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wiki wiki: snapshot etymology

wikiwikibus.jpg
Found on Flickr: the famous “wiki wiki” shuttle bus at the Honolulu airport. In Hawaiian pidgin, “wiki wiki” means “quick,” or “informal,” and is what inspired Ward Cunningham in 1995 to name his new openly editable web document engine “wiki”, or the WikiWikiWeb.
(photo by cogdogblog)