[Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

[Platonides]

Mohamed Magdy wrote:
> * I think it would be doable to make a tab that Egyptianizes (or any other
> dialect) the Arabic article, that is, if we have some sort of conversion
> memory, that is if the dialect is stable (or standard), the dialect differs
> from a place to another, from a muhafazah to another (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhafazah). if anyone knows the technical
> method we could make a trial instead of the great mess of dialect
> Wikipedias. I'm not too sure about this compromise yet.

If there're clear (algoritmic) rules for that, it can be done.
See at http://zh.wikipedia.org/ how it can be viewed on seven! different
variants.