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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="GSOC_ideas" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page ns="0" title="Console" missing="" />
      <page pageid="88" ns="0" title="Bitfighter Wikipedia Submission" />
      <page pageid="5" ns="0" title="Building Bitfighter" />
      <page pageid="107" ns="0" title="Change the delay time for teleporters" />
      <page pageid="7" ns="0" title="Command line parameters" />
      <page pageid="81" ns="0" title="Contribute using Mercurial" />
      <page pageid="9" ns="0" title="Contributors/Credits" />
      <page pageid="42" ns="0" title="Creating hostile objects" />
      <page pageid="93" ns="0" title="Creating plugins" />
      <page pageid="13" ns="0" title="Development roadmap" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>