wiki
A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
Noun
- A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
- He spent time editing articles on the wiki.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwikider. English wiki First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
Forms
Derived
reception wiki Wikimania wiki page Wikipedist Wiktionarian Wiktionary interwiki off-wiki on-wiki subwiki The Other Wiki transwiki wikian wikibreak wikicode wiki crack wiki farm wikifarm wikification wikify wikiholic Wikiholic wikilawyering wikiless
Verb
- To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
- To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
- I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe - 2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:
- Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe' - 2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
- To contribute to a wiki.
- Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product. - 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73:
- The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it. - 2007, Dan Woods with Peter Thoeny, Wikis for dummies, page 17:
- For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi,...
- To participate in the wiki-based production of.
- The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song. - 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in...