I tend to write a good amount of documentation so the MediaWiki format to me is easy for me to understand plus it saves me a lot of time than having to write traditional HTML.
Looked into this a bit and think that a good route to take here would be to learn to a general markup language like restucturedtext or markdown and then be able to convert from there. Discovered a program called pandoc that can convert either of these to HTML and Mediawiki. Appreciate the help.
Example:
pandoc -f mediawiki -s myfile.mediawiki -o myfile.html -s