(Nick Reinking nick@twoevils.org):
Fair enough, was just wondering. :) Still, I think it would still be a good idea for us to use them as a read-only mirror for when the database is down (for server maintence, database maintenence, etc.)
I agree that read-only mirrors are probably a good idea in our future plans. It would require some software: namely, something that ran maybe once or twice a day and generated a set of static HTML pages from the "cur" table. This could be done incrementally based on timestamps, so it wouldn't be such a burden). Things like edit links would point to the live Wikipedia or to an intermediate page that explained what was going on and that then pointed to the live site. We could then have other sites rsync those static pages. Ideally, the search links would point to a search function on the other site as well, built by indexing the static pages rather than going to the live database.