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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">All NPOV disputes</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">All articles needing references cleanup</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">All articles that need to be wikified</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Arte</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Article message templates</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Article message templates with missing parameters</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Articles that need to be wikified</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Articles that need to be wikified from" />
  </query-continue>
</api>