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Hawaiian for quick, now the world's messiest, mightiest archive of everything we know
means A website that lets anyone create and edit interlinked pages collaboratively, building a shared body of knowledge.
from From the Hawaiian word "wiki," meaning "quick" — doubled in "wiki wiki" for "very quick." Programmer Ward Cunningham named his fast-editing website "WikiWikiWeb" in the mid-1990s after the Wiki Wiki Shuttle buses at Honolulu Airport, having been told the word meant "quick." The clipped form "wiki" stuck, and the idea spread far beyond its tropical root.
- name origin
- Honolulu airport shuttle named Wiki Wiki
- first one
- Ward Cunningham launched WikiWikiWeb in 1995
- edit power
- Anyone can rewrite a page, instantly
- edit wars
- Pages get locked over fierce factual disputes
- scale
- Wikipedia spans 300-plus languages
for instance
wikipedia — free online encyclopedia with over 6.7 million english articles, founded 2001
wikimedia foundation — non-profit organization that operates wikipedia and other wiki projects