wikify
/ˈwɪkifaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To adapt to the standards and facilities of an existing wiki, such as by marking up with wikitext.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "As a starting point, I've wikified an article I wrote a while ago."
- "This is definitely worth wikifying."
- "I added a justification, and tried to "wikify" the entry, which involved adding references and reformatting the text."
- "We don't yet know how blogs will evolve, and it is almost certain that what we will be using in ten years will be very different from what we might be using now––but who will be taking the lead in making sure that these are organized and preserved and described in such a way that we can guide someone to the relevant blog posting or wikified document as readily as we now direct them to a particular journal article?"
- "The Los Angeles Times proved this last week, with its high-minded but ultimately hilarious attempt to 'wikify ' its editorial column."
- "Although he's adamant that NCBI is not going to "wikify" GenBank, Lipman says he's eager to work with mycologists to come up with a solution, possibly through RefSeq."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwiki Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English WikiWikiWebclip. English wiki English -fy English wikify From wiki + -fy.