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This is a general, non-technical introduction to the WikiMedia software.
=== MediaWiki, Wikimedia, and Wikipedia ===
; ''MediaWiki'' : MediaWiki is the software program that runs Wikipedia [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia] and other Wikimedia projects [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia].
; ''Wikimedia'' : Wikimedia is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that coordinates all contributions to the growing GNU FDL text base assembled by the donors using the Wikipedia, Wiktionary and other projects managed by the foundation [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia].
; ''Wikipedia'' : Wikipedia is the Encyclopedia project, that initiated the development of the MediaWikiSoftware. For a project's description and its history see here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_basic_information] and here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia]. There are several more or less official Sister projects like Wiktionary [http://wiktionary.org/], Wikibooks, [http://wikibooks.org/], Wikinews [http://wikinews.org], and Wikiquote, [http://wikiquote.org/], as well as "unofficial" derivates, all of them using the MediaWiki software.
; ''Wikimedia Meta-Wiki'' : Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (formerly Meta-Wikimedia or MetaWikiPedia) is a wiki meant to work alongside the main Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Meta can be used for several Wikimedia-related purposes [http://meta.wikipedia.org/].
=== What is MediaWiki? ===
The MediaWiki Project has its own [http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/ subversion repository]; if you're interested in the code, you might want to read
* [[Help:Hacker]].
=== What else can MediaWiki do? ===
'''While MediaWiki is not designed to do these things, it can be used as...'''
'''...Content Management System (CMS) software'''
'''...Forum or Bulletin Board System (BBS) software'''
'''...Groupware, Messaging, or Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) software'''
'''...a Workflow Management System (WfMS)'''.
See [[m:Wiki Uses]] for further description and discussion of these items.
== Architecture ==