> I do not think of my Obsidian or Notion instances as "wikis" Because they're not. There's a weird thing that happened with the word "wiki" where wikis appea

> I do not think of my Obsidian or Notion instances as "wikis" Because they're not. There's a weird thing that happened with the word "wiki" where wikis appeared, and then a project came along with the purpose of using a wiki build an encyclopedia, and then people who were confused about which aspect exactly is what made it a wiki vs what it was about it that made it an encyclopedia decided to start going around referring to all sorts of things that couldn't remotely be described as a wiki (but could loosely be described as an "encyclopedia of <X>") as a wiki, anyway. Previously: > These people are not building a personal wiki—they're building a personal _encyclopedia_. That's what they're doing. An "encyclopedia of me"[...] It's like if you lived your whole life in a part of the world where iced coffee isn't consumed (and other types of coffee only rarely), then when it's introduced to your people it's to great fanfare, and for no good reason a subset of your countrymen start calling all sorts of unrelated things "ice", whether ice is involved or not. Their sole motivation? The thing they're referring to is a coffee product. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816853>