How you can contribute
There are many possible ways you might want to contribute to the Knot Atlas. This page will tell you where to start!
Fixing mistakes
Editing the manual
See How to Edit this Manual...
Improving the formatting or layout of knot pages
Adding comments or references for the data
Adding more data for an existing invariant
Adding a new invariant
By hand
Using WikiSplice`
By uploading data
Adding a new knot table
Wow! You'll need a bit of everything above, and a little patience. Here are the major steps.
=Prepare and upload images
(Optional!) The images will look best if they are all of a uniform size [uniform size], and have a transparent background. There's no problem uploading images at a higher resolution than you'll need on either the knot table page, or the individual knot pages, because the Mediawiki software can automatically resize images on demand. You'll then need to name the images. A good way of doing this is to give each image the same name as its knot; for example the image for the torus knot T(5,3) is called T(5,3).jpg. Once the images are prepared and named, you can upload them to the wiki. There is a simple Mathematica notebook Media:UploadingImages.nb (File:UploadingImages.nb) which automates all of these tasks.
Create the knot table
Upload data
(Optional!)
Create a splice template for the knot pages
Run the splicer to create the knot pages
[uniform size] ^ That is, don't crop the knot images down to a minimal rectangle bounding the knot.
