1. wiki - Noun
2. wiki - Verb
3. Wiki - Proper 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.
(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
(intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.
(transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
Wiki
(proscribed) Abbreviation of Wikipedia.
Wiki is where I go to research facts about Asian culture.
Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way. Ward Cunningham
Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages? Ward Cunningham
When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about. Ward Cunningham
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know. Ward Cunningham
The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration. John C. Dvorak
Top down hierarchies make communication work when it is expensive, I hope that wiki can be a flagship in this move in the industry to produce computer support for this kind of work and evolve organizational forms. Ward Cunningham