Display fortune cookie messages

[goodmami]

There was a request to re-add fortune cookie messages, at least to the front page. There are two issues with the way things are currently set up:

1. The FortuneCookies are in a wiki, so we'd need a GitHub action triggered by wiki (gollum) events that captures edits to that page and extracts the fortunes out.
2. The main page is rendered from index.md, and the rendering system strips out unsafe HTML like <script> and <link> tags, which makes it difficult to add javascript code to display the fortune.

I propose the following:

1. Move the content of the FortuneCookies wiki to a .js file, e.g.:

   var fortunes = [
     'Recursive, adj: See "recursive"',
     ...
   ];

2. Change index.md to index.html to avoid rendering with Gollum
3. Add code to index.html that loads the fortunes.js (or whatever it's called) and displays a random one

[arademaker]

There was a request to re-add fortune cookie messages, at least to the front page.

How was that? Where? The request was made where by whom?

[goodmami]

@arademaker I don't recall where, perhaps during the infrastructure session or the social afterward. It was actually a self-request, but I think Emily agreed.

[fcbond]

I agree that having the fortune cookies is a fun touch that shows people the spirit of DELPH-IN, ...

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[olzama]

I'm sorry, what are fortune cookies? :) In our context, that is (I know of the restaurant context...)

[goodmami]

https://github.com/delph-in/docs/wiki/FortuneCookies

In the old wiki, a random one would be displayed when you view a page. We used to add a few new ones roughly every summit.

[glenn-slayden]

@fcbond: I agree that having the fortune cookies is a fun touch that shows people the spirit of DELPH-IN...

We are so fun... and maybe eclectic?