Help:Editing

Before editing anything you are strongly advised to create an account and log in. Everything remains available and equaly editable even if you don't log in, but you are a better citizen if you "sign your work". Others will trust it more, and in case of problems, it will be easier to reach you.

See also: Usage Help.

Local Editing Help

• Learn about how you can contribute.
• For help editing manual pages, see How to Edit this Manual....
• For help editing knot pages, see Modifying Knot Pages.
• Some Local Clip Art.
• Many of the important pages have been categorised, and you can browse these categories by starting at Category:Categories.

External Editing Help

• Pages on The Knot Atlas are can and are edited in a similar way to pages on Wikipedia. For details, see Wikipedia:How to edit a page and WikiMedia:Help:Editing.

Sysadmin Help

• If you need to move this wiki to another server, you'll probably appreciate the katlas installation notes.
• Scott wrote some instructions on Creating a katlas mirror on a windows machine, in preparation for the 2005 Knots in Washington conference.
• We should automate backup tasks, for now use these backup commands.