Done in r44972

r44972 isn't quite behaving transparently; non-view URLs are also being redirected to the raw view page, so for instance an ?action=edit or diff or whatever gets lost.

See for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png?action=edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:Wiki.png?action=edit

these both currently behave just like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki.png?action=edit

while with this patch the Media: one would unexpectedly redirect to the view URL.

The redirection should probably just be done where other existing normalization is... perhaps all that's actually needed is just to replace a Media: Title with the equivalent File: one when initializing the title in the first place, and the existing normalization-redirection will take care of it.

Rolling it back for now in r44981.

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r44972 isn't quite behaving transparently; non-view URLs are also being
redirected to the raw view page, so for instance an ?action=edit or diff or
whatever gets lost.

See for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png?action=edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:Wiki.png?action=edit

these both currently behave just like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki.png?action=edit

while with this patch the Media: one would unexpectedly redirect to the view
URL.

The redirection should probably just be done where other existing normalization
is... perhaps all that's actually needed is just to replace a Media: Title with
the equivalent File: one when initializing the title in the first place, and
the existing normalization-redirection will take care of it.

Rolling it back for now in r44981.

Probably not related to those two revs, but currently that NS_MEDIA link is shining in it's full glory as a MWException:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:Wiki.png?action=edit

MediaWiki internal error.

Original exception: exception 'MWException' with message 'MWNamespace::getTalk does not make any sense for given namespace -2' in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.18/includes/Namespace.php:40
Stack trace: (See attachment)

Created attachment 9203
MWException on Media:-titles with a specified action

Attached:

New in 1.18 afaik.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS-thumb.jpg
->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS-thumb.jpg

Works now.

In T18677#217873, @brion wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png?action=edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:Wiki.png?action=edit

these both currently behave just like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki.png?action=edit

Works now.

[..] currently that NS_MEDIA link is shining in it's full glory as a MWException:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:Wiki.png?action=edit

HTTP 500: MediaWiki internal error.

Not anymore.