Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.
Wiktionary
- n. A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.
- v. transitive To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
- v. intransitive To conduct research on a wiki.
- v. intransitive To contribute to a wiki.
- v. transitive To participate in the wiki-based production of.
Etymologies
- 1995. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki ("quick") + English web. (Wiktionary)
- Originally an abbreviation of WikiWikiWeb, software developed by American computer programmer Howard G. Cunningham (born 1949) : Hawaiian wikiwiki, quick + web. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What happened to the nice PHPBB wiki (@wiki.phpbb.com) that looked like the ACP?”
“According to Meredith Farkas, the word "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word meaning "quick.”
“The concept of "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word for "quick" and is a fast way to cross-link information by using WikiWords, a mixed case word entered into an editor.”
“Hence the term wiki--coined a decade ago by programmer Howard Cunningham--which means "hurry quick" in Hawaiian.”
“If you're not familiar with the term wiki, here's a definition from Wikipedia, which is itself probably the highest profile wiki on the internet.”
“The term wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian, and wikis are all about quickly linking your information together.”
“The term wiki also can refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a site, or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (the original wiki) WikiWikiWeb and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia.”
“Almost all wikis require a server, because a wiki is a webpage at its heart, but some are made to run locally on your machine, meaning all you need is a computer.”
“Not that the wiki is the cure all for all, as it is written by the combined minds of all, but it does give one a start.”
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“This wiki is a resource both for current union members and for library professionals seeking information about joining or starting a union”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wiki’.
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recent new scrabble words
these came into effect from 2011
abitur, abiturs, abscisic, achar, achars, acquis, addings, aerobot, aerobots, aguna, agunah, agunot and 1465 more...
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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And the geek shall inherit the Earth
teh, interweb, lolcat, blogosphere, troll, googlewashing, spam, googling, googlewhacking, pwnage, leet, zomg and 12 more...
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Computers changed everything
Words that were well established before they gained special use in computing systems.
server, protocol, interface, bug, spam, virus, mouse, program, hack, chip, drive, window and 61 more...
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Web Words to Know
Neologisms, portmanteau, and adapted words that pertain to the internet and technology.
blog, collective intell..., crowdsourcing, flash mob, follow friday, google, groundswell, hash tag, lifecasting, lurker, mashup, meme and 15 more...
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Of Curious Provenance
Words with interesting etymologies.
boustrophedon, octothorpe, neurogami, shampoo, rubric, vernacular, ovolo, mojo, sycophant, wiki, obstreperous, geezer and 8 more...
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
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pagecrusher's Words
fugu, ilk, rigamarole, superfluous, dearth, sacrosanct, moniker, bifurcate, villainous, onus, brazen, odin and 268 more...
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edwardvielmetti's Words
wordhord, wordhoard, wordy, wordie, wiki, toriokyo, superpatron, vacuum, crazy, crazybusy, a2b3, 48104 and 220 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wiki.
garyth123 quick, see wiki wiki Jan 2, 2009
ms.thoennes A web site that can be easily edited by anyone with permission to do so without any special software beyond the editor's browser. Aug 14, 2008
inkhorn "Contrary to popular belief, not invented by Wikipedia."
...or Will Smith
"Wiki wiki wild wild west"
Dec 21, 2006
seanahan In Hawaiian, it is doubled, as in "wiki wiki", and it is pronounced "wee-kee". Contrary to popular belief, not invented by Wikipedia. Dec 21, 2006
johnca A bunch of such pages, which can easily link to each other. Dec 21, 2006
allenfarquhar A webpage that can be updated by anyone. From Hawaiian for "very fast". Dec 3, 2006