shavian.org.uk: more braindump

I have redesigned the front page a little.

I have released the lessons and the software which creates their web pages under a Creative Commons licence.  You can get your own copy using:

git clone http://shavian.org.uk/learn/.git

Also, I want to bring the Shavian Wiki back.  This needs some thought.  The original purpose of the wiki was threefold:

1. For hosting useful pages about Shavian.  But shavian.org.uk can do that now.
2. For automatic translation of documents.  But that's computationally expensive, and we now have two other ways of doing this: in one SQL join for long documents (say, if we wanted to put up content from Wikibooks), and generated static content (how most of the current pages are made).
3. For hosting a mapping of conventional to Shavian spellings, since there are no adequate ways of doing this using existing databases.

Number three is the only function which needs to continue.  However, it's not necessarily necessary that it should happen using a wiki, and certainly not necessary that it should be MediaWiki, which is large, complicated, and written in PHP.  I could

• write my own front end to let people edit the database,
• use a different and perhaps simpler wiki system
• stick with the familiar and use MediaWiki.

There's also no particular reason, if we do use MediaWiki, that it has to run on the same server as the static-HTML-and-Python-CGI remainder of the site.

Update: I did indeed bring the old version back.  The extensions are turned off, so it doesn't do transliterating, but it's enough to let people continue updating the lexicon.  It also needs re-skinning rather a lot.