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Wikipedia

Etymology

1995. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb (first wiki software), from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭʹkē, wēʹkē, IPA: /ˈwɪki/, /ˈwiːki/, X-SAMPA: /"wIki/, /"wi:ki/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪki, -iːki
• Homophone: wicky

Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

1. A collaborative website which can be directly edited using only a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

Translations

collaborative website

Afrikaans: wiki (af) Arabic: ويكي (wiki) Armenian: վիքի (hy) (vik'i) Catalan: wiki (ca) Chinese: 維基, 维基 (wéijī) Danish: wiki (da) Dutch: wiki (nl) Esperanto: vikio (eo) Estonian: viki (et) Finnish: wiki (fi) French: wiki (fr) m. Georgian: ვიკი (viki) German: Wiki (de) n. Greek: βίκι (el) n. (víki), also γουίκι (el) n. (gouíki) and ουίκι (el) n. (ouíki) Hebrew: ויקי (he) (wiki) Hungarian: viki (hu) Interlingua: wiki (ia) Italian: wiki (it) Japanese: ウィキ (wiki)

Khmer: វិគី (vikī) Korean: 위키 (wiki) Lithuanian: viki (lt) Luxembourgish: Wiki (lb) n. Macedonian: вики (mk) (víki) Norwegian: wiki (no) Panjabi: ਵਿਕਿ (wiki) Persian: ویکی (viki) Polish: wiki (pl) Portuguese: wiki (pt) Romanian: wiki (ro) Russian: вики (ru) (víki) Serbian: вики (sr), viki (sr) Spanish: wiki (es) Swedish: wiki (sv) Turkish: viki (tr) Volapük: vük (vo) Võro: viki Welsh: wici (cy)

Derived terms

• interwiki

Verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

1. (transitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.

   To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.

   • 2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, Wired News:

     I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe

   • 2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, uk.rec.sheds, Usenet:

     Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'

   • 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65:

     I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.

2. (intransitive) To conduct research on a wiki.
3. (intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.
   • 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73:

     Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.

   • 2007, Dan Woods, Wikis for dummies, page 17:

     The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.

   • 2008, Robert E. Cummings; Matt Barton, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, page 46:

     For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements

4. (transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
   • 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”^[1], Time: 

     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.

Translations

research on a wiki

Dutch: wikiën (nl)

Limburgish: wikieë

contribute to a wiki

Dutch: wikiën (nl) Esperanto: vikiumi

Limburgish: bewikieë

Derived terms

• wikify
• wikiholic
• wikilink
• The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary (Wiktionarian), WikiLeaks, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Foundation.

References

• “wiki” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• "wiki" in the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6), Lexico Publishing Group, 2003-2005.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• kiwi, Kiwi

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Dutch

Etymology

From English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʋiki/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

wiki m. (plural wiki's, diminutive wikietje)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikiën

Anagrams

• kiwi

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French

Noun

wiki m. (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikifier
• Wikipédia
• Wiktionnaire

Anagrams

• kiwi

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Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *witi (note: only attested in Central-Eastern Polynesian).

Verb

wiki

1. to hasten; quick, fast

References

• “wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

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Limburgish

Etymology

From English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwi˦kə˧/, /ˈwi˦ki˨/

Noun

wiki

1. wiki

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Lower Sorbian

1. wiki

Etymology

From Middle Low German wīk, from Latin vicus.

Noun

wiki pt (plurale tantum)

1. market (commerce),

   Stwórtk su pśecej wiki.

   The market is always [open] on Thursdays.

2. town square.

Declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative			wiki
Genitive			wikow
Dative			wikam
Accusative			wiki
Instrumental			wikami
Locative			wikach

Derived terms

• konjece wiki
• pjenjezne wiki
• wjelike wiki

Related terms

• wikowanišćo

References

• Notes:

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Norwegian

Etymology

From English wiki, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”).

Noun

wiki m.

1. wiki

Inflection

    Inflection of wiki

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	wiki	wikien	wikier	wikiene
Nynorsk m	wiki	wikien	wikiar	wikiane

Derived terms

• wikifisere

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwi.ki/, /ˈɡwi.ki/

Etymology

From English wiki.

Noun

wiki m. and f. (plural wikis)

1. wiki

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Swahili

Etymology

From English week.

Noun

wiki

1. a week

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /viːkɪ/, /vɪkɪ/, /wiːkɪ/, /wɪkɪ/

Noun

wiki c.

1. wiki.

Declension

Declension of wiki

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	wiki	wikin	wikier	wikierna
genitive	wikis	wikins	wikiers	wikiernas

The plurals are not agreed upon, other words for the indefinite plural nominative presently in use include wikier, wikis, wikisar, wikior, wikiar, wiki etc.