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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="2" pages="0" files="0" subcats="2" xml:space="preserve">Abilities</c>
      <c size="4" pages="4" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Antagonist</c>
      <c size="6" pages="6" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Article management templates</c>
      <c size="7" pages="7" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Article stubs</c>
      <c size="21" pages="21" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Blog posts</c>
      <c size="1" pages="0" files="0" subcats="1" xml:space="preserve">Bosses</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Bounties</c>
      <c size="5" pages="1" files="0" subcats="4" xml:space="preserve">Browse</c>
      <c size="5" pages="5" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Cancelled Content</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Candidates for deletion</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Category templates" />
  </query-continue>
</api>