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Wiki: A Word's Journey

WIKI Beutler Ink PRESENTS A WORD'S JOURNEY THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY DEFINES A WIKI AS A "WEB PAGE DESIGNED SO THAT ITS CONTENT CAN BE EDITED BY ANYONE." BUT LANGUAGE CHANGES AND MEANINGS SHIFT-LET'S TAKE A RIDE THROUGH THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF THE WORD WIKI. YEAR 1970 THE WORD WIKI, FROM PROTO-CENTRAL-EASTERN- AIK POLYNESIAN *WITI, IS HAWAI'IAN FOR "QUICK." THE HAWAIIAN WORD IS USED AS THE NAME OF A SHUTTLE BETWEEN TERMINALS AT HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: THE WIKI-WIKI WIKI-WIKI-OR "QUICK-QUICK"-SHUTTLE. YEAR 1994 WARD CUNNINGHAM, A SOFTWARE ENGINEER FROM PORTLAND, OREGON, ADOPTS THE PHRASE "WIKI-WIKI" FROM THE SHUTTLE AND USES IT IN PLACE OF "QUICK" FOR THE FIRST WIKI PROJECT, WIKIWIKIWEB. YEAR 2001 WIKIPEDIA, "THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA THAT ANYONE CAN EDIT," LAUNCHES AND и GROWS WIKI-WIKI, FROM 20,000 ARTICLES IN ENGLISH AT THE END OF 2001 TO MORE W. THAN 4.2 MILLION TODAY. YEAR 2006 WIKILEAKS, A NON-EDITABLE PLATFORM FOR PEOPLE TO ANONYMOUSLY LEAK INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA, LAUNCHES. YEAR 2009-2011 GOOGLE LAUNCHES ITS SIDEWIKI PROJECT, A BROWSER SIDEBAR THAT ALLOWED COMMENTS PEOPLE TO "HELP AND LEARN FROM OTHERS AS YOU SURF THE WEB" BY COMMENTING ON ANY WEBSITE. THE WORD WIKI IS BEING USED IN AN EVER BROADENING RANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, FROM WIKISWAY, A VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR FACEBOOK AND CRUNCHBASE, TO CORPORATION WIKI, A SPECIALIZED WIKI FOR COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS. YEAR 2013 WIKI-WIKI AND THE MEANING OF THE WORD WIKI HASN'T ONLY BROADENED IN ENGLISH- WITH THE GROWTH OF THE INTERNET, IT'S BEEN BORROWED INTO LANGUAGES AROUND THE WORLD, FROM THAI ôn TO HEBREW '7'I. BUT WHEREVER YOU FIND IT, AND WHATEVER ITS EXACT MEANING, THE WORD WIKI EMBODIES MUCH MORE THAN JUST WIKIPEDIA-IT POINTS TO THE wikia OPENNESS, COLLABORATION, AND INFORMATION-SHARING THAT EXEMPLIFIES THE BEST OF THE INTERNET. SOURCES: Polynesian Lexicon Project Online • Official Google Blog •The Wikipedia Revolution by Andrew Lih • Network Solutions WHOIS BY

Wiki: A Word's Journey

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Originally from Hawaiʻian, the word wiki has taken on a life of its own after being borrowed into English. Wiki: A Word’s Journey tracks some of these changes in meaning, and the ever changing way ...

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