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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
<query-continue>
<allcategories accontinue="Wikipedia_books_(community_books)" />
</query-continue>
<query>
<allcategories>
<c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Annotated image templates</c>
<c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Books</c>
<c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Graphic templates</c>
<c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">MiniTT1 and FlexTT5</c>
<c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">MiniTT1 and FlexTT5:1</c>
<c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Pages with broken file links</c>
<c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Template documentation</c>
<c size="21" pages="21" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Template sandboxes</c>
<c size="23" pages="23" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Templates with print versions</c>
<c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0" xml:space="preserve">Unprintworthy redirects</c>
</allcategories>
</query>
</api>