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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.
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.

As with all new projects, the most important part of the Knot Atlas is the [[To Do]] list.


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Revision as of 07:14, 26 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.

As with all new projects, the most important part of the Knot Atlas is the To Do list.

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 *