Anomie added a comment.

  In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130915#2154997, @Xqt wrote:
  
  > @Anomie Why have these pages a namespace 105 property if this ns does no 
longer exist?
  
  
  As far as MediaWiki is concerned, a namespace is just a semi-arbitrary number 
and any number "exists". But if the namespace doesn't have any name configured, 
various things will break (e.g. pages in the namespace won't be finable in many 
usual ways, and trying to construct a title for these pages will give 
nonsensical results as seen here) due to lack of a name mapping for the 
namespace number.
  
  It's similar to the reverse problem when a new namespace is created (or when 
bugs like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87645 happen), a page exists in 
the default namespace but can't be accessed in the usual ways because its title 
now refers to a page in a different namespace.

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  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130915

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