Does anyone else think the complexity of the markup is an explanation declining editorship?

Why not have a link to the new article wizard in the sidebar? There are already links for creating books and uploading files, why not have one for creating an article? It would say something like "create new article" or "start an article" and link to the article wizard.

That would be really interesting. I think the wizard needs a lot of refining but even just testing a link now could be interesting (We should be able to see page views to see how many people are looking at it).