There will be some site upgrades during the wee hours* tomorrow, between 10am and 2pm GMT. There may be outages and strange behavior on the blog and wiki. The forum will be unaffected.
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Over the last few weeks we moved most project-related stuff to the new documentation wiki. This week it became official: we pointed all the project links at the top of the blog to the new wiki pages.
Here’s some highlights:
There’s a freshly updated Bus Pirate menu command and syntax guide on the documentation wiki. This guide consolidates a ton of notes and caveats that were previously spread around tons of smaller posts. It is updated to the firmware v5.2 release candidate.
The main Bus Pirate wiki page has also been updated. A lot of cruft as been consolidated into guides, and the organization has been improved. There’s also a new guide to the v5+ BASIC scripting features.
Over the next few days we’ll update the user terminal mode protocol guides too.
Thanks to everyone who is helping with the wiki.
A new documentation wiki has replaced the old project manual pages. A bunch of stuff has already been moved and formatted for the wiki.
The wiki is open for public editing. We could use your help moving and updating guides, and adding important details from the blog comments. If you move something from the blog to the wiki please let us know, we’ll add a link to the wiki page from the old post.
We added a few enhancements to make the migration faster and the wiki easier to use.
- Wiked is a wiki toolbar that includes a HTML->wiki converter. It converts old blog pages into wiki markup with one click. It even does tables really nicely. It should be available to you via a pencil icon next to logout at the top of a wiki page, but it only works in Firefox and few other browsers.
- MediaWiki doesn’t format single spaced terminal output properly, like output from the Bus Pirate. Use the <bp>, <buspirate>, <nl2br>, or <terminal> tags to preserve the formatting. More about our custom nl2br extension.
- SyntaxHighlight will show pretty code for most languages.
If you’re a freelance web designer and have experience with wiki themes, please contact us, we’d like to hire you.
Tags: documentation, manual, wiki
