I don't think the complexity of the editing system has any meaningful impact on the quality of submissions. Most vandalism and content of poor quality that I'v

I don't think the complexity of the editing system has any meaningful impact on the quality of submissions. Most vandalism and content of poor quality that I've ever seen has simply been added to existing articles. Somebody does not need to be at all familiar with Wikipedia's editing system to insert a few sentences or paragraphs into an article that already exists. There are many people out there, experts in their field, with valuable knowledge to contribute that may have a difficult time (or don't have the time/motivation for) learning how to properly format an article using the old editing system. I think the barrier to entry should be as low as possible to enable people like this to contribute as well. I don't really see why knowledge of a cryptic and proprietary text editing format should be used as a filter for people attempting to contribute information from fields that have no relation to it.