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Database Reports posts strings encoded as bytes
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We're seeing this bug for database reports on various wikis (see screenshot below):

Link (with error) in Korean wiki: https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/위키백과:데이터베이스_보고서/지난_달에_가장_많이_편집된_문서
Link (with error) in Vietnamese wiki: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:B%C3%A1o_c%C3%A1o_c%C6%A1_s%E1%BB%9F_d%E1%BB%AF_li%E1%BB%87u/B%C3%A0i_vi%E1%BA%BFt_%C4%91%C6%B0%E1%BB%A3c_s%E1%BB%ADa_nhi%E1%BB%81u_l%E1%BA%A7n_nh%E1%BA%A5t_trong_th%C3%A1ng_v%E1%BB%ABa_qua

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dbr_kowiki_bug.png (1×2 px, 310 KB)

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ifried created this task.Aug 19 2019, 5:33 PM
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ifried updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 19 2019, 5:35 PM
ifried renamed this task from DBR on kowiki misbehaving to DBR on various wikis misbehaving.Aug 19 2019, 5:39 PM
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ifried renamed this task from DBR on various wikis misbehaving to Issues with Database Reports on Various Wikis.Aug 19 2019, 9:35 PM
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MaxSem claimed this task.Aug 20 2019, 2:55 AM
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MaxSem moved this task from Ready to Needs Review/Feedback on the Community-Tech (Kanban (Q1 2019-20)) board.Aug 20 2019, 2:58 AM

Ready for review: https://github.com/wikimedia/database-reports/pull/31

I've used the approach from CommonsNotifier and forcefully converted all database rows returned from bytes to string. Tested on Toolforge in dry run mode, it fixes the issue.

MaxSem renamed this task from Issues with Database Reports on Various Wikis to Database Reports posts strings encoded as bytes.Aug 20 2019, 3:05 AM
MaxSem added a project: Tools.
MaxSem added a parent task: T219472: Port database reports to Python 3.
MaxSem closed this task as Resolved.Aug 20 2019, 10:27 PM
MaxSem moved this task from Needs Review/Feedback to Done on the Community-Tech (Kanban (Q1 2019-20)) board.

Fixed and the bot has been run on non-English wikis to clean up the affected pages.

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