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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lecontinue="20221218215006|10447" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
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      </item>
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        <patrol cur="4331" prev="3721" auto="1" />
      </item>
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      <item logid="10454" ns="0" title="Special characters" pageid="2349" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Kayak" timestamp="2023-07-06T04:07:55Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="4329" prev="4267" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="10453" ns="0" title="Symbol Chat Object" pageid="2360" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Kayak" timestamp="2023-03-21T17:30:06Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="4326" prev="4040" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="10452" ns="0" title="Get vector from path" pageid="2431" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Kayak" timestamp="2023-03-20T03:23:12Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="4325" prev="4324" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="10451" ns="0" title="Get vector from path" pageid="2431" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Kayak" timestamp="2023-03-20T03:23:02Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="4324" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="10450" ns="2" title="User:Miyonura" pageid="0" type="rights" action="rights" user="Kayak" timestamp="2023-02-25T21:03:04Z" comment="Editing permissions">
        <rights new="author" old="" />
      </item>
      <item logid="10449" ns="0" title="Npc crp V3" pageid="2392" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Kayak" timestamp="2023-02-20T00:13:12Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="4321" prev="4148" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="10448" ns="2" title="User:Miyonura" pageid="0" userid="20407" type="newusers" action="create" user="Miyonura" timestamp="2023-02-11T19:10:28Z" comment="" />
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>