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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2015-09-04T09:32:37Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="713" ns="3" title="Benutzer Diskussion:Lippens die Ente" pageid="264" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chrisfirefox" timestamp="2016-06-12T13:26:50Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1113" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="712" ns="2" title="Benutzer:Lippens die Ente" pageid="263" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chrisfirefox" timestamp="2016-06-12T13:26:50Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1112" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="711" ns="2" title="Benutzer:Lippens die Ente" pageid="263" type="newusers" action="create2" userid="21" user="Chrisfirefox" timestamp="2016-06-12T13:26:50Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="710" ns="3" title="Benutzer Diskussion:Yuan DeLazar" pageid="262" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chrisfirefox" timestamp="2016-06-12T13:24:14Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1111" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="709" ns="2" title="Benutzer:Yuan DeLazar" pageid="261" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chrisfirefox" timestamp="2016-06-12T13:24:14Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1110" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="708" ns="2" title="Benutzer:Yuan DeLazar" pageid="261" type="newusers" action="create2" userid="20" user="Chrisfirefox" timestamp="2016-06-12T13:24:14Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="707" ns="0" title="Hauptseite" pageid="1" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chrisfirefox" timestamp="2016-01-11T15:21:10Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1102" prev="1101" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="706" ns="0" title="Hauptseite" pageid="1" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chrisfirefox" timestamp="2016-01-11T15:20:49Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1101" prev="748" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="705" ns="0" title="Übersicht verwendeter Modding-IDs" pageid="258" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Lunatic" timestamp="2015-10-06T18:19:10Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1072" prev="1071" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="704" ns="0" title="Übersicht verwendeter Modding-IDs" pageid="258" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Lunatic" timestamp="2015-10-06T18:19:02Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1071" prev="1070" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>