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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <general mainpage="Main Page" base="http://lrwiki.ldc.upenn.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page" sitename="LDC Language Resource Wiki" generator="MediaWiki 1.15.5-2squeeze6" case="first-letter" rights="license as described here" lang="en" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="UTC" timeoffset="0" />
    <namespaces>
      <ns id="-2" canonical="Media" xml:space="preserve">Media</ns>
      <ns id="-1" canonical="Special" xml:space="preserve">Special</ns>
      <ns id="0" xml:space="preserve" />
      <ns id="1" subpages="" canonical="Talk" xml:space="preserve">Talk</ns>
      <ns id="2" subpages="" canonical="User" xml:space="preserve">User</ns>
      <ns id="3" subpages="" canonical="User talk" xml:space="preserve">User talk</ns>
      <ns id="4" canonical="Project" xml:space="preserve">LDC Language Resource Wiki</ns>
      <ns id="5" subpages="" canonical="Project talk" xml:space="preserve">LDC Language Resource Wiki talk</ns>
      <ns id="6" canonical="File" xml:space="preserve">File</ns>
      <ns id="7" subpages="" canonical="File talk" xml:space="preserve">File talk</ns>
      <ns id="8" canonical="MediaWiki" xml:space="preserve">MediaWiki</ns>
      <ns id="9" subpages="" canonical="MediaWiki talk" xml:space="preserve">MediaWiki talk</ns>
      <ns id="10" canonical="Template" xml:space="preserve">Template</ns>
      <ns id="11" subpages="" canonical="Template talk" xml:space="preserve">Template talk</ns>
      <ns id="12" canonical="Help" xml:space="preserve">Help</ns>
      <ns id="13" subpages="" canonical="Help talk" xml:space="preserve">Help talk</ns>
      <ns id="14" canonical="Category" xml:space="preserve">Category</ns>
      <ns id="15" subpages="" canonical="Category talk" xml:space="preserve">Category talk</ns>
      <ns id="200" canonical="Atlantean" xml:space="preserve">Atlantean</ns>
      <ns id="201" canonical="Atlantean talk" xml:space="preserve">Atlantean talk</ns>
    </namespaces>
    <namespacealiases>
      <ns id="6" xml:space="preserve">Image</ns>
      <ns id="7" xml:space="preserve">Image talk</ns>
    </namespacealiases>
    <statistics pages="121" articles="32" views="16880011" edits="1121" images="7" users="12" activeusers="2" admins="3" jobs="0" />
  </query>
</api>