It sounds like a necessary evil. Ubuntu people who cannot compile are way too big of a group to just eliminate. As long as they have the option (download source here, or download full game w/all dependencies here), I am sure most wont mind having all of the dependencies. The population would grow w...

You could use this little snippet. It reads the value from the TMW-site and removes the HTML tags so you can make it fit your site.

<?php
$status = file_get_contents('http://server.themanaworld.org/status.php');
echo strip_tags($status);
?>

Totally untested but it should work.