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!

Editing the manual

See How to Edit this Manual...

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 (That is, don't crop the knot images down to a minimal rectangle bounding the knot.), 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

Have a look at the source of Rolfsen Knot Table, or anything in Category:Knot Table for an idea of how to do this. It'd be nice if you added a link to [[Category:Knot Table]] somewhere. There's a simple mathematica notebook, Media:GeneratingKnotTables.nb ([[Image:GeneratingKnotTables.nb|file description), for generating the table entries. (Make sure you read the file description; this notebook has some dependencies!)

Upload data

(Optional!)