In his version of the story, he then convinced Wales to try the wiki approach.
I had buzzed around the wiki flower for a while, and then pollinated the free-encyclopedia flower.
The more I thought about it, without even having seen a wiki, the more it seemed obviously right.
There were wiki pages where users could jointly formulate and debate the rules.
When he asked what it meant, he was told that wiki was the Hawaiian word for quick, and wiki wiki meant superquick.
So he named his Web pages and the software that ran them wikiwikiWeb, wiki for short.
Consequently, there were soon scores of wiki sites as well as open-source improvements to his software.
It then dawned on Sanger, he claimed, that a wiki could be used to help solve the problems he was having with Nupedia.
There are several other things in the wiki vs. doctors article to quibble about, which the authors generously note.
An admirer of wikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Wilson says the plastic gun is a “wiki Weapon” that he calls “The Liberator.”
a collaborative Web site set up to allow user editing and adding of content
1995; < Hawaiian wiki wiki quick
sometimes cap.
web page that can be edited by browsers, by 2002, abstracted from names of such sites (e.g. Wikipedia, launched January 2001), the original being WikiWikiWeb, introduced and named by Ward Cunningham in 1995, from Hawaiian wikiwiki "fast, swift."
