That's a lot of server storage just for wikis. In 2021, the English Wikipedia contained over 6 million articles and was the 13th most popular website in the world. Wikipedia actually isn't considered an individual wiki, but rather a digital encyclopedia or collection of hundreds of wikis in different languages. The most famous example of a wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia calls itself 'the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.' They're powered by technology known as a wiki engine, or wiki software.

Wikis usually have different pages dedicated to different topics or themes. Accordingly, any user is able to add, edit or remove content. Put simply, a wiki is a website, database or online community that is managed by its users. It's kind of like how Adidas stands for founder Adi Dassler, not All day I dream about sports. A quick search in your web browser will tell you that some identify wiki as an acronym that stands for what I know is or world internet knowledge index, although this was not Cunningham's original intent.

Since Ward Cunningham, the word wiki has taken on many other meanings. Ward Cunningham, the first wiki software developer and inventor of the Wiki Wiki Web in 1995, chose this term because he dubbed his wiki as, 'the simplest online database that could possibly work.' The word wiki means 'quick ' in the Hawaiian language, and the inspiration for the first wiki came from a Honolulu airport bus called the Wiki Wiki Shuttle.

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