I certainly don't mind deleting and rebuilding the pages rather than
hitting the reset button.  Can you give "NEverett (WMF)" the ability to
delete articles or send me a test user that can?

Nik


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Chris McMahon <[email protected]>wrote:

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>
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Nikolas Everett 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> So my search tests make sure they have a clean set of pages to run
>> against by deleting a few pages and rebuilding them.  They also delete and
>> create new pages to test that functionality.
>>
>> In beta, I don't have permission to perform these deletes.  Is that
>> something that someone on this list can fix?  Is it even a good idea for me
>> to run these against beta's enwiki?  In past lives I've run tests like this
>> against a system that is blow away and rebuilt empty every night.
>>
>
> I can give you whatever permissions you need to work in the wiki itself
> (or tell you about a test user that has them) but it might not be possible
> to "blow away and rebuild" data in the beta cluster the way you might
> suspect.
>
> -Chris
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