It might really make people think if they can click Download Wikipedia! :o) What would you think of adding this to the sidebar?
That would be cool. It should direct to a server where you could download either the raw SQL data for people who want to do fancy things, or a ready-to-browse static HTML tree (with edit, special and history links pointing to wikipedia.com).
Jimbo, could you start your cron script again to make regular database dumps? We could then easily write a script which produces such a static HTML tree.
mysqldump --user="XXX" --password="XXX" --opt wiki cur old linked unlinked | gzip -9 > wikipedia_dump_`date +%Y%m%d`.sql.gz
(if the mysql database is called wiki)
Axel