wiki

[wik-ee]

noun, plural wikis.

(sometimes initial capital letter) a website that allows anyone to add, delete, or revise content by using a web browser.

Also called wiki engine, wiki application. the software used to create a wiki.

adjective

of, relating to, or being a wiki: wiki servers.

Origin of wiki

From the Hawaiian word wiki to hurry; quick, fast

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Examples from the Web for wikis

Contemporary Examples of wikis

“Wikis were one of the things that allowed collaboration,” Berners-Lee said.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story
Walter Isaacson
October 19, 2014
I think there are great possibilities for the use of wikis to help citizens help each other.
How Obama's New Tech Tsar Can Save America
Nicholas Ciarelli
January 6, 2009

Historical Examples of wikis

There's no way they organized this without email and wikis and mailing lists.
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow

British Dictionary definitions for wikis

wiki

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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Word Origin and History for wikis

wiki

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."