wiki
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/ ˈwɪk i /
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noun, plural wik·is.
(sometimes initial capital letter) a website that allows users to add, delete, or revise content by using a web browser: The wiki has character descriptions and image galleries for every game in the franchise.Students who contribute to the class review wiki may earn extra credit points on their exams.Research and development team members should all have permission to edit the design wikis for all current projects.
Also called wik·i en·gine, wik·i ap·pli·ca·tion . the software used to create a wiki.
adjective
of, relating to, or being a wiki: wiki servers.
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Origin of wiki
First recorded in 1990–95; shortening of WikiWikiWeb, a software program developed by Howard G. “Ward” Cunningham (born 1949), U.S. computer programmer; from Hawaiian wikiwiki “very quick,” emphatic reduplication of wiki “quick.”
Cunningham coined the name WikiWikiWeb after recalling that a Honolulu International Airport counter employee advised him to take the Wiki Wiki Shuttle (a shuttle bus that runs between the terminals of the airport); his original idea was to make WikiWikiWeb's pages readily editable by its users and initially thought about calling his program QuickWeb but changed his mind and named it WikiWikiWeb
Cunningham coined the name WikiWikiWeb after recalling that a Honolulu International Airport counter employee advised him to take the Wiki Wiki Shuttle (a shuttle bus that runs between the terminals of the airport); his original idea was to make WikiWikiWeb's pages readily editable by its users and initially thought about calling his program QuickWeb but changed his mind and named it WikiWikiWeb
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How to use wiki in a sentence
“Wikis were one of the things that allowed collaboration,” Berners-Lee said.
I think there are great possibilities for the use of wikis to help citizens help each other.
There's no way they organized this without email and wikis and mailing lists.
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British Dictionary definitions for wiki
wiki
/ (ˈwɪkɪ) /
noun
- a web application that allows anyone visiting a website to edit content on it
- (as modifier)wiki technology
Word Origin for wiki
C20: from Hawaiian wiki-wiki quick, coined by Ward Cunningham (born 1949), US computer programmer who invented the concept
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