Nikola Smolenski wrote:
You remember correctly :) Basically, conversion from Cyrillc to Latin alphabet is possible and easy to do; but conversion from Latin to Cyrillic is impossible task. It would thus be possible to create a static Wikipedia mirror in Latin alphabet, if there would be any need for it; but making it editable and importing results back into Cyrillic would not work and only create problems.
If converting Cyrillic -> Latin is good enough, and the primary editing environment is going to be Cyrillic, then adapting zhengzhu's Chinese conversion support probably will work okay.
At http://zh.wikipedia.org/ you'll notice three additional tabs at the right-hand of the top tab bar: "不转换" for unconverted display, "简体" for simplified conversion, and "繁体" for traditional conversion. These conversions don't change the source text or alter editing; it's for rendered page display and user interface only.
We could have the 'Cyrillic' display just pass through the source unaltered, and the 'Latin' display go ahead and apply the conversions in one direction for display only.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)