Open PDF in MediaWiki

Question

In my mediawiki, I can link to internal PDFs using:

[[File:test.pdf]]

But if the user clicks the link, a single page for this file is opened like:

http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/File:test.pdf

How can I achieve, that the PDF file is opened directly with no other pages in between needed?

Answer 1

You can use the Media: pseudonamespace to link directly to the file:

[[Media:Test.pdf]]

This will link to:

http://localhost/wikimedia/images/d/d3/Test.pdf

The (slight) documentation about this is at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#file-links