A replacement for the wikit.tkd generation provided previously at http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit.gz will be needed.

One thing that could be done to relieve the current web server of having to serve the multi-million byte gzipped file of pages is to create the .gz file once a day (is there still a point in the day where changes to pages get placed into cvs/svn/some source code management system? If so, then after that step, perhaps?). Then, push that .gz file out to google.com's file area, sf.net, or some other web site which offers more bandwidth. That way people can fetch a copy without an impact on the wiki's server.

One of the ways that lvirden uses the .gz file is for wikignoming. I can run spell checkers on the pages, I can grep against the entire set of pages for combinations that are difficult to search for , and even better , I can run scripts looking for absence of things (like pages without categories, or pages that are empty, etc.).

Other people have been known to create indexed PDFs of the wiki, or create personal wikis containing "the best of".