wiki

a Web site or database developed by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content

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W0153050 (wĭk′ē)n. pl. wi·kis A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.

[Originally an abbreviation of WikiWikiWeb, software developed by American computer programmer Howard G. Cunningham (born 1949) : Hawaiian wikiwiki, quick (akin to Tahitian viti, vitiviti, deft, from Proto-Eastern-Polynesian *witi) + web.]

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(ˈwɪkɪ) n (Communications & Information) a. a web application that allows anyone visiting a website to edit content on itb. (as modifier): wiki technology. [C20: from Hawaiian wiki-wiki quick, coined by Ward Cunningham (born 1949), US computer programmer who invented the concept]

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[Hawaiian, wikiwiki = fast], a website designed to permit the development of information resources by creating hyperlinked webpages using software that accessed through a web browser. First devised and named by Ward Cunningham in 1995 when he created the WikiWikiWeb to record and share programming techniques, wikis generally use relatively simply markup (encoding for formatting) to enable the easy creation of content, and as a result typically produce relatively straightfoward webpage layouts. Wikis are usually collaborative, unlike most blogsblog,
short for web log, an online, regularly updated journal or newsletter that is readily accessible to the general public by virtue of being posted on a website. Blogs typically report and comment on topics of interest to the author, and are usually written and posted using
..... Click the link for more information. , and may be found in a wide range of settings. They may, for example, be on the Internet and permit content creation and revision by any person, or may be on a company's internal network (intranet) and be accessible only to specific employees. The best known wiki is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. See also hypertexthypertext,
technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the database.
..... Click the link for more information. .

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(communications)Any collaborative website that users caneasily modify via the web, typically without restriction. Awiki allows anyone, using a web browser, to edit, delete ormodify content that has been placed on the site, including thework of other authors. This has been found to worksurprisingly well since contributors tend to be more numerousand persistent than vandals and old versions of pages arealways available.

Text is entered using a simple mark-up language which isthen rendered as HTML. A feature common to many of thedifferent implementations is that any word in mixed caseLikeThis is automatically turned into a link to a page of thatname, which may or may not exist (similar to the linking inthis dictionary).

In contrast, a web log, typically authored by an individual,does not allow visitors to change the original postedmaterial, only add comments.

Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki wascreated by Ward Cunningham in 1995.

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A website that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www.socialtext.com and www.eurekster.net. Cunningham's site is http://c2.com/cgi/wiki. "Wiki wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian. See Web 2.0 and Wikipedia.

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