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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2019-11-18T07:57:41Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
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      </item>
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        <patrol cur="8850" prev="8845" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="9170" ns="0" title="Cron-Bundle" pageid="1893" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="BugBuster" timestamp="2020-08-31T20:42:55Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8849" prev="8848" auto="1" />
      </item>
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        <patrol cur="8848" prev="8847" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="9168" ns="0" title="Cron-Bundle" pageid="1893" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="BugBuster" timestamp="2020-08-31T20:42:11Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8847" prev="8846" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="9167" ns="0" title="Cron-Bundle" pageid="1893" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="BugBuster" timestamp="2020-08-31T20:41:37Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8846" prev="8827" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="9166" ns="0" title="Stylesheet für Backend-Theme ergänzen" pageid="1215" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Magicsepp" timestamp="2020-08-23T11:50:25Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8845" prev="8712" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="9165" ns="0" title="PiwikCharts im Backend" pageid="1296" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="MaTh" timestamp="2020-08-04T18:22:24Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8844" prev="8256" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="9164" ns="0" title="GetTemplateGroup" pageid="481" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Samson1964" timestamp="2020-06-11T10:06:53Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8843" prev="4012" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="9163" ns="0" title="Dlstats" pageid="1084" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="BugBuster" timestamp="2020-03-28T21:24:11Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="8842" prev="8693" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>