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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
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    <logevents lestart="2014-04-03T21:14:58Z" />
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  <query>
    <logevents>
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      <item logid="1849" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yourtext" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-04-03T21:14:59Z" comment="No longer required" />
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      <item logid="1847" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yourpasswordagain" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-04-03T21:14:59Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1846" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yourpassword" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-04-03T21:14:59Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1845" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yournick" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-04-03T21:14:59Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1844" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yourname" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-04-03T21:14:58Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1843" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Yourlanguage" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-04-03T21:14:58Z" comment="No longer required" />
      <item logid="1842" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Youremail" pageid="0" type="delete" action="delete" user="MediaWiki default" anon="" timestamp="2014-04-03T21:14:58Z" comment="No longer required" />
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>