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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb (first wiki software), from Hawaiian wikiwiki (quick) + English web.
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[edit] Noun
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wiki (plural wikis)
- A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it.
[edit] Translations
n. collaborative website
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[edit] Verb
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to wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)
- (transitive) To research a topic on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
- To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
- (intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] 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.
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[edit] Swahili
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Noun
wiki
- derivation of English week.
[edit] Swedish
[edit] Noun
wiki IPA: viːkɪ, vɪkɪ, wiːkɪ, wɪkɪ
- wiki.
[edit] Inflection
| Inflection for wiki | Singular | Plural | ||
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| Common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Nominative | wiki | wikin | wikier | wikierna |
| Genitive | wikis | wikins | wikiers | wikiernas |
1: The plurals are not agreed upon, other words for the indefinite plural nominative presently in use include wikier, wikis, wikisar, wikior, wikiar, wiki etc.

