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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of Ranked Flags" missing="" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:List of WoWs Modules" missing="" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" />
      <page ns="14" title="Category:Lists of WoWS Modules" missing="" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" />
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      <page pageid="106470" ns="14" title="Category:Lists of Main Battery Modules" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2020-01-05T05:04:27Z" lastrevid="290339" counter="176" length="34" new="" />
      <page pageid="106332" ns="14" title="Category:Lists of Signals &amp; Flags" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2023-11-10T19:00:35Z" lastrevid="289377" counter="1660" length="57" new="" />
      <page pageid="105929" ns="14" title="Category:Lists of Torpedo Launcher Modules" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2019-08-30T16:49:17Z" lastrevid="286314" counter="487" length="34" new="" />
      <page pageid="106331" ns="14" title="Category:Lists of WoWS Achievements" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2023-02-16T03:06:55Z" lastrevid="289397" counter="463" length="62" />
      <page pageid="105927" ns="14" title="Category:Lists of WoWs Modules" contentmodel="wikitext" pagelanguage="en" touched="2021-02-22T06:50:50Z" lastrevid="289601" counter="516" length="24" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>