Wiki comes originally from the Maori word for "Quick" or "Fast"...

it is used to describe any collection of web-based pages that are related to a particular subject and are open to easy editing by users. Perhaps the best known example is the internet-based encyclopaedia, www.wikipedia.org/. There are problems with web-based Wiki's such as this, in that there is little control over the quality of information put into them, and this manualization uses a new technology to get around this so that there are "valves" applied to what content can and cannot be altered. Crucially, the Tiddlymanual is not a web-based application, but a document that can live on a server, a hard disk, a USB stick, etc, rather than being open to the world.

The format of this TiddlyManual is an adaptation of this Wiki format, and the software underpinning this novel format is called TiddlyWiki.