# wiki

Pronunciation: say "WIK-ee" /ˈwɪki/

## Noun

1. A collaborative website whose pages can be edited directly in a web browser, often by anyone who can access it.
   - Simple: A website that many people build together, where users can change the pages in their browser.
   - _The team keeps its project notes on an internal wiki so everyone can update them._
   - _Fans have built detailed wikis covering every character in the series._

## Verb

2. To look something up on Wikipedia or a similar wiki.
   - Simple: To look up information on Wikipedia or another wiki.
   - _I wikied the director halfway through the film to find out what else she had made._
   - _If you can't remember when the treaty was signed, just wiki it before class._
3. To add to or edit the content of a wiki, or to produce something such as a document collaboratively by means of a wiki.
   - Simple: To write or change pages on a wiki, often working together with other people.

## Origin

Shortened from WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki, which Ward Cunningham named after the Wiki Wiki Shuttle buses at Honolulu airport; Hawaiian wikiwiki means "quick". The short form is first recorded in 1995, in PC Week.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wiki (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).