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Wiki vs Readme - What's the difference?

wiki | readme |

As a proper noun wiki

is (proscribed) wikipedia.

As a noun readme is

(computing) a text file meant to be read before taking any significant action with the items it accompanies.

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.
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  • * '>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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    readme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A text file meant to be read before taking any significant action with the items it accompanies.
  • * 2004 , Barbara Matthews, John Stouffer, Karen Brownfield, Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle Applications III
    • Remember, there may be many readmes in many different locations within the patch itself. Search and read all readmes before proceeding.

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