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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="6" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <revisions>
          <rev user="Bo3b admin" comment="Bo3b admin moved page [[Main Page]] to [[Bo3b&#039;s School for Shaderhackers]]: don&#039;t want &quot;main page&quot; text" />
        </revisions>
      </page>
    </pages>
    <general mainpage="Bo3b&#039;s School for Shaderhackers" base="https://wiki.bo3b.net/index.php?title=Bo3b%27s_School_for_Shaderhackers" sitename="Bo3b&#039;s School for Shaderhackers" logo="/skins/common/images/Avatar.png" generator="MediaWiki 1.22.6" phpversion="7.4.33" phpsapi="cgi-fcgi" dbtype="mysql" dbversion="8.0.28-0ubuntu0.20.04.3" imagewhitelistenabled="" langconversion="" titleconversion="" linkprefix="" linktrail="/^([a-z]+)(.*)$/sD" case="first-letter" rights="Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike" lang="en" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="America/Los_Angeles" timeoffset="-480" articlepath="/index.php?title=$1" scriptpath="" script="/index.php" variantarticlepath="" server="https://wiki.bo3b.net" wikiid="wiki_bo3b_net_2" time="2025-02-16T02:01:18Z" maxuploadsize="104857600">
      <fallback />
    </general>
  </query>
</api>