[makomk]

From what I recall, their efforts were strongly opposed by the community in large part because they were imposed on it despite being spectacularly broken, difficult to use, and leaving damage behind that other editors had to clean up. (Also, women are not idiots and are in fact quite capable of comprehending things like wiki markup.)

[janardanyri]

Barriers to entry such as wiki markup are rarely about whether a group of people are theoretically capable of doing something. The larger problem is that an article about [x] will now only be started/improved by the cross-section of people who both care about [x] and are willing to spend time on the unrelated concept of wiki markup.