Denny Vrandečić, 04/04/2013 12:10:
This is in my opinion an upstream issue for MediaWiki proper. I do not think that templates and images from Commons are that different [...]
...and that's already been rejected (for now): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34778
One way would be to great HTML dumps of Wikipedia at regular intervals, as, e.g., the Internet Archive does it.
This requires dumpHTML to work again after 5+ years. :) http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Mediawiki_DumpHTML_extension_improvement would benefit from some help.
Nemo