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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <revisions>
          <rev user="MediaWiki default" anon="" comment="" />
        </revisions>
      </page>
    </pages>
    <general mainpage="首頁" base="http://column.uneedadv.com/tw/%E9%A6%96%E9%A0%81" sitename="UneedADV 專欄 - 國際商情、世界文學" logo="http://column.uneedadv.com/tw/skins/common/images/wiki.png" generator="MediaWiki 1.24.6" phpversion="5.3.29" phpsapi="litespeed" dbtype="mysql" dbversion="8.0.36-cll-lve" langconversion="" titleconversion="" linkprefixcharset="" linkprefix="" linktrail="/^()(.*)$/sD" case="first-letter" lang="zh-tw" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-950" writeapi="" timezone="Asia/Taipei" timeoffset="480" articlepath="/tw/$1" scriptpath="/tw" script="/tw/index.php" server="http://column.uneedadv.com" servername="column.uneedadv.com" wikiid="ibt_columntw-columntw_" time="2024-05-17T07:40:49Z" maxuploadsize="104857600" minuploadchunksize="1024" favicon="http://www.uneedadv.com/favicon.ico">
      <externalimages>
        <prefix />
      </externalimages>
      <fallback>
        <lang code="zh-hant" />
        <lang code="zh-hans" />
        <lang code="en" />
      </fallback>
      <thumblimits>
        <limit>120</limit>
        <limit>150</limit>
        <limit>180</limit>
        <limit>200</limit>
        <limit>250</limit>
        <limit>300</limit>
      </thumblimits>
      <imagelimits>
        <limit width="320" height="240" />
        <limit width="640" height="480" />
        <limit width="800" height="600" />
        <limit width="1024" height="768" />
        <limit width="1280" height="1024" />
      </imagelimits>
    </general>
  </query>
</api>