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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <links gplcontinue="1|0|Forward_Calorimeter_Shift" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
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      <page pageid="37" ns="0" title="Cryogenic Target Shift" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2023-01-25T11:54:36Z" lastrevid="4583" counter="17277" length="3016" />
      <page pageid="276" ns="0" title="DIRC Shift" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2023-03-22T13:41:45Z" lastrevid="4701" counter="9028" length="6306" />
      <page pageid="39" ns="0" title="Data Acquisition Shift" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2016-03-23T23:37:45Z" lastrevid="2231" counter="14257" length="2352" />
      <page pageid="46" ns="0" title="Electronics Shift" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2022-09-20T18:40:30Z" lastrevid="4407" counter="12701" length="4949" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>