wikify

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wiki +‎ -fy

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Infinitive
to wikify

Third person singular
wikifies

Simple past
wikified

Past participle
wikified

Present participle
wikifying

to wikify (third-person singular simple present wikifies, present participle wikifying, simple past and past participle wikified)

  1. To adapt text to the standards and facilities of a wiki.
    As a starting point, I've wikified an article I wrote a while ago.
    • 2001 May 22, Jeff Hobbs, "Re: memory usage in tcl"[1], comp.lang.tcl, Usenet:
      This is definitely worth wikifying.
    • 2007 Lisa Neal, My Life as a Wikipedian, “eLearn Magazine”:
      I added a justification, and tried to "wikify" the entry, which involved adding references and reformatting the text.
    • 2007, T. Scott Plutchak, “What's a Serial When You're Running on Internet Time?”[2], The Serials Librarian,: 
      We don't yet know how blogs will evolve, and it is almost certain that what we will be using in ten years will be very different from what we might be using now––but who will be taking the lead in making sure that these are organized and preserved and described in such a way that we can guide someone to the relevant blog posting or wikified document as readily as we now direct them to a particular journal article?
  2. To make into a wiki, or to use a wiki approach
    • 2005 June 26, Frank Kane, “Eureka! Journalists may not be doomed after all”, The Observer:
      The Los Angeles Times proved this last week, with its high-minded but ultimately hilarious attempt to 'wikify ' its editorial column.
    • 2008, Elizabeth Pennisi, “Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance”[3], Science, March 21: 
      Although he's adamant that NCBI is not going to "wikify" GenBank, Lipman says he's eager to work with mycologists to come up with a solution, possibly through RefSeq.
  3. To use or participate in a wiki
    • 2007 May 1, Bruce McCabe, quoted by Graeme Philipson, “On the cusp of another digital revolution”, The Age:
      "They can blog and podcast and 'wikify ' and do all sorts of things we could not even imagine until very recently."

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to adapt text to a wiki
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