On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Jerry Friedman wrote: #Thank you and thanks to Chris Olson. Someone had already corrected #the page by the time I got there. But "Wikipedia" comes from a word #meaning "quick", I gather. "Wiki wiki" means "fast" in the Hawaiian language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel