Last modified: 2011-12-31 02:18:48 UTC
Redlinks to pages in the File NS shouldn't link to the edit page. Annoying and useless! Instead it should land on the page itself (no edit action) where you can "upload it" or on Special:Upload like links for embedded images. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Subfader/Red_file_link
I'm suggesting WONTFIX. You are explicitly linking to the file page by using the colon in front of it. Regular file embeds that result in red links do link to Special:Upload
Yes I do so cos I want to CREATE it, just like I do on embedding new images... My point stands: This is a useless link: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Some_new_file.jpg&action=edit&redlink=1
And it's possible since redlink=1 on existing pages will NOT edit them but redirect to the page itself: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Subfader&action=edit&redlink=1 The same way it could redirect to the file page http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php/File:Some_new_file.jpg where can decide myself what to do: "upload it" (yes) or [edit] (no!)...
I disagree. Until the description pages aren't complete freeform wiki pages [1], this is intended and expected behavior. Note that there is some cases (gadgets and toolserver tools importing off-wiki files such as from Flickr) the wiki page is created before the upload. I'm not going into the long discussion of how and why that is, but it is that way. This is done by creating the file page (may be from a read link) and putting a template in there and then the bot looks where the template is used and performs the upload. Krinkle [1] bug 31257, bug 25624
I don't see what this has to do with where a red file link like [[:File:Some new file.jpg|this]] redirects to.
(In reply to comment #1) > I'm suggesting WONTFIX. You are explicitly linking to the file page by using > the colon in front of it. > > Regular file embeds that result in red links do link to Special:Upload I agree that going to the edit page when you have a colon in front of the page is expected behaviour. Behaviour could probably be better for [[file:Foo.jpg|bar|baz]] when Foo.jpg (As noted on the support desk thread), but that's a separate bug.
It's not expected behaviour. Then [[File:Some new file.jpg|...]] would also lead to the edit page. I have never created a file page without uploading the actual file first. And I think nobody else does. Since bots (only practical example from above) don't click links, how is that user firendly?
