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    So What’s a “Wiki”?

    What’s a “wiki”, you wonder? Residents of the Flower City know about the Rochester Wiki, and residents of the entire world know about Wikipedia, but the term that unites them is oftentimes misunderstood. Common rumor has it that “Wiki” is an acronym for “What I Know Is…” While catchy, this is not the origin of the word, and is probably more accurately described as a “backronym”, where an acronym is figured out after a word has come into popular use (similar to how the initialism “RSS” used to stand for “Rich Site Summary” but now is commonly taken to stand for “Really Simple Syndication”). The term “wiki” actually comes from…