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noun, plural wikis.
1.
(sometimes initial capital letter
) a Web site that allows anyone to add, delete, or revise content by using a web browser.
) a Web site that allows anyone to add, delete, or revise content by using a web browser.2.
Also called wiki engine, wiki application. the software used to create a wiki.
adjective
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of, pertaining to, or being a wiki: wiki servers.
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Wiki
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Origin:
< Hawaiian wiki to hurry; quick, fast
< Hawaiian wiki to hurry; quick, fast
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Example Sentences
- Wiki could figure out where to put this and the interested reader could seek it out.
- There is also a baby wiki on history journal response times.
- Great article, much better description to the wiki page.
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| Main Entry: | wiki |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a collaborative Web site set up to allow user editing and adding of content |
| Etymology: | 1995; < Hawaiian wiki wiki quick |
| Usage: | sometimes cap. |
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wiki definition
communicationsAny collaborative website that users can easily modify via the web, typically without restriction. A wiki allows anyone, using a web browser, to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed on the site, including the work of other authors. This has been found to work surprisingly well since contributors tend to be more numerous and persistent than vandals and old versions of pages are always available.
Text is entered using a simple mark-up language which is then rendered as HTML. A feature common to many of the different implementations is that any word in mixed case LikeThis is automatically turned into a link to a page of that name, which may or may not exist (similar to the linking in this dictionary).
In contrast, a web log, typically authored by an individual, does not allow visitors to change the original posted material, only add comments.
Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunningham in 1995.
wiki.org (http://wiki.org/).
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wiki
World Wide Web (WWW) site that can be modified or contributed to by users. Wikis can be dated to 1995, when American computer programmer Ward Cunningham created a new collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites. Using a Hawaiian term meaning "quick," he called this new software WikiWikiWeb, attracted by its alliteration and also by its matching abbreviation (WWW)
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