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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lecontinue="20220504065042|4468" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
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      </item>
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      </item>
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        <patrol cur="3961" prev="3615" auto="1" />
      </item>
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      </item>
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      </item>
      <item logid="4473" ns="4" title="Trittau Wiki:Impressum" pageid="312" logpage="312" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Paap" timestamp="2022-09-27T11:42:48Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="3958" prev="3956" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="4472" ns="3" title="Benutzer Diskussion:HDS" pageid="1021" logpage="1021" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Paap" timestamp="2022-09-27T11:39:45Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="3957" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="4471" ns="4" title="Trittau Wiki:Impressum" pageid="312" logpage="312" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Michael Strunk" timestamp="2022-09-27T11:10:55Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="3956" prev="1482" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="4470" ns="2" title="Benutzer:HDS" pageid="0" logpage="0" userid="127" type="newusers" action="create" user="HDS" timestamp="2022-09-27T10:58:40Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="4469" ns="0" title="Europaplatz" pageid="254" logpage="254" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Paap" timestamp="2022-06-05T07:40:51Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="3955" prev="1451" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>