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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lecontinue="20141028132020|1665" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="1675" ns="0" title="McFadyen Honeycomb Decapper" pageid="1687" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Brian" timestamp="2021-01-14T01:49:50Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="2730" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1674" ns="0" title="McFadyen, John William - I11" pageid="1430" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Brian" timestamp="2021-01-14T01:47:17Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="2729" prev="2728" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1673" ns="0" title="McFadyen, John William - I11" pageid="1430" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Brian" timestamp="2021-01-14T01:46:14Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="2728" prev="2727" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1672" ns="0" title="McFadyen, John William - I11" pageid="1430" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Brian" timestamp="2021-01-14T01:44:38Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="2727" prev="2724" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1671" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Session fail preview html" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-10-28T13:20:20Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1670" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Mainsite-url" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-10-28T13:20:20Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1669" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Mainsite" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-10-28T13:20:20Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1668" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yourvariant" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-10-28T13:20:20Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1667" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yourtext" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-10-28T13:20:20Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1666" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yourrealname" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-10-28T13:20:20Z" comment="No longer required" />
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>