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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lecontinue="20200401054014|5413" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="5423" ns="0" title="Eventtype" pageid="7" logpage="7" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Draugath" timestamp="2024-03-19T01:12:02Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="14149" prev="14147" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="5422" ns="2" title="User:Luxen" pageid="0" logpage="0" type="rights" action="rights" user="Administrator" timestamp="2024-01-16T17:10:00Z" comment="Luxen does lots of stuff for VO and is very active">
        <rights new="sysop, bureaucrat" old="" />
      </item>
      <item logid="5421" ns="2" title="User:Draugath" pageid="739" logpage="739" type="rights" action="rights" user="Administrator" timestamp="2024-01-16T17:01:19Z" comment="Draugath is the king of Lua">
        <rights new="sysop, bureaucrat" old="" />
      </item>
      <item logid="5420" ns="2" title="User:TestLuaAccount" pageid="0" logpage="0" userid="33422" type="newusers" action="create" user="TestLuaAccount" timestamp="2024-01-09T05:03:34Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="5419" ns="2" title="User:Uldfert" pageid="0" logpage="0" userid="33421" type="newusers" action="create" user="Uldfert" timestamp="2023-11-15T00:08:17Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="5418" ns="2" title="User:Ravenwolf397" pageid="0" logpage="0" userid="33420" type="newusers" action="create" user="Ravenwolf397" timestamp="2023-04-15T18:55:14Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="5417" ns="2" title="User:Itani SIlencer" pageid="0" logpage="0" userid="33419" type="newusers" action="create" user="Itani SIlencer" timestamp="2022-06-30T23:25:48Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="5416" ns="2" title="User:Luxen" pageid="0" logpage="0" userid="33418" type="newusers" action="create" user="Luxen" timestamp="2022-06-30T23:23:05Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="5415" ns="2" title="User:Haxmeister" pageid="0" logpage="0" userid="33417" type="newusers" action="create" user="Haxmeister" timestamp="2022-06-30T23:20:39Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="5414" ns="2" title="User:Riorick17" pageid="0" logpage="0" userid="33416" type="newusers" action="create" user="Riorick17" timestamp="2020-06-20T19:54:16Z" comment="" />
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>