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VisualEditor breaks Media links
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I recently added VisualEditor to my Wikis. A user reports that when editing and saving a page with a Media link like

[[Media:sample.pdf|download]]

it is transformed to

[[index.php?title=Media:sample.pdf|download]]

which breaks the link. As mentioned in T198511, using Special/Filepath instead is safe.

This happens with MediaWiki 1.39.6 and VisualEditor 0.1.2.

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joernc_unibi created this task.Feb 9 2024, 2:25 PM
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matmarex subscribed.Feb 10 2024, 2:08 AM

This should work correctly if you set up short URLs on your wiki, see T270219: VisualEditor does not support wikis without short URLs and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

If you can't set up rewrite rules to get "nice" short URL, try using $wgUsePathInfo=true instead, which might work on your server and will work with VisualEditor.

matmarex closed this task as a duplicate of T265144: Media links get mangled when edited with VisualEditor if short URLs are not set up(?).Feb 10 2024, 2:08 AM
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