A WikiWiki (usually known as a wiki) is a web application which enables communities to collaboratively add, modify, or delete the content of a web site. Text is written using a simple markup language (called WikiMarkup) or a rich-text editor.


Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". "Wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word "wikiwiki" meaning "fast" or "quick". Ward Cunningham and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows:

See: the original WikiWikiWeb or Wiki on Wikipedia