Talk:Wiki (disambiguation)

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[edit] vandalization

I reverted this page to what it previously was after it had been destroyed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.101.29.151 (talk) 19:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki is common shorthand for Wikipedia?

Really? I've never heard or read that in use. It's always called "Wikipedia" wherever I go. Coop 14:30, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I think I may have heard this once. It is probably used by non-editors who don't know that wiki is a word itself, but I doubt it is as common as calling it the 'pedia (which is also pretty rare). (It is also to be expected that one would call a wiki, the wiki if the person one is talking to knows which wiki one is referring to; this is just normal English and doesn't warrant a dab page entry.) Wikipedia is usually just called Wikipedia in speech though in informal writing it is often called WP once context has been established (e.g.: after introducing it with Wikipedia (WP) or on Wikipedia talk pages).

I've removed the common and moved these two entries down the page (as they seem pretty rare to me). In fact, as a matter of practicality, they could probably be removed as Wiki includes prominent links to Wikipedia and WikiWikiWeb which users should probably have noticed before even coming here, but I'm not bold enough.

The one that really puzzles me is wiki meaning `searching on Wikipedia'. I've been editing here for years and never come across that usage. I'm commenting that out, as even if someone can find a reference for that (or even just find an example of it), transwikied to Wiktionary as a dictdef.

Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 03:13, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I removed the entry for 'searching in Wikipedia' as a WP:DICDEF/neologism, and the entry for the 'esoteric programming language' as well, which seems of dubious notability at the very least. Anyone who can provide a reference for the programming language is welcome to add it back to the list. Terraxos 23:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)