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Welcome to the home of the new Knot Atlas! This site aims to be a complete user-editable knot atlas, in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia wiki] spirit of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia]. This site supersedes [http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/ Dror Bar-Natan's] [http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/KAtlas/ Knot Atlas]. It is being developed primarily by [[User:Scott|Scott]] and [[User:Drorbn|Dror]], but any one can edit almost anything, anytime.
Welcome to the new home of the Knot Atlas! This site aims to be a complete user-editable knot atlas, in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia wiki] spirit of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia]. This site supersedes [http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/ Dror Bar-Natan's] [http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/KAtlas/ Knot Atlas]. It is being developed primarily by [[User:Scott|Scott]] and [[User:Drorbn|Dror]], but any one can edit almost anything, anytime.


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Revision as of 10:43, 25 August 2005

Welcome to the new home of the Knot Atlas! This site aims to be a complete user-editable knot atlas, in the wiki spirit of Wikipedia. This site supersedes Dror Bar-Natan's Knot Atlas. It is being developed primarily by Scott and Dror, but any one can edit almost anything, anytime.

Extra: Tube plots with TubePlot.

See also: Jeremy Green's Table of Virtual Knots, Chuck Livingston's amazing Table of Knot Invariants, Hermann Gruber's atlas of rational knots and Paul Zinn-Justin's alternating virtual link database.

 

"God created the knots, all else in topology is the work of mortals."

Leopold Kronecker (modified)

 

"Among Violet's many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots"

Lemony Snicket, A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

 

More Stuff

  • Scott's WikiLink` package provides a simple mediawiki interface, supporting accounts, in Mathematica, and works for MediaWiki 1.4beta5. (The bleeding edge version also supports file upload, and works with 1.4.7.)

todo list

  • something is wrong with the clock? have a look at recent changes.
  • search is broken

Pages with the 'todo' template

cosmetic

  • remove redundant items from the menu on the left
  • images galleries [1]
  • collapsible sections??
  • resizing knot images
  • notes about making transparent, font-sizes png in math mode. [2]

fundamental decisions

  • how to incorporate knot tables
  • how to store data for invariants?
    • this probably isn't a good idea, but someone has written an extension for incorporating XML data. [3]

writing templates

mathematica

  • write an `auto-splicer'? Dror is working on this!

notes

mysqldump -u <username> -p <nameofyourdatabase> > wikidb.sql
  • To create a backup of the web directory, login as wiki, and go to /www/html/w and type
tar cvzf web-backup-2005MoDa.tar.gz *