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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2018-11-03T17:16:09Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="1122" pageid="0" ns="2" title="Benutzer:BeigelFl" type="newusers" action="create" userid="10029" user="BeigelFl" timestamp="2020-09-08T10:37:42Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="1121" pageid="0" ns="2" title="Benutzer:WellpottK" type="newusers" action="create" userid="10028" user="WellpottK" timestamp="2019-10-20T07:37:56Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="1120" pageid="0" ns="2" title="Benutzer:F.Bittermann󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡" type="newusers" action="create" userid="10027" user="F.Bittermann󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡" timestamp="2018-12-01T12:55:15Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="1119" pageid="540" ns="6" title="Datei:Rotationskörper von der y-Achse zu der x-Achse.png" type="upload" action="upload" user="Simon Cronauer" timestamp="2018-12-01T12:26:22Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" />
      <item logid="1118" pageid="539" ns="6" title="Datei:Rotationskörper der Funktion f(x) = 1.png" type="upload" action="upload" user="Simon Cronauer" timestamp="2018-12-01T11:58:15Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" />
      <item logid="1117" pageid="0" ns="2" title="Benutzer:󠀡󠀡Simon Cronauer󠀡󠀡" type="newusers" action="create" userid="10026" user="󠀡󠀡Simon Cronauer󠀡󠀡" timestamp="2018-11-13T19:41:24Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="1116" pageid="537" ns="6" title="Datei:HKIWS.png" type="upload" action="upload" user="Simon Cronauer" timestamp="2018-11-05T19:03:31Z" comment="User created page with UploadWizard" />
      <item logid="1115" pageid="517" ns="0" title="Exponentielles Wachstum" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="F.Bittermann" timestamp="2018-11-03T18:44:35Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1845" prev="1824" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1114" pageid="489" ns="0" title="Lineares Wachstum" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="F.Bittermann" timestamp="2018-11-03T18:29:02Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1844" prev="1843" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="1113" pageid="489" ns="0" title="Lineares Wachstum" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="F.Bittermann" timestamp="2018-11-03T18:27:14Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="1843" prev="1823" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>