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wiki¹
- /ˈwɪki/
- /ˈwiːki/
- /ˈwɪkɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
Sounds like wicky, weaky, wickie · Rhymes with -ɪki, -iːki
Where it comes from
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
noun wikis
- 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 wikis · wikiing · wikied
- To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki. To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
- To contribute to a wiki. Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
- 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.
Wiki²
proper noun
- Abbreviation of Wikipedia Wiki is where I go to research facts about Asian culture.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: wikipedia, vicky, ueki, wikis, mediawiki, editathon, wikitorial, wikiverse, wikia, wikisphere, wiki farm, wikitext, user page, webguide, wikiquette, wikicode
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noun collaborative website
| Español | wiki |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 위키 wiki |
| 日本語 | ウィキ wiki |
| 中文 | 維基 /维基 wéijī |
| हिन्दी | विकि viki |
| Kiswahili | wiki |
| Português | wiki |
| Français | wiki |
| Deutsch | Wiki |
| Italiano | wiki |
| Ελληνικά | βίκι víki |
| Română | wiki |
| Русский | ви́ки víki |
| Tiếng Việt | wiki |
| العربية | وِيكِي wikī |
| עברית | וִיקִי wiki |
verb contribute to a wiki
| 日本語 | ウィキする wiki-suru, ウィキる wiki-ru |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 寫維基 /写维基, 寫 Wiki /写 Wiki |
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title = {wiki},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
