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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
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    <logevents lestart="2014-07-01T20:31:37Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
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      </item>
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        <patrol cur="287" prev="284" auto="1" />
      </item>
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        <patrol cur="286" prev="277" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="283" ns="0" title="Virtual Global Network - Réseau Mondial Virtuel" pageid="80" type="move" action="move" user="Sysop" timestamp="2016-01-07T06:47:14Z" comment="">
        <move new_ns="0" new_title="Virtual Glocal Network - Réseau Glocal Virtuel" />
      </item>
      <item logid="282" ns="0" title="Multilinguistics - multilinguistique" pageid="7" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sysop" timestamp="2015-08-12T16:13:46Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="283" prev="282" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="281" ns="0" title="Multilinguistics - multilinguistique" pageid="7" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sysop" timestamp="2015-08-12T16:10:44Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="282" prev="11" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="280" ns="0" title="Unification" pageid="61" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sysop" timestamp="2015-02-09T16:15:03Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="281" prev="217" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="279" ns="0" title="Draft - Whatsaname" pageid="79" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sysop" timestamp="2014-10-06T12:42:05Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="280" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="278" ns="0" title="IRTF" pageid="78" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sysop" timestamp="2014-10-06T12:41:55Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="279" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="277" ns="0" title="Standardization - standardisation" pageid="14" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Sysop" timestamp="2014-10-06T12:41:28Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="278" prev="161" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>