noun
wiki
WIK-ee/ˈwɪki/
A website or knowledge base that users can edit together.
Our team updates the wiki whenever a project changes direction.
Etymology
Hawaiian wikiwiki means “fast, swift.” Used in the name WikiWikiWeb, it supplied a short label for the kind of website whose pages users can edit collaboratively.
In context
pages which is our kind of next generation wiki within the site and what's great about this is that you can follow pages so when someone makes a change
More examples
- You can correct that mistake directly on the wiki.
- Students build a class wiki to share their research.
- Several departments maintain their own wikis for training new employees.
Forms
wiki · wikis
Similar words
- knowledge base
- Organizes reference information but does not necessarily allow collaborative editing.
- website
- A broader term that does not imply collaborative editing.