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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page ns="0" title="API" missing="" />
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <revisions>
          <rev user="1000" timestamp="2013-02-01T13:27:37Z" comment="" xml:space="preserve">Hello and welcome to the wiki page 1 i guess..
and i will change it aswell
See how to make a [[new page]] on the mediawiki help system (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links)</rev>
        </revisions>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>