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The word "wiki", pronounced /wki/ or WIK-ee, is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick".

A wiki is a type of website whose contents can be edited from the web browser, and which keeps a version history for each editable page. Wikis are often, but not always, editable by any visitor to the site.

See also: Wikipedia's entry on "wiki software".

For a more complete description, see Wikipedia's entry on "wiki".

Wikimedia is the collective name for the Wikimedia movement, revolving around a group of inter-related projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote and others, which aim to use the collaborative power of the Internet, and the wiki concept, to create and share free knowledge of all kinds.

Wikipedia is a Wikimedia project that is a global, free and multilingual internet encyclopedia. It is the oldest and largest Wikimedia project, founded in 2001 predating the Wikimedia Foundation itself, which was founded in 2003.Wikipedia is often described as a wiki, but it is in fact a collection of over 200 wikis, one for each language, all running on the MediaWiki software.

MediaWiki is a particular wiki engine software developed for and used by Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects.MediaWiki is freely available for others to use (and improve), and it is in use by all sorts of projects and organizations around the world.

This site, mediawiki.org, is intended for information about MediaWiki and related software.

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