wikification

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noun

The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounwikification (usually uncountable, plural wikifications)

plural wikifications

  1. uncountableusuallyThe process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
  2. uncountableusuallychiefly Wikimedia jargonThe automated process of adding links to Wikipedia (or another wiki) to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).

    3 Query Wikification The process of automatically recognizing the topics mentioned in an unstructured text and linking them to the appropriate Wikipedia [6] articles is known as wikification. Two Wikification method[s] have been proposed by now.

    2009–10, Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Fariborz Mahmoudi, Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Meta-language Index Construction and Structural Queries, in Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I, page 73
    2 more examples

    Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about the corresponding keyphrase. ¶ Text wikification is performed in two steps. […]

    2007, Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea, “Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge”, in Rosemary Luckin et al., editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 558

    This task will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. […] Wikification is a useful process in itself, […]

    2009, Ian H. Witten, abstract of the presentation “Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base”, in Shlomo Geva et al. (editors), Focused Retrieval and Evaluation (INEX 2009 workshop proceedings), Springer (2010), page 3

Origin

  1. Proto-Polynesian*witi
  2. Hawaiianwiki
  3. Hawaiianwikiwiki
  4. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  5. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  6. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  7. Old Englishwebb
  8. Middle Englishweb
  9. Englishweb
  10. EnglishWikiWikiWebclip.
  11. Englishwiki
  12. Englishwikification

From wiki + -ification.

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Translations

Bulgarian уикифика́ция
  • уикифика́ция (uikifikácija)the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Chinese Cantonese 維基化 /维基化
  • 維基化 /维基化 (wai⁴ gei¹ faa³)the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Chinese Mandarin 維基化 /维基化
  • 維基化 /维基化 (wéijīhuà)the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
French wikification
  • wikificationthe process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
German Wikifizierung
  • Wikifizierungthe process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Greek βικιποίηση
  • βικιποίηση (vikipoíisi)the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Italian wikificazione
  • wikificazionethe process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Japanese ウィキ化
  • ウィキ化 (wiki-ka)the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Korean 위키화
  • 위키화 (wikihwa)the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Portuguese wikificação
  • wikificaçãothe process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Russian викифика́ция
  • викифика́ция (vikifikácija)the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Spanish wikificación
  • wikificaciónthe process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Ukrainian вікіфіка́ція
  • вікіфіка́ція (vikifikácija)the process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform
Cite this entry
APA

wikification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wikification

MLA

“wikification.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wikification. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wikification,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wikification.

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