On production wikis ...
[[File:Loudspeaker.svg|11px|link=Media:En-us-Cyprus.ogg]]
... should link to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/En-us-Cyprus.ogg, just like [[Media:En-us-Cyprus.ogg]] does, but instead it links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:En-us-Cyprus.ogg, which is wrong.
This bug exists in both the Parser and Parsoid output.
herd wrote:
You should be able to use Special:Filepath/{{{1}}} although this is an imperfect solution.
Also possibly related is bug 16162
capmo700 wrote:
Currently (MW 1.19) the "link=Media:Something.ogg" syntax is accepted but takes us to the file description page instead of actually opening the media file as would be expected:
[[File:Something.ogg]] -> opens the file description page
[[File:Image.gif|link=File:Something.ogg]] -> opens the file description page
[[Media:Something.ogg]] -> links to media file
[[File:Image.gif|link=Media:Something.ogg]] -> opens the file description page (should link to media file!)
hmmm, that's kind of odd. NS_MEDIA is special cased in Parser::replaceInternalLinks2 instead of having Title::getLocalUrl output the file's url directly...
@ssastry - Recently I discovered that the reason that pronunciation links on Wikipedia are backwards (the speaker icon links to the file page, while the text links to the actual audio) is because of this 12 year old parser bug. It looks like the bug got integrated into Parsoid as well in order to match the Parser output. The purpose of the Media pseudo-namespace is to easily allow linking to files directly, but for some reason this was never implemented correctly for the link parameter in File links. @Bawolff came tantalizingly close to fixing this seven years ago, but sadly it was never followed up on. Just wanted to bring it to your attention so it could finally be properly triaged.