Wiki define

1.wiki, n. Oxford English Dictionary (draft entry, March 2007) Requires Paid Subscription

A type of web page designed so that its content can be edited by anyone who accesses it, using a simplified markup language.

1995 PC Week 10 July (Net Week Suppl.) 23/2 Windows NT-based client applications include Telnet.., drag-and-drop FTP.., an SMTP and POP2/3-compatible mail client,..and wiki-paging utility. 2000 Information Week (Nexis) 21 Feb. 170 You've got your code archive, your design reviews, your internal Web site, and for sure you've got a torrent of E-mail. But do you have a Wiki? 2005 Wall St. Jrnl. (Central ed.) 21 Mar. R15/3 Why not create a travel wiki where travelers can change and update the entries themselves? 2006 Economist (Electronic ed.) 22 Apr. 10 Team members in a company, for instance, might use wikis to collaborate on presentations or project calendars.


2."wiki". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1. London: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.. 2007. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192819/wiki. Retrieved on 10 April 2008.

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).