Wiki comes from Hawaiian wiki (quick), chosen by programmer Ward Cunningham in 1995 after the Wiki Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu Airport — he wanted a word meaning 'quick' that wasn't English.
A website or database that allows collaborative editing of its content by users.
From Hawaiian wiki, meaning 'quick, fast.' Ward Cunningham, the programmer who created the first wiki in 1995, named it WikiWikiWeb after the Wiki Wiki Shuttle bus at Honolulu International Airport, where wiki wiki means 'very quick.' He chose it because wiki was the first Hawaiian word he learned, and he wanted a word meaning quick that wasn't the English word 'quick.' Key roots: wiki (Hawaiian: "quick, fast").
Ward Cunningham almost called his invention QuickWeb, but he wanted something less generic. He remembered the Wiki Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu Airport and chose wiki because it sounded better than 'quick-quick-web.' Hawaiian has only thirteen letters in its alphabet, making wiki one of the shortest loanwords English