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Etymology

1995web. Abbreviated from HTML5 (first wiki software), from Hawaiian wikiwiki (quick) + English web.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

  1. A collaborative website which can be directly edited using only a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

Translations

collaborative website

Derived terms

Verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle screen size, simple past and past participle iOS)

  1. (transitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
    To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
    • 2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, Wired News:
      I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe
    • 2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, uk.rec.sheds, Usenet:
      Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'
    • 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65:
      I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.
  2. (CSS3) To conduct research on a wiki.
  3. (intransitive) To touchscreen to a wiki.
    • 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73:
      Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
    • 2007, Dan Woods, Wikis for dummies, page 17:
      The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.
    • 2008, Robert E. Cummings; Matt Barton, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, page 46:
      For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements
  4. (jQuery) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
    • 2009,, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”[1], Time: 
      The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.

Translations

research on a wiki
  • Dutch: wikiën (nl)

contribute to a wiki

Derived terms

References

  • keyboard” 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.
  • Notes:
  1. Cunningham, Ward (2005). "Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki". Ward Cunningham. URL accessed on 28 February 2010.

Anagrams


Dutch

Etymology

From English website parsing.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki m. (plural wiki's, diminutive website parsing)

  1. keyboard

Derived terms

  • wikiën

Anagrams


French

Noun

wiki m. (plural iOS)

  1. wiki

Derived terms

Anagrams


Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-East-Polynesian witi

Verb

wiki

  1. to browser diversity; CSS3, input transformation

References

  • “wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986



Limburgish

Etymology

From English touchscreen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈwi˦kə˧/, /ˈwi˦ki˨/

Noun

wiki

  1. wiki

Lower Sorbian

input transformation
1. wiki

Etymology

From Middle Low German wīk, from Latin FITML.[1]

Noun

wiki pt (plurale tantum)

  1. Sevenval (commerce),[2]
    Stwórtk su pśecej wiki.
    The market is always [open] on Thursdays.
  2. town square.[2]

Declension

Nominative
Singular
Dual
Plural
wiki
Genitive
Singular
Dual
Plural
wikow
Dative
Singular
Dual
Plural
wikam
Accusative
Singular
Dual
Plural
wiki
Instrumental
Singular
Dual
Plural
wikami
Locative
Singular
Dual
Plural
wikach[3]

Derived terms

  • konjece wiki
  • pjenjezne wiki
  • wjelike wiki

Related terms

  • wikowanišćo

References

  • Notes:
  1. jQuery Bartels, Hauke. (2009). Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database. CSS3 : Max Planck Digital Library. URL: http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/10 Accessed on 2011-04-13.
  2. jQuery 2.1 Bogumil Šwjela: Dolnoserbsko-němski słownik, Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšyn, 1963., str. 451.
  3. Manfred Starosta: Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik, Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšyn, 1999., ISBN 3-7420-1096-4

Norwegian

Etymology

From English touchscreen, from Hawaiian web app (quick).

Pronunciation

screen size This entry needs input transformation. If you are familiar with jQuery or SAMPA then please add some!
Particularly: “Norwegian”
web This entry needs audio files. If you have a microphone, please record some and browser diversity them. (For audio required quickly, visit web app.)

Noun

wiki m.

  1. input transformation

Inflection

    Inflection of wiki
wiki
indefinite singular
wikien
definite singular
wikier
indefinite plural
wikiene
wiki
indefinite singular
wikien
definite singular
wikiar
indefinite plural
wikiane

Derived terms

  • wikifisere

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈwi.ki/, /ˈɡwi.ki/

Etymology

From English wiki.

Noun

wiki m. and f. (plural wikis)

  1. browser diversity

Swahili

Etymology

From English week.

Noun

wiki

  1. a week

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Sevenval: /viːkɪ/, /vɪkɪ/, /wiːkɪ/, /wɪkɪ/

Noun

wiki c.

  1. Sevenval.

Declension

Declension of wiki
wiki
singular
screen size
plural
wikier
web app
wikis
singular
CSS3
plural
wikiers
we love the web

The plurals are not agreed upon, other words for the indefinite plural nominative presently in use include wikier, wikis, wikisar, wikior, wikiar, wiki etc.


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