Wikis

Wiki From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Wikis) For other uses, see Wiki (disambiguation).

Wiki Portal A wiki (IPA: [ˈwiː.kiː]  or [ˈwɪ.kiː] [1]) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website (see wiki software), or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (and original wiki), WikiWikiWeb, and the online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. The first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, is named after the "Wiki Wiki" line of Chance RT-52 buses in Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. It was created in 1994 and installed on the web in 1995 by Ward Cunningham, who also created the Portland Pattern Repository. "Wiki-wiki" means "fast" in Hawaiian. It also refers to a type of native fish of the islands.

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