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It comes from the Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki" which means quick. Ward Cunningham is generally recognized as the first to use this term in the mid 1990s and a wiki allowed you to change content much quicker than the the traditional method (at that time) of using a special program like FrontPage to generate HTML content.

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