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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2016-06-27T18:25:58Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
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        <patrol cur="3019" prev="3005" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="930" pageid="0" ns="2" title="Benutzer:K.Heller" type="newusers" action="byemail" userid="10003" user="Karl Kirst" timestamp="2022-11-10T19:39:08Z" comment="Datensicherung" />
      <item logid="929" pageid="0" ns="2" title="Benutzer:ZUM-Team" type="newusers" action="create2" userid="10002" user="Karl Kirst" timestamp="2018-06-09T15:15:37Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="928" pageid="603" ns="4" title="Schüleraustausch Essen-Gliwice:Impressum" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="N.Anskeit" timestamp="2018-05-25T12:16:31Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="3016" prev="3015" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="927" pageid="603" ns="4" title="Schüleraustausch Essen-Gliwice:Impressum" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="N.Anskeit" timestamp="2018-05-25T12:16:08Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="3015" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="926" pageid="602" ns="4" title="Schüleraustausch Essen-Gliwice:Datenschutz" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Karl Kirst" timestamp="2018-05-24T21:45:47Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="3014" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="925" pageid="598" ns="6" title="Datei:Projektarbeit und Ergebnisse.pdf" type="upload" action="upload" user="SvenVo" timestamp="2017-07-06T07:50:03Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" />
      <item logid="924" pageid="596" ns="6" title="Datei:Fotostrecke Gedenkstätte.pdf" type="upload" action="upload" user="SvenVo" timestamp="2017-07-06T07:27:37Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" />
      <item logid="923" pageid="594" ns="6" title="Datei:Methode.pdf" type="upload" action="upload" user="SvenVo" timestamp="2017-07-06T06:56:20Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" />
      <item logid="922" pageid="593" ns="6" title="Datei:Leitfragen.pdf" type="upload" action="upload" user="SvenVo" timestamp="2017-07-06T06:56:18Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" />
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>