2009/9/24 Tisza Gergő gtisza@gmail.com:
It is easy enough to edit for power users, who make the large majority of edits; and way more comfortable than WYSIWYG.
Much as vim is more powerful than Notepad.
However, impenetrable wikitext is one of *the* greatest barriers to new users on Wikimedia projects. And this impenetrability is not, in any way whatsoever or by any twists of logic, a feature.
- d.