Asaf, wctaiwan: I totally understand the social and cultural implications -- that is indeed one of the key things I wish to discuss during this session so that people understand that language variants are not *just* a technical issue.
For example, I believe that Urdu and Hindi are also amendable to LanguageConverter, but the political issues in that case make it highly unlikely that the two languages would wish to share a wiki.
I think Asaf's question was well-posed: let's see what the technical issues are, so that the community can have an informed discussion. --scott