Discussions

There are updates coming through the pipe for the utility rate form.  When these updates are deployed to production, then will allow ISU and anyone entering utility rates the ability to define and access richer data.

Of the 25K+ utility rates currently on OpenEI, there were several that had wiki comments.  Our goal is to bring discussions around content and technologies into the community section, thus we have shut down discussions on the wiki (see more here). For reference, here are the five comments added to utility rate discussion pages.  If you think it'd be useful to have an easy way to comment and show comments on a utility rate page, please let me know on this discussion.

OpenEI users can upload images to the wiki by typing a new file name http://en.openei.org/wiki/File:My_new_file.jpg

However, due to a caching timing issue, right after upload, the 120px-wide thumbnail has not yet been created by the time the fetier cache goes after it.  Thus, the thumbnail appears broken.

Is anyone up for debugging?

For users uploading images, this can be fixed by forcing a reload of the page:

We have a beta version of two user manuals ready and we were wondering if it might be appropriate to host them on the NREL OpenEI site.  The first user manual is for the novice user of the database.  It explains terminology related to electricity rates and rate structures.  This is focused on a broad audience.  We thought it might go here: http://en.openei.org/services/ but if you have a better place, just let me know.