zuwa nassi da ke ƙasa sannan a amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar nassi: Passage: Aikin Wikipedia ya dogara da MediaWiki, wani tsari na musamman, kyauta da kuma bude tushen wiki software wanda aka rubuta a cikin PHP kuma an gina shi akan tsarin bayanan MySQL. Kayan aikin ya haɗa da fasalolin shirye-shirye kamar harshen macro, masu canji, tsarin ƙididdiga don samfuran, da kuma tura URL. MediaWiki yana da lasisi a ƙarƙashin GNU General Public License kuma duk ayyukan Wikimedia suna amfani da shi, da sauran ayyukan wiki da yawa. Da farko, Wikipedia ya gudana a kan AmfaniModWiki wanda aka rubuta a Perl ta Clifford Adams (Phase I), wanda da farko ya buƙaci CamelCase don haɗin haɗi na labarin; an haɗa salon bracket biyu na yanzu. Daga baya, farawa a 2002 (Phase II), Wikipedia ya fara gudana a kan PHP wiki tare da injin bayanan MySQL; wannan software ne wanda aka tsara don Wikipedia.
harshe na macro, masu canji, tsarin fassara don samfuran, da tura URL