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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
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      </item>
      <item logid="14580" ns="0" title="Diver to Diver Thassos North East Aegean" pageid="9937" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sail-la-vie" timestamp="2015-11-30T12:41:48Z" comment="">
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      </item>
      <item logid="14579" ns="0" title="Export" pageid="11058" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sail-la-vie" timestamp="2015-11-17T17:12:50Z" comment="">
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      </item>
      <item logid="14577" ns="0" title="Export" pageid="11058" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sail-la-vie" timestamp="2015-11-17T17:10:30Z" comment="">
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      </item>
      <item logid="14576" ns="0" title="Help" pageid="11297" type="protect" action="protect" user="Sail-la-vie" timestamp="2015-05-05T09:53:22Z" comment="">
        <param>‎[edit=sysop] (indefinite)‎[move=sysop] (indefinite)</param>
        <param />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>