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wiki (WIK-ee) - n., a website that allows users to add, delete, or revise content through their web browser.
As in Wikipedia, yes, and yes it's from Hawaiian, through a roundabout story. The first wiki software was developed in 1995 by Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham. His original intention was to call it QuickWeb, because pages could be quickly updated [Sidebar: the CamelCase is because that's how links to other pages were formatted], but he had recently taken the wikiwiki shuttle, "quick shuttle," between terminals of Honolulu Airport, and so named it WikiWikiWeb instead. (I assume aligning with the WWW meaning World-Wide Web was also a consideration here.) In Hawaiian, wikiwiki is a stative verb meaning to be quick/speedy, an emphatic by reduplication form of wiki, to hasten.
---L.
As in Wikipedia, yes, and yes it's from Hawaiian, through a roundabout story. The first wiki software was developed in 1995 by Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham. His original intention was to call it QuickWeb, because pages could be quickly updated [Sidebar: the CamelCase is because that's how links to other pages were formatted], but he had recently taken the wikiwiki shuttle, "quick shuttle," between terminals of Honolulu Airport, and so named it WikiWikiWeb instead. (I assume aligning with the WWW meaning World-Wide Web was also a consideration here.) In Hawaiian, wikiwiki is a stative verb meaning to be quick/speedy, an emphatic by reduplication form of wiki, to hasten.
---L.
