Wiki
A wiki (pronounced wik' ee) is a website designed to allow very easy collaborative modification of its content. The term wiki is and comes from the Hawaiian language. In Hawaiian "wikiwiki" (sometimes "wiki wiki") means quickly. "wikiwiki" - bottom of page
Ward Cunningham visited Hawaii where he was first exposed to the term. He applied the term by naming his idea and created the first wiki in 1995. Free Online Dictionary - wiki Cunningham's book is available at wiki.org. [1] His idea was that a webpage could be modified by its readers, and the result of a reader's modification would immediately become the viewable page. Through usage the term has shortened from wikiwiki, to wiki.
There are now very many wikis on the Internet, including this site.
