what the word “wiki” means…
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Anyone who has not yet encountered a wiki while surfing the web will sometime soon, for wikis are proliferating quickly. In fact, the word wiki comes from a word for “quick.”

A wiki is a collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone with access to it, and the word wiki is a good example of how the invention of new technologies requires the invention of new words. Wiki is an abbreviation of WikiWikiWeb, the name that American computer programmer Ward Cunningham chose in 1995 for his new code permitting the easy development of collaborative websites. Mr. Cunningham explains that a name such as quick web or the like would have been appropriate for a system that makes webpages quickly. He coined the word WikiWikiWeb from Hawai’ian wikiwiki, “fast, speedy” (a reduplication of wiki, “fast”), with the thought that WikiWikiWeb was more fun to say than quick web. Wikiwiki was the first native Hawai’ian word that Mr. Cunningham learned on his first visit to the islands, when he was instructed by the airport counter agent to take the wikiwiki bus between terminals. Since this word was new to Mr. Cunningham, the agent explained that wikiwiki meant “quick.” Mr. Cunningham himself advocates the pronunciation wee-kee for the new word, since it is closer to the original Hawai’ian, rather than a pronunciation wick-ee. The word wikiwiki in Hawai’ian is akin to Tahitian viti and vitiviti, “deft, alert, well done.” The Hawai’ian word has a k where the Tahitian has a t, a regular correspondence between Hawai’ian and the other Austronesian languages.