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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <general mainpage="Main Page" base="http://mhsecure.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page" sitename="MH Wiki" generator="MediaWiki 1.16.2" phpversion="5.3.29" phpsapi="cgi-fcgi" dbtype="mysql" dbversion="10.6.19-MariaDB" case="first-letter" rights="" lang="en" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" writeapi="" timezone="UTC" timeoffset="0" articlepath="/mediawiki/index.php?title=$1" scriptpath="/mediawiki" script="/mediawiki/index.php" variantarticlepath="" server="http://mhsecure.com" wikiid="mhsecur_community" time="2024-11-15T14:21:41Z" />
    <namespaces>
      <ns id="-2" case="first-letter" canonical="Media" xml:space="preserve">Media</ns>
      <ns id="-1" case="first-letter" canonical="Special" xml:space="preserve">Special</ns>
      <ns id="0" case="first-letter" content="" xml:space="preserve" />
      <ns id="1" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Talk" xml:space="preserve">Talk</ns>
      <ns id="2" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="User" xml:space="preserve">User</ns>
      <ns id="3" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="User talk" xml:space="preserve">User talk</ns>
      <ns id="4" case="first-letter" canonical="Project" xml:space="preserve">MH Wiki</ns>
      <ns id="5" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Project talk" xml:space="preserve">MH Wiki talk</ns>
      <ns id="6" case="first-letter" canonical="File" xml:space="preserve">File</ns>
      <ns id="7" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="File talk" xml:space="preserve">File talk</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">MediaWiki talk</ns>
      <ns id="10" case="first-letter" canonical="Template" xml:space="preserve">Template</ns>
      <ns id="11" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Template talk" xml:space="preserve">Template talk</ns>
      <ns id="12" case="first-letter" canonical="Help" xml:space="preserve">Help</ns>
      <ns id="13" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Help talk" xml:space="preserve">Help talk</ns>
      <ns id="14" case="first-letter" canonical="Category" xml:space="preserve">Category</ns>
      <ns id="15" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Category talk" xml:space="preserve">Category talk</ns>
      <ns id="274" case="first-letter" canonical="Widget" xml:space="preserve">Widget</ns>
      <ns id="275" case="first-letter" subpages="" canonical="Widget talk" xml:space="preserve">Widget talk</ns>
    </namespaces>
    <namespacealiases>
      <ns id="6" xml:space="preserve">Image</ns>
      <ns id="7" xml:space="preserve">Image talk</ns>
    </namespacealiases>
    <statistics pages="28" articles="9" views="484987" edits="155" images="2" users="13" activeusers="8" admins="3" jobs="0" />
  </query>
</api>