Wiki Definition

wĭkē
wikis
noun
A Web application that allows any visitor to a website to edit that website's content.
Webster's New World
Such an editable website.
Webster's New World
verb

To research on or some similar wiki.

To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
Wiktionary
(intransitive) To conduct research on a wiki.
Wiktionary

(intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.

Wiktionary
To participate in the wiki-based production of.
Wiktionary
pronoun
(proscribed) .
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Other Word Forms of Wiki

Noun

Singular:
wiki
Plural:
wikis

Origin of Wiki

  • Originally an abbreviation of WikiWikiWeb software developed by American computer programmer Howard G. Cunningham (born 1949) Hawaiian wikiwiki quick (akin to Tahitian viti, vitiviti deft) (from Proto-Eastern-Polynesian witi) web

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 1995. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick") + English web.

    From Wiktionary

Wiki Sentence Examples

  • The following categories exist in the wiki.

  • Also I feel wiki pages serve the collective memory of a group better than email threads in archives.

  • M bath; I upload a couple of sci mus pics to wiki.

  • I read the paper in the sun and check on wiki - seems sane at the moment.

  • We are a user-edited wiki site, maintained by expert writers and editors, that anyone is free and welcome to contribute to.

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