Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/FAQ misses the point: "Should we worry about a potential large increase in vandalism?"/reply

This is an important aspect of VE, and something the VE team have been aware of since the software was in its infancy. It is a very hard thing to predict. But I'd like to point out that the ability (or inclination) to master markup is a purely technical skill; it doesn't correlate with the complex intellectual skills needed to master a concept like NPOV. For instance, we currently have "POV pushers" who are great at markup. Wikitext doesn't filter for these more cerebral abilities, in my experience. Past surveys have indicated that wikitext does filter people who want to contribute knowledge, but who won't justify learning a site-specific markup language in order to participate.