This is a very interesting question that has also bothered me for quite long. The term was used by Ward Cunningham to name first wiki because of the distinct f

This is a very interesting question that has also bothered me for quite long. The term was used by Ward Cunningham to name first wiki because of the distinct feature that allowed users to perform quick edits. He borrowed the term wiki from a quick airport shuttle bus in Hawaii. I think wikiwiki means quick in Hawaiian. After trying many options throughout the years to host my own personal wiki, I have settled down on plain text files written in org, that satisfy certain conventions. For a personal wiki, quick edits are a bit pointless since there's just one user. If you go for plain text files, everything is easy to edit and you can get many other perks like version control. Most relevant ideas for a personal wiki can be borrowed from Zettelkasten, which is exactly that. A personal knowledge base.