Mark Williamson wrote:
People say that "Wiki" is derived from the Hawai'ian word wikiwiki.
However, I have an inside source that says that Ward Cunningham got it from an unabridged dictionary. "Wiki" or "Wicky" is from the Anglo-Saxon "wici", which comes from the Proto-Germanic root "*hveik-", which is from the Proto-Indo-European root "*weigh-"
This is because the VIKIngs, descendants of [[Leif Ericson]], when they got fed up with the climate of Newfoundland, quickly went on to populate Hawaii.