VisualEditor/Portal/Why/zh

数值
上面的图表表示基于时间的新用户保留率及活跃编辑的数目. 如图所示，是让人失望的. 维基百科到了必须关注编者数的关键时刻. 我们迎来了很多新用户，同时也正失去协作项目的血液：贡献者.

这显然意味着我们许多需要进行的事务没人去做. 随着维护 Special:NewPages 和生者传记（BLP）人员的减少，积压的事务越来越多.

由于缺乏足够的人编写条目且进行检查和维护，所以特色和优良条目的提升进入停滞状态. 每个人在自己贡献的地方都因缺乏人手而无法把事情做完.

原因分析
我们遇到了问题，原因有许多. 一些人离开是由于他们不想贡献价值，这没问题，还有些人则是因为感到社群充满敌意或无法获取帮助.

但归根到底，许多人的离开是因为编辑太复杂了. 回顾 2001 年维基百科成立时，大量的站点都为用户的编辑准备各种形式的标记语言，我们也是其中之一. 当时编辑标记是是在互联网工作职员的基本技能，例如 BBCode、wiki 标记甚至是 HTML.

但现在是 2013 年，我们如果不是仍使用标记的主要站点，那么绝对是使用这么复杂标记的唯一站点.

脱离标记
在 2013 年，人们不会为了在网上写点东西而去学习标记语言. 他们到这儿编辑时感到很意外，其中绝大多数都不会对这样的体验感到兴奋. （我们在可视化编辑器开发前在用户测试中得到一些确认.

Many new users don't start off trying to make big changes; they start off trying to make small ones, and yet have to learn markup anyway just to be able to read the editing panel. They get intimidated, and they leave, as our user tests demonstrate.

This need for a better way to edit is something the community has recognized again and again, as early as 2004. We're building the VisualEditor in response; because people have asked for it, and more importantly because people need it.

Wikimarkup is already intimidating to newcomers, and the level of intimidation will only increase as other websites move forward. We're building it because if we don't, that graph is going to look a lot worse in five years.

We're not expecting everyone to use it (the source editor will still be around), and we're not expecting everyone to be convinced. But we're determined to do a good job and determined to demonstrate the impact this software can have.