User:Quiddity (WMF)/sandbox2

The syntax highlighting is available in both the classic wikitext editor as well as the New Wikitext editor (NWE), as a button that appears in the toolbar. The user can switch the highlighting on and off using that button. This is done via a hidden preference, so if you turn it off then it will stay off, until you turn it on again.

Currently, Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a beta feature. We welcome your feedback on improving it and helping us into rolling it out further in the future.

The feature was primarily built by volunteer developer Pastakhov>User:Pastakhov|Pastakhov; Community Tech helped him to finish the feature, and get it deployed. On the Community Tech side, Niharika>User:NKohli (WMF)|Niharika and Ryan>User:Ryan Kaldari (WMF)|Ryan did the bulk of the work, with help from the Editing team's ESanders>User:ESanders (WMF)|Ed Sanders on integration with Visual Editor's wikitext mode. Test.