wiki
/ˈwɪki/
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British/ˈwɪkɪj/
wiki noun: a collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
Noun
wiki (plural wikis)
- A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
- He spent time editing articles on the wiki.
Verb
wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)
- To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
- To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
- I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News
- To contribute to a wiki.
- Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73
- The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.2007, Dan Woods with Peter Thoeny, Wikis for dummies, page 17
- To participate in the wiki-based production of.
- 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.2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2011
Proper noun capitalized: Wiki
Wiki
- Abbreviation of Wikipedia.
- Wiki is where I go to research facts about Asian culture.
wiki meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
wiki in Hindi
- collaborative website
- विकि viki
wiki in Tamil
- collaborative website
- விக்கி vikki
wiki in Marathi
- collaborative website
- विकी vikī
wiki in Bengali
- collaborative website
- উইকি uiki
More languagesFewer languages
- wiki in Telugu
- వికీ vikī
- wiki in Malayalam
- വിക്കി vikki
- wiki in Punjabi
- ਵਿਕਿ viki
- wiki in Sanskrit
- विकिः vikiḥ
- wiki in Sinhala
- විකි wiki
- wiki in Assamese
- ৱিকি wiki
- wiki in Nepali
- विकि viki
- wiki in Tagalog
- wiki
- wiki in Arabic
- وِيكِي wikī
- wiki in Malay
- wiki
- wiki in Indonesian
- wiki
- wiki in Persian
- ویکی viki
- wiki in Thai
- วิกิ wí-gì
- wiki in Vietnamese
- wiki
- wiki in Myanmar
- ဝီကီ wiki
Examples of wiki in a sentence
- The name Wiktionary is a play on the words wiki and dictionary.
- In the wikiverse, the word "contributions" refers to edits done to a wiki.
- Teams offers the option of a wiki for each team, so go ahead and use those wikis and we'll just transwiki as needed.
Forms of wiki
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wikis |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wikis |
| present participle | wikiing |
| past participle | wikied |
| past | wikied |
Origin of wiki
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.
Words formed from wiki
- reception wiki
- Wikiholism
- wiki page
- Wikipedist
- Wiktionarian
- Wiktionary
- interwiki
- off-wiki
- on-wiki
- subwiki
- The Other Wiki
- transwiki
- wikian
- wikibreak
- wikicode
- wiki crack
- wiki farm
- wikifarm
- wikification
- wikify
- Wikiholic
- wikilawyering
- wikiless
- wikilike
- wikilink
- wiki magic
- wiki markup
- wikiness
- wikinomics
- wikipage
- wikiphobe
- wikiphobia
- wikiquette
- wikisphere
- wikistorming
- wikitext
- wikitime
- wikitorial
- wikiverse
- wiki walk
- Wiknic
Phrases with wiki
Words that rhyme with wiki
Questions about wiki
- What does wiki mean?
- Wiki means a collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.
- What is wiki in Hindi?
- Wiki in Hindi is विकि (viki). See Wiki meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wiki?
- Wiki can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce wiki?
- Wiki is pronounced /ˈwɪki/.
- What is the plural of wiki?
- The plural of wiki is wikis.
Words near wiki in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wiki (page history and authors); Wiki (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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