[Pmwiki-users] Is there a difference between Wiki and Wiki-Wiki :-)

Jonathan Scott Duff duff
Mon Dec 1 18:58:06 CST 2003


On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:40:43PM +1300, John Rankin wrote:
> For more than you ever wanted to know, see
> 
> http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
> 
> The story I read somewhere is that the name comes from the
> Wiki-Wiki Airport Shuttle Bus in Hawaii.

As I remember it, "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian.  To mean "really
quick", you double it to "wiki wiki".  But read the above URL.

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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