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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page ns="0" title="Main Page" missing="" />
    </pages>
    <general mainpage="Página principal" base="http://pt.wiki.guifi.net/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal" sitename="Guifi.net - Rede Livre - Wiki Português" logo="/skins/guifi/images/wiki.png" generator="MediaWiki 1.22.0" phpversion="5.4.45-0+deb7u2" phpsapi="apache2handler" dbtype="mysql" dbversion="5.5.47-0+deb7u1" imagewhitelistenabled="" langconversion="" titleconversion="" linkprefix="" linktrail="/^([áâãàéêẽçíòóôõq̃úüűũa-z]+)(.*)$/sDu" case="first-letter" rights="GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 &amp; Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License" lang="pt" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="Europe/Berlin" timeoffset="120" articlepath="/wiki/$1" scriptpath="/w" script="/w/index.php" variantarticlepath="" server="http://pt.wiki.guifi.net" wikiid="wikianfitrion-guifi_pt_" time="2024-05-04T02:32:12Z" maxuploadsize="104857600">
      <fallback>
        <lang code="pt-br" />
        <lang code="en" />
      </fallback>
    </general>
  </query>
</api>