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Kiwi

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ5574340
Source-derived summary

Kiwi most commonly refers to:

Kiwi (bird), a flightless bird native to New Zealand

Kiwi (nickname), an informal name for New Zealanders

Kiwifruit, an edible hairy fruit with many seeds

Kiwi dollar or New Zealand dollar, a unit of currency

Kiwi or KIWI may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

Kiwi Blitz, a 2009 webcomic by Mary Cagle

Music

Kiwi (band), a girl group from Mongolia

"Kiwi" (song), 2017, by Harry Styles

"Kiwi", a 2007 song by Maroon 5 from It Won't Be Soon Before Long

Radio and film

KIWI, a radio station in California, U.S., currently branded as Radio Lobo

Kiwi FM, a New Zealand radio network

Kiwi!, a 2006 short animated film

Science and technology

.kiwi, an Internet top-level domain

KIWI (openSUSE), image software

KIWI, a testbed prototype of the nuclear thermal rocket

Kiwi Farms, an Internet forum

Kiwi IRC, an Internet Relay Chat software client

Kiwi vacuum extractor, a device to assist delivery of a baby

Ships

HMNZS Kiwi, several ships

HMNZS Kiwi (T102), a minesweeper commissioned in 1941

HMNZS Kiwi (P3554), a patrol boat commissioned in 1983

Sports

Kiwi (horse) (1977–1995), a thoroughbred racehorse

Kiwis (rugby league), the New Zealand national rugby league team

Kiwi FC or Vailima Kiwi FC, a Samoan football club

Kiwi Soccers, an American Samoan football club

Travel

Kiwi.com, a Czech online travel agency

Kiwi International Air Lines, an American airline 1992–1999

Kiwi Regional Airlines, a New Zealand airline 2015–2016

Kiwi Travel International Airlines, a 1990s New Zealand airline

Wiscasset Airport (ICAO code: KIWI), US

People with the given name

Kiwi Camara (born 1984), Filipino American attorney

Kiwi Chow (born 1979), Hong Kong filmmaker

Kiwi Gardner (born 1993), American basketball player

Kiwi Kingston (1914–1992), New Zealand wrestler and film actor

Kiwi Searancke (born c.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kiwi” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2017, 2007, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kiwi, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5574340. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2017, 2007 and 2006.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kiwi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kiwi primary sources, Kiwi archive and Kiwi research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kiwi”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Kiwi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.