The news is you don't need the official (and frequently pirated) pak0.pk3 to play WQ3. Just make a link or a copy of your wq3_pak0.pk3 to where your quake engine expects the original pak0.pk3 and off you go.
I keep all of the quake files in my ~/.q3a directory, so the following is sufficient:
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ln -s ~/.q3a/westernq3/wq3_pak0.pk3 ~/.q3a/baseq3/pak0.pk3
I did not test this on windows or MacOS X, so please report succeses or failures here. Myself, I'm on quake3-1.34_rc3 at the moment with Gentoo Linux.
Now the last bit of pirated software is gone from my OS :-).