29

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:S_Page_%28WMF%29#.22My.22_contribs

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/Checkuser&oldid=5829104

2013-09-24 20:33:32 <spagewmf> FYI, WMF Ops says my mystery bogus empty Q item sessions in the last week all came from the office and with my user agent, so we're back to suspecting some gadget
2013-09-24 20:34:21 <JohnLewis> spagewmf: A gadget on Wikidata?
2013-09-24 21:13:17 <legoktm> hello
2013-09-24 21:13:29 <legoktm> spagewmf: by chance were you moving pages on a wikipedia?


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:53 AM
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We have just reproduced it :)

The issue is that test2.wikipedia.org has wikidata.org specified as its wikibase Repo.
When running the qunit tests on test2.wikipedia.org the calls to the api during these wikibase tests create these items!

Change 115366 had a related patch set uploaded by Aude:
Setup test.wikidata as repo for test2 and test.wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/115366

Change 115366 merged by jenkins-bot:
Setup test.wikidata as repo for test2 and test.wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/115366