To Do

• Update this To Do list.

• Set up a backup routine.
  • Make sure we're backing up all the right things. In particular, httpd.conf should probably be backed up.
• Systematic updates of the executable programs (KnotTheory`, WikiLink.m, splicers). See Category:Software.

Knot Atlas issues

• Link to us from relevant pages on wikipedia and elsewhere.
• Add "comment" hooks near each of the sections on the knot pages.
  • Eliminate the need for "&action=purge" after editing a comments section.
• Learn some MySQL and figure how to do "bulk additions from a file" to the database. This is a 'Dror and Scott only' technique, because it requires direct database access, and in most cases we'd be better off thinking in terms of uploading via WikiLink; either command line java, or a mathematica notebook. But direct SQL may be the only way to go for loading data for, say, all 16 crossing knots.
• The right floating tables of contents in the manual don't layout properly in safari. I don't have access to safari, so can't do any testing. --Scott 05:08, 25 Sep 2005 (EDT)
• The "Quantum Invariants" pages have no link back to the "parent" knot page". What's worse, they are not generated in a way that allows to add such "link back" in an easy way! See e.e. 3_1_Quantum_Invariants.

Pages to write

1. Further edit How you can contribute.
2. Finish Extending/Modifying KnotTheory`.
3. Prepare List of Modules in KnotTheory`.
4. Document "The A2 invariant", "The G2 invariant" and "other quantum invariants".

More complicated projects

1. Identify torus knots.
   1. should we have an 'identify this knot' function in KnotTheory`? How to implement it?
2. Clarify orientation issues, especially for links.
3. Extend tables beyond 11 crossings.
4. work out a sensible way to show quantum knot invariants.
5. Add pages on rational knots and other classes of "special" knots.
6. Add a page for "sporadic" special knots.

Data to include

1. Add Tristram-Levine signatures.
2. Chiral? Invertible?
3. Indicate which knots are the components of given links.
4. Add something about hyperbolic invariants.
5. "Similar Links" using The Multivariable Alexander Polynomial; add the The Multivariable Alexander Polynomial to the simulated Mathematica sessions.

Things to calculate

1. Compute HOMFLYPT for torus knots.
2. compute Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants for everything in sight.

KnotTheory`

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`.

katlas software

• Find out if it's possible to eliminate the need for &action=purge when transcluded pages change?
• Tell people about the modifications to ImagePage.php
• Fix/improve the "disappearing transclusion" tag <ifpageexists>.
• Replace the "bracket" splicing model by a "templated" one.

texvc

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]

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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