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According to Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first Wiki website:
"Wiki wiki is the first Hawai'ian term I learned on my first visit to the islands. The airport counter agent directed me to take the wiki wiki bus between terminals. I said what? He explained that wiki wiki meant quick. I was to find the quick bus. I did pick up a book about the language before my return home. I learned many things from this but wiki wiki is the word that sticks the most."
For the delightful correspondence between Ward Cunningham and an etymologist for the American Heritage Dictionary at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston, see the Related Link.
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoSome say it is an acronym for: What I Know Is.
It is also said it is a program named WikiWikiWeb for servers.
It is also said it's from the Hawaiian word "wiki-wiki," meaning "quick."
Here is what the Wikipedia article about "wiki" has to say:WikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on the internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki Wiki" shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web."
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Wiki User
∙ 13y agoWard Cunningham who developed a programme allowing online editing of a file selected the phrase 'wiki' from a native Hawaiian language to describe the process. 'Wiki-wiki' has the meaning 'fast' or 'quick'.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago"Wiki" is Hawaiian for "Quick"
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