[Mediawiki-l] Resolving or fixing Wiki page names with a leading colon or invalid namespaces?

[ccornell - OpenOffice.org]

Somehow, there is a page on the OpenOffice.org Wiki that has a leading 
colon.  See this Category:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:PDL_License

The page in question is the first page in that category list:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/:Calc_Error_Codes

Of course when you click the link it resolves to a page without the 
leading colon, which fits with the documentation I found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)#Colons

As well, we've got two pages that seem to have invalid namespaces.  The 
first two pages listed here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:UncategorizedPages

Is there any way to move these page to the "right" name.. ie a page 
without the leading colon so that it resolves to a real Wiki page? and a 
pages without the broken/nonexistent namespace?

I've tried a few things that have worked in the past with broken pages - 
eg the pywikipediabot, but so far... no success.

Maybe an API call? or is this something that would take direct database 
tinkering to "fix"?

C.
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Clayton Cornell       ccornell at openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead