This is a general, non-technical introduction to the WikiMedia software.
== Architecture ==
The current MediaWiki software is built on top of an ''AMP'' environment; in this case, this means that MediaWiki utilizes:
* the [[w:en:Apache HTTP Server|apache]] [[w:en:Web server|web server]] for delivering web pages,
* the [[w:en:DBMS|relational database management system]] [[w:en:MySQL|MySQL]] as a database backend for storing the content, and
* the [[w:en:Scripting language|scripting language]] [[w:en:PHP|PHP]] for the application logic that glues together these components.
== System Requirements ==
