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by joncrane 2401 days ago
Wiki means fast in Hawaiian.

It came to be synonymous with online community editable websites for information.

But it's original meaning is from the Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki" which means quickly.

So it makes sense. Quickbuy.

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that's the origin, but not exactly what the contemporary computer meaning is (which is more like "crowd-sourced")