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    <logevents>
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      <item logid="1844" pageid="236" ns="2" title="Benutzer:Christian" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Christian" timestamp="2016-06-20T12:23:24Z" comment="">
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      </item>
      <item logid="1843" pageid="17" ns="0" title="Willkommen im Iriswiki" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Christian" timestamp="2016-06-20T12:05:16Z" comment="">
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      </item>
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</api>