To Do

Very Soon

1. Set up a backup routine.
   1. Make sure we're backing up all the right things. In particular, httpd.conf should probably be backed up.
2. Finish Extending/Modifying KnotTheory`.
3. Prepare List of Modules in KnotTheory`.
4. Fix/improve the "disappearing transclusion" tag <ifpageexists>.
5. Systematic updates of the executable programs (KnotTheory`, WikiLink.m, splicers). See Category:Software. Set up a CVS? Subversion? Sourceforge?
6. Further edit How you can contribute.
7. Add "comment" hooks near each of the sections on the knot pages.
8. Write Knot Atlas:About and Knot Atlas:General disclaimer.
9. Link to us from relevant pages on wikipedia and elsewhere.
10. Eliminate the need for "&action=purge" after editing a comments section.
11. "Similar Links" using The Multivariable Alexander Polynomial; add the The Multivariable Alexander Polynomial to the simulated Mathematica sessions.

At Leisure

1. Update this To Do list.

wiki interface issues

1. can texvc use dvi2bitmap instead of convert? might be much faster? [1]
   1. alternatively see [2]
   2. what about a cron job to randomly delete entries from mw_math, and the corresponding png's?
2. Apply patches to texvc, for making transparent, font-sizes png in math mode. [3]

Knot Atlas issues

1. Identify torus knots.
2. Clarify orientation issues, especially for links.
3. Add Tristram-Levine signatures.
4. Chiral? Invertible?
5. Extend beyond 11 crossings.
6. Indicate which knots are the components of given links.
7. work out a sensible way to show quantum knot invariants.
8. Add pages on rational knots and other classes of "special" knots.
9. Add a page for "sporadic" special knots.
10. Add something about hyperbolic invariants.

things to calculate

1. Compute HOMFLYPT for torus knots.

KnotTheory` programming issues

1. Unite DrawPD and BraidPlot under Draw.
2. Remove Simplify from ColouredJones.
3. Custom knot drawings! Output in ps, TeX, etc.
4. Browsable source code for KnotTheory`.

Other things

1. Add the Universal Vassiliev Invariant.
2. Something about knot colouring.
3. Add Ozvath-Szabo stuff.
4. Make all sources public.
5. Add Dowker codes for links.

Papers to consider extracting data from

1. Extract data from Stanford's paper [4].
2. Extract data from Livingston's paper [5].
3. Extract data from Rasmussen's paper, arXiv:math.GT/0402131.
4. Extract data from Hikami's paper, arXiv:math.GT/0403224.
5. Extract data from Stoimenow's paper, arXiv:math.GT/0405076.
6. Extract data from De Wit and Links, arXiv:math.GT/0501224, and from De Wit, Ishii and Links, arXiv:math.GT/0405403.
7. Extract data from Cha-Livingston's paper, arXiv:math.GT/0503125.
8. Extract data from Hirasawa-Teragaito's paper, arXiv:math.GT/0504446.
9. Extract data from Cimasoni-Florens' paper, arXiv:math.GT/0505185.
10. Extract data from Hoste-Shanahan's paper, arXiv:math.GT/0505442.
11. Extract data from Ashton-Cantarella-Piatek-Rawdon's paper, arXiv:math.DG/0508248.
12. Extract A-polynomial data from Cooper-Culler-Gillet-Long-Shalen.

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