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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <revisions>
          <rev user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2008-12-17T15:00:59Z" comment="" />
          <rev user="Olivier Laurent" timestamp="2008-12-17T22:31:26Z" comment="Preliminary table of contents" />
          <rev user="Olivier Laurent" timestamp="2008-12-28T16:26:30Z" comment="" />
          <rev user="Olivier Laurent" timestamp="2008-12-28T17:15:48Z" comment="link to sandbox" />
          <rev user="Olivier Laurent" timestamp="2009-01-07T20:25:45Z" comment="/* Contents */  adjustments in titles" />
        </revisions>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <revisions rvstartid="67" />
  </query-continue>
</api>