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<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="20796" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <revisions>
          <rev user="Haiqu" timestamp="2011-06-03T03:08:17Z" comment="Text replace - &quot;Cruising and Sailing Wiki by CruiserLog&quot; to &quot;World Cruising and Sailing Wiki&quot;" />
          <rev user="Lighthouse" timestamp="2007-10-21T18:13:58Z" comment="[[Main Page]] moved to [[Cruising and Sailing Wiki by CruiserLog]]: Rename page" />
        </revisions>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>