wikia Web site or database developed by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit contentAbused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embreewi·ki (w?k??)n. pl. wi·kis A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.[Originally an abbreviation of WikiWikiWeb, software developed by American computer programmer Howard G. Cunningham (born 1949) : Hawaiian wikiwiki, quick (akin to Tahitian viti, vitiviti, deft, from Proto-Eastern-Polynesian *witi) + web.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.wiki (?w?k?) n (Communications & Information) a. a web application that allows anyone visiting a website to edit content on itb. (as modifier): wiki technology. [C20: from Hawaiian wiki-wiki quick, coined by Ward Cunningham (born 1949), US computer programmer who invented the concept]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014