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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="2928" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <revisions>
          <rev user="Korth" comment="Protected &quot;[[Main Page]]&quot;: Excessive spamming: 11-06 ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (expires 12:12, 7 November 2021 (UTC)) [Move=Allow only administrators] (expires 12:12, 7 November 2021 (UTC))) [cascading]" />
        </revisions>
      </page>
    </pages>
    <general mainpage="Main Page" base="https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Main_Page" sitename="Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase" logo="/skins/common/images/ha_logo.png" generator="MediaWiki 1.22.7" phpversion="7.4.33" phpsapi="fpm-fcgi" dbtype="mysql" dbversion="8.0.36" imagewhitelistenabled="" langconversion="" titleconversion="" linkprefix="" linktrail="/^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD" case="first-letter" rights="GNU Free Documentation License 1.2" lang="en" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="UTC" timeoffset="0" articlepath="/index.php?title=$1" scriptpath="" script="/index.php" variantarticlepath="" server="https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io" wikiid="hydrogen_wiki" time="2024-05-05T04:51:51Z" maxuploadsize="104857600">
      <externalimages>
        <prefix>http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/</prefix>
        <prefix>http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/</prefix>
        <prefix>https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/</prefix>
        <prefix>https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/</prefix>
      </externalimages>
      <fallback />
    </general>
  </query>
</api>