Bharatpedia:VisualEditor/Why: Difference between revisions

We've got a problem, and there is a lot of speculation as to why. Some people leave because they don't want to contribute productively, which is fine. Others do so because they find the community too hostile,<ref name="HalfakerGeiger2012">{{cite journal|last1=Halfaker|first1=A.|last2=Geiger|first2=R. S.|last3=Morgan|first3=J. T.|last4=Riedl|first4=J.|title=The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Bharatpedia's Reaction to Popularity Is Causing Its Decline|journal=American Behavioral Scientist|year=2012|issn=0002-7642|doi=10.1177/0002764212469365|volume=57|issue=5|page=664}}</ref> or because they can't work out [[BP:Help|where to find help]]. Some people leave because editing is just too complex. Back in 2001, when Wikipedia was founded, a lot of big sites expected users to write in markup of various forms, and we were like them. Writing markup was a common skill in people who worked on the Internet, whether that was [[w:BBCode|BBCode]], wikimarkup or even HTML. The problem is that, in 2013, we were the only major site still using markup of this complexity.