(Which can be implemented on some other Wikipedias, too.)
Just to inform you that we (re-)staretd our work on that issue again. Any interested person can see progress of our work at http://conversion.vikimedija.org/ . In this moment we don't have informations in English, but we would have it soon.
We have two goals:
1. To finish SrConversion which Zhengzhu almost finished (for reading only). This is PHP-based code.
2. To make TCP server and change some parts of EditPage.php (for writing). We intend to make the server in Python (not in C).