<div dir="ltr">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?<br>
<br>Nik<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Chris McMahon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cmcmahon@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">cmcmahon@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Nikolas Everett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neverett@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">neverett@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br>
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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.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Chris </div></font></span></div><br></div></div>
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