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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <logevents lestart="2019-08-14T23:42:53Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <logevents>
      <item logid="175" pageid="0" ns="2" title="User:Awise" type="rights" action="rights" user="Rinocenc" timestamp="2025-09-03T16:17:41Z" comment="This group is required for Alicia to edit pages">
        <rights new="lockss" old="" />
      </item>
      <item logid="174" pageid="0" ns="2" title="User:Rinocenc" type="rights" action="rights" user="Daniel" timestamp="2025-08-22T14:09:03Z" comment="">
        <rights new="lockss, sysop, bureaucrat" old="lockss, sysop" />
      </item>
      <item logid="173" pageid="0" ns="2" title="User:Awise" type="newusers" action="create2" userid="17" user="Rinocenc" timestamp="2025-08-22T06:13:31Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="172" pageid="0" ns="2" title="User:Rinocenc" type="rights" action="rights" user="Daniel" timestamp="2025-08-19T22:03:56Z" comment="">
        <rights new="sysop, lockss" old="" />
      </item>
      <item logid="171" pageid="0" ns="2" title="User:Rinocenc" type="newusers" action="byemail" userid="16" user="Daniel" timestamp="2025-08-19T22:01:23Z" comment="" />
      <item logid="170" pageid="116" ns="6" title="File:LOCKSSOrgChart.png" type="upload" action="overwrite" user="Ntay" timestamp="2019-08-15T00:52:39Z" comment="LOCKSS organizational chart, as of October 2017" />
      <item logid="169" pageid="139" ns="0" title="CLOCKSS: Extracting Triggered Content" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Ntay" timestamp="2019-08-15T00:47:27Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="339" prev="304" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="168" pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Ntay" timestamp="2019-08-15T00:39:14Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="338" prev="311" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="167" pageid="147" ns="0" title="LOCKSS: Software Development Process" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Ntay" timestamp="2019-08-15T00:22:09Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="337" prev="289" auto="1" />
      </item>
      <item logid="166" pageid="130" ns="0" title="LOCKSS: Property Server Operations" type="patrol" action="patrol" user="Ntay" timestamp="2019-08-14T23:44:25Z" comment="">
        <patrol cur="336" prev="277" auto="1" />
      </item>
    </logevents>
  </query>
</api>