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Bug 16933 - Media: links behave like File: links and do not directly take you to the media file
Media: links behave like File: links and do not directly take you to the medi...
Status: REOPENED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
1.24rc
All All
: Low normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-01-08 02:35 UTC by Danny B.
Modified: 2014-08-23 16:58 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Danny B. 2009-01-08 02:35:17 UTC
Media: links are mishandled in some cases.

I'll use eg. File:Glottal stop.ogg from Commons:

1)
Type Media:Glottal stop.ogg into search box on any wiki. It will take you to the bage with URL /wiki/Media:Glottal stop.ogg, but the headline says File:Glottal stop.ogg and that it does not exist, do you want to upload new?

2)
Type [[File:Loudspeaker.svg|10px|link=Media:Glottal stop.ogg|pronunciation]] in Sandbox. Clicking the icon-link will take you to the same page with the same behavior as described in 1).
Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2014-08-23 16:06:48 UTC
(In reply to Danny B. from comment #0)
> Type Media:Glottal stop.ogg into search box on any wiki. It will take you to
> the bage with URL /wiki/Media:Glottal stop.ogg, but the headline says
> File:Glottal stop.ogg and that it does not exist, do you want to upload new?

1. Checked that https://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Glottal_stop.ogg still exists.
2. Went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
3. In the search field in the upper corner, I entered
   Media:Glottal stop.ogg
   and pressed the Enter key
4. I end up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glottal_stop.ogg

-> Probably fixed in the meantime.
Comment 2 Danny B. 2014-08-23 16:24:23 UTC
Obviously not, but yet worse.

The Media:Foo.ogg/jpeg/gif/etc... link is supposed to take you directly to the media file, but not to the File page. So now the "Media" namespace behaves exactly like "File", which is incorrect.

Seems somebody added Media as an alias to File?

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