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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2014-12-05T17:11:17Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="8797" ns="0" title="MetaModels Beispiel: FE-Template anpassen" pageid="1847" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Zonky" timestamp="2014-12-19T09:11:29Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8448" prev="8447" auto="1" />
      </item>
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        <patrol cur="8447" prev="8446" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="8795" ns="0" title="MetaModels Beispiel: FE-Template anpassen" pageid="1847" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Zonky" timestamp="2014-12-19T09:09:44Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8446" prev="8445" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="8794" ns="0" title="Template Variablen anzeigen" pageid="55" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Samson1964" timestamp="2014-12-19T07:54:05Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8444" prev="8443" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="8793" ns="0" title="Template Variablen anzeigen" pageid="55" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Samson1964" timestamp="2014-12-19T07:52:52Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8443" prev="5032" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="8792" ns="2" title="Benutzer:Hinzke" pageid="0" type="newusers" action="byemail" userid="1403" user="Lucina" timestamp="2014-12-17T22:18:21Z" comment="userrequest" />
      <item logid="8791" ns="0" title="Transifex mit Contao Toolbox" pageid="1808" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="BugBuster" timestamp="2014-12-17T01:10:43Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8442" prev="8441" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="8790" ns="0" title="Transifex mit Contao Toolbox" pageid="1808" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="BugBuster" timestamp="2014-12-17T01:09:31Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8441" prev="8219" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="8789" ns="0" title="Cron" pageid="1582" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="BugBuster" timestamp="2014-12-14T23:17:25Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8440" prev="7438" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="8788" ns="0" title="Hauptseite" pageid="1" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Lucina" timestamp="2014-12-09T21:55:55Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8439" prev="8075" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>