This is a test of the syntax highlighting MediaWiki parser for CodeMirror.
<!-- MediaWiki syntax coloring parser test --> The wikitext used to edit [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] pages is hard for beginners to learn. Often, the internal (source) layout of a page so cluttered it's hard to see what's going on with a single glance. '''''Syntax highlighting''''' can help (see also the picture [[File:Java keywords highlighted.png]]). This basic MediaWiki ''parser'' colors MW syntax (aka [[w:Wikitext|"wikitext"]]), highlighting certain parts of the code for easier readability. But it can do more: The parser also visually indicates broken code, such as this [[improperly closed link]. It also makes the following example table, taken from [[mw:Help:Tables]], stand out from the rest of the code, making it easier to see: {| | Orange || Apple || more |- | Bread || Pie || more |- | Butter || Ice cream || and more |} Syntax highlighting is the next best thing to [[w:WYSIWIG|WYSIWIG]]!