wiki
[wik-ee]
- (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.
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- of, relating to, or being a wiki: wiki servers.
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Origin of wiki
From the Hawaiian word wiki to hurry; quick, fast
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Examples from the Web for wikis
Contemporary Examples
“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.
Historical Examples
There's no way they organized this without email and wikis and mailing lists.
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wiki
- a web application that allows anyone visiting a website to edit content on it
- (as modifier)wiki technology
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Word Origin
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
n.
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."
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