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Wiki vs Competency - What's the difference?

wiki | competency |

As a proper noun wiki

is (proscribed) wikipedia.

As a noun competency is

(obsolete) a sufficient supply (of).

wiki

English

(wikipedia wiki)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

    • Derived terms

    * interwiki

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
    • To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
  • *
  • * '>citation
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  • To conduct research on a wiki.
  • To contribute to a wiki.
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  • To participate in the wiki-based production of.
  • * '>citation

    • Derived terms

    * wikify * wikiholic * wikilink * The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, ), (WikiLeaks), (Wikibooks), (Wikimedia Foundation).

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    competency

    English

    Noun

    (competencies)
  • (obsolete) A sufficient supply (of).
  • * 1612 , John Smith, Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 178:
    • the next day they returned unsuspected, leaving their confederates to follow, and in the interim, to convay them a competencie of all things they could
  • * (Ambrose Bierce)
  • (obsolete) A sustainable income.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
  • * 1915 , :
    • He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. He knew that the lack made a man petty, mean, grasping; it distorted his character and caused him to view the world from a vulgar angle; when you had to consider every penny, money became of grotesque importance: you needed a competency to rate it at its proper value.
  • The ability to perform some task; competence.
  • * Burke
    • The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause.
  • * 2004 , Bill Clinton, My Life
    • By the year 2000, American students will leave grades four, eight, and twelve having demonstrated competency in challenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, history, and geography....
  • (legal) Meeting specified qualifications to perform.
  • (linguistics) implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.

    • Synonyms

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