I've been asking Goodle and Stackoverflow variation of this query:
Syntax highlighting of mediawiki syntax
almost without exception I'm getting hits referring me to the Mediawiki Extension:SyntaxHighlight page. Unfortunately that is the question in this case, not the answer.
I did find a hit on MoinMoin ironically that wiki has MediaWiki syntax highlighting.
What I'd like to be able to do is to use syntaxhighlight around some mediawiki page mark-up to demonstrate how different pages or sections can be set-up. For now I'm using the <syntaxhighlight lang="text" ... >.
I'd like either a suitable "wiki"-highlight option or an workable alternative that will highlight some wiki markup. Ideally it would be fantastic to say:
<syntaxhighlight lang="mediawiki" >...</syntaxhighlight>
I am surprised that this hasn't been asked before though.
edit 2016-05-09:
As a work around I have settled on the following for the time being. It isn't as pretty as having the final tag inside the syntaxhighlight but it gets the job done:
== xml ==
<syntaxhighlight lang="text" highlight="1,11">
:<syntaxhighlight highlight="6" lang="xml">
<tomcat-users ...>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<user username="admin" password="****" roles="manager-gui,manager-script"/>
</syntaxhighlight>
<code><nowiki></syntaxhighlight></nowiki></code>
Which shows the closing </syntaxhighlight> tag outside the main box.
In the core, Extension:SyntaxHighlight uses Pygments, and it is extensible to make your own "syntax highlighting" or find a big set of other languages, take a look maybe you can find something useful, but I'm not sure that it will be something out of the box.