wiki
noun
- type of website that visitors can easily and quickly edit
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪki/ / /ˈwiːki/ / /ˈwɪkɪj/
name
- Abbreviation of Wikipedia.
“Wiki is where I go to research facts about Asian culture.”
noun
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- 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”
- To contribute to a wiki.
“Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.”
“The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.”
- 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.”