Modifying Knot Pages
Knot pages on The Knot Atlas can be modified in three ways:
- Beginner. Only the knot page being viewed is modified, and only in certain specific places.
- Intermediate. These are modifications that effect the way all knot pages (or sometimes just all knot pages of a given class) are displayed, but no new "per knot" data is introduced.
- Expert. Introduces new invariants, pictures or data on all knot pages.
Beginner Mode Editing: Using Existing Hooks
On every knot page there are a number of "named editing hooks"; links bearing names such as Edit 5_1 Further Notes and Views, which contain the explicit name of the knot being studied. Clicking on a named editing hook allows you to edit (wiki-style) the section that follows it on the knot page. Just for fun, put your name in the obvious place (down at the bottom) using Edit 5_1 Further Notes and Views and see how it affects the knot page 5_1.
Intermediate Mode Editing: Using Existing Hooks
In MediaWiki talk, each knot page conatains just one element: a Template call with many parameters (the values of the various "invariants" of that knot, including names of image files, etc.). That templates renders a knot page with the given values for its invariants. So the appearance of knot pages, including the addition/modification/removal of the named editing hooks of the beginners section, can be controled by modifying this "master" template.At the moment there are four knot tables on the Knot Atlas, and hence four master templates. These are: Template:Rolfsen Knot Page, Template:Hoste-Thistlethwaite Knot Page, Template:Link Page and Template:Torus Knot Page.
