Wiki
Pronunciation
- enPR: wÄʹkÄ“, IPA: /ˈwɪki/, /ˈwiËki/
- Rhymes: -ɪki, -iËki
- Homophones: wicky
Full definition of wiki
Noun
wiki
(plural wikis)- A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.
Derived terms
Verb
- (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, 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, Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'
- 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied†it.
- (intransitive) To conduct research on a wiki.
- (intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.
- 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
- 2007, Dan Woods, Wikis for dummies, 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, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, 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
- (transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
- 2009, October 19, Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?, 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.
Derived terms
- wikify
- wikiholic
- wikilink
- The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary (), WikiLeaks, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Foundation.