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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <general mainpage="Pagina principale" base="https://www.astropiombino.org:80/index.php?title=Pagina_principale" sitename="Associazione Astrofili di Piombino" generator="MediaWiki 1.13.4" case="first-letter" rights="GNU Free Documentation License 1.2" lang="it" fallback8bitEncoding="windows-1252" timezone="UTC" timeoffset="0" />
    <namespaces>
      <ns id="-2">Media</ns>
      <ns id="-1">Speciale</ns>
      <ns id="0" />
      <ns id="1" subpages="">Discussione</ns>
      <ns id="2" subpages="">Utente</ns>
      <ns id="3" subpages="">Discussioni utente</ns>
      <ns id="4">Associazione Astrofili di Piombino</ns>
      <ns id="5" subpages="">Discussioni Associazione Astrofili di Piombino</ns>
      <ns id="6">Immagine</ns>
      <ns id="7" subpages="">Discussioni immagine</ns>
      <ns id="8">MediaWiki</ns>
      <ns id="9" subpages="">Discussioni MediaWiki</ns>
      <ns id="10">Template</ns>
      <ns id="11" subpages="">Discussioni template</ns>
      <ns id="12">Aiuto</ns>
      <ns id="13" subpages="">Discussioni aiuto</ns>
      <ns id="14">Categoria</ns>
      <ns id="15" subpages="">Discussioni categoria</ns>
    </namespaces>
    <namespacealiases />
    <statistics pages="3225" articles="427" views="7772743" edits="8156" images="2779" users="7" admins="2" jobs="0" />
  </query>
</api>