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.
No, the word "wiki" is not a Hawaiian word for fast. "Wiki" is actually derived from the Hawaiian word for "quick" or "fast", but its meaning has evolved in the context of collaborative website editing platforms like Wikipedia.
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"Vickie" does not have a specific meaning in Hawaiian as it is a Western name.
"Wiki" is a Hawaiian word meaning "fast." Individual words cannot be protected by copyright.
"Wiki-wiki" means "quickly", or used as encouragement to "hurry up".
Wiki is a Hawaiian word for FAST.
"Wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian.
Wiki wiki means "quick" or "fast" in Hawaiian. It is commonly used in Hawaii to describe something that is done rapidly or efficiently.
wiki wiki means rapid in hawaiian. it might mean "what I Know is"
Technically, yes and no. The word 'wiki' alone is a type of website, and the word 'wiki-wiki', a Hawaiian word, means quick. Wiki alone is a website, wiki doubled with a dash in the middle is the Hawaiian word for quick.
wiki wikiWiki is the Hawaiian word for quick. Wiki wiki means "quick quick". Wiki wiki wiki means "quick quick quick" and so on. Yes, it does sound like a combination of wikipedia and a rapper.
"Wiki" means fast or quick in Hawaiian. Computer programmer Ward Cunningham learned the meaning of the word "wiki" in Hawaii when an airport employee told him to take the "wiki" bus. He applied this name for "fast" to his WikiWikiWeb, which was a predecessor to Wikipedia.