Wiki Word

Wiki Word:
A Wiki Case "word" which identifies and links Wiki Pages. It is an amalgamation of two or more words composed of at least two letters each, without intervening white spaces, where the first letter of each component word is capitalized and the remaining letters are in lowercase.

An equivalent term, Wiki Name, is taken to mean the same. (Note: this definition of Wiki Word/Wiki Name is specific to this wiki. Another wiki may use differing definitions and implementations.)

The enormous power of Wiki Words is that they function as words. That allows you to frame very complex statements in a very concise language, and to say things whose subtext can be supplied and altered communally, and non-locally in time. This makes explicit a key attribute of Universal Mind.


See the Wiki Vocabulary for explanations of Wiki Words having specific Wiki meanings. It explains the various nuances of meaning that apply within the Wiki. This vocabulary of Wiki Words that are distinctively applicable to this Wiki is easily acquired by a newcomer.


Six Single Quotes can be used to prevent a mixed case set of concatenated letters being treated as a WikiWord. Most useful for plural Wiki Words.


What "word" can be used to talk about the parts (e.g. "Wiki" and "Word") of a Wiki Word?

How about Wikeme for a component part of a Wiki Word? - cf phoneme, morpheme and Stephen Pinker's listeme.

why not WikiAdjective and WikiNoun?

Actually WikiPhrase is part of Wiki Way


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