What does wikiup mean?
Wikiup is a rare, chiefly historical computing term for a wiki, meaning a website whose pages can be created and revised collaboratively by its users. The word is chiefly encountered in descriptions of early wiki software and is not normally used in present-day conversation. In earlier computing contexts, “wikiup” distinguished an emerging collaborative web system from ordinary websites, which typically presented pages created by a small group of site owners. As wiki-based tools became widely established, the shorter and more familiar term “wiki” replaced it in ordinary usage. A wikiup could therefore provide shared documentation, discussion pages, reference material, or other forms of collaboratively maintained information. Although the underlying concept remains common, the name itself is largely obsolete, so modern speakers are much more likely to use “wiki” or another descriptive phrase such as “collaborative website.”
nounAn obsolete informal computing term for a wiki—a website whose pages are collaboratively created and edited by users. It is chiefly encountered in accounts of the early development of wiki software.
- An obsolete informal name for a wiki or a collaboratively edited website.
"For years, the team maintained an internal wikiup for policies, meeting notes, and departmental procedures."
"The archive preserves an early screenshot of the wikiup interface."
"She suggested creating a company wikiup to keep the team's documentation in one place."
The plural is rarely encountered because the noun itself is obsolete and uncommon.
"The archive contains references to several early wikiups used by software teams."
A piece of early internet history: before “wiki” became the familiar name, there was “wikiup.”
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Etymology of wikiup
Wikiup combines the early computing term wiki with the English element up. The computing term wiki was coined by Ward Cunningham in the 1990s by shortening the Hawaiian wikiwiki, meaning “quick-quick,” to evoke rapid collaborative editing. Wikiup was used as an early name in this developing wiki-software context, but wiki subsequently became the established term.
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How wikiup is actually used
The term is informal and now chiefly historical. In contemporary English, “wiki” is the normal and standard term.
Easily confused with wikiup
Wikiup was an early, now-obsolete name associated with collaborative wiki software, whereas wiki is the established modern term for such a website.