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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <general mainpage="Accueil" base="http://imacs.polytechnique.fr/wikimacs/index.php/Accueil" sitename="Wikimacs" generator="MediaWiki 1.16.5" phpversion="5.6.30-0+deb8u1" phpsapi="apache2handler" dbtype="mysql" dbversion="11.8.3-MariaDB-0+deb13u1 from Debian" case="first-letter" rights="GNU Free Documentation License 1.2" lang="fr" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="UTC" timeoffset="0" articlepath="/wikimacs/index.php/$1" scriptpath="/wikimacs" script="/wikimacs/index.php" variantarticlepath="" server="http://imacs.polytechnique.fr" wikiid="wikidb-imxmw_" time="2025-12-18T07:46:02Z" />
    <namespaces>
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      <ns id="-1" case="first-letter" canonical="Special" xml:space="preserve">Spécial</ns>
      <ns id="0" case="first-letter" content="" xml:space="preserve" />
      <ns id="1" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Talk" xml:space="preserve">Discussion</ns>
      <ns id="2" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="User" xml:space="preserve">Utilisateur</ns>
      <ns id="3" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="User talk" xml:space="preserve">Discussion utilisateur</ns>
      <ns id="4" case="first-letter" canonical="Project" xml:space="preserve">Wikimacs</ns>
      <ns id="5" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Project talk" xml:space="preserve">Discussion Wikimacs</ns>
      <ns id="6" case="first-letter" canonical="File" xml:space="preserve">Fichier</ns>
      <ns id="7" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="File talk" xml:space="preserve">Discussion fichier</ns>
      <ns id="8" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="MediaWiki" xml:space="preserve">MediaWiki</ns>
      <ns id="9" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="MediaWiki talk" xml:space="preserve">Discussion MediaWiki</ns>
      <ns id="10" case="first-letter" canonical="Template" xml:space="preserve">Modèle</ns>
      <ns id="11" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Template talk" xml:space="preserve">Discussion modèle</ns>
      <ns id="12" case="first-letter" canonical="Help" xml:space="preserve">Aide</ns>
      <ns id="13" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Help talk" xml:space="preserve">Discussion aide</ns>
      <ns id="14" case="first-letter" canonical="Category" xml:space="preserve">Catégorie</ns>
      <ns id="15" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Category talk" xml:space="preserve">Discussion catégorie</ns>
    </namespaces>
    <namespacealiases>
      <ns id="6" xml:space="preserve">Image</ns>
      <ns id="7" xml:space="preserve">Image talk</ns>
      <ns id="1" xml:space="preserve">Discuter</ns>
      <ns id="3" xml:space="preserve">Discussion Utilisateur</ns>
      <ns id="7" xml:space="preserve">Discussion Fichier</ns>
      <ns id="7" xml:space="preserve">Discussion Image</ns>
      <ns id="11" xml:space="preserve">Discussion Modèle</ns>
      <ns id="13" xml:space="preserve">Discussion Aide</ns>
      <ns id="15" xml:space="preserve">Discussion Catégorie</ns>
    </namespacealiases>
    <statistics pages="37" articles="12" views="804017" edits="1686" images="3" users="6" activeusers="0" admins="2" jobs="0" />
  </query>
</api>