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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lecontinue="20150501160858|798" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="808" ns="0" title="Настройка Munin" pageid="19" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2016-12-08T01:22:17Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="724" prev="723" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="807" ns="0" title="Настройка Munin" pageid="19" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2016-11-24T09:25:41Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="723" prev="554" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="806" ns="0" title="Datamining" pageid="17" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2016-06-05T15:42:11Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="722" prev="693" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="805" ns="0" title="Образовательные ресурсы" pageid="4" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2016-02-24T07:41:14Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="721" prev="714" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="804" ns="0" title="Data Sources" pageid="38" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2015-09-16T00:40:54Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="720" prev="719" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="803" ns="0" title="Data Sources" pageid="38" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2015-09-16T00:36:54Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="719" prev="713" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="802" ns="0" title="NFS" pageid="102" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2015-07-19T06:53:52Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="718" prev="717" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="801" ns="0" title="NFS" pageid="102" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2015-07-19T06:52:04Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="717" prev="716" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="800" ns="0" title="NFS" pageid="102" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2015-07-19T06:51:43Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="716" prev="0" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="799" ns="0" title="Обработка текста" pageid="30" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Chesser" timestamp="2015-07-12T13:27:05Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="715" prev="712" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>