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I don't get it. This is not a wiki. A wiki is a collaboration tool with fast reads and searches and slow writes. This is a simple static site generator, such as jekyll/hugo/..., just without the automatic updates, filewatch or http save triggers. Those generators have all these features, and much more.

To turn this into wiki, add a js library to allow editing and saves (=> tiddlywiki), and maybe think of markdown javascript renderers (=> reveal-md)

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Yet, it feels like a personal wiki to me. :)

I think that a focus on low level tools (javascript), or on current and common implementations as the definition of wiki, is unnecessarily restrictive.

I was going to "count the ways" that Miki can be considered a personal wiki. It doesn't much matter. It works for me, and I hope maybe a few others.

Instead, I'll propose that Miki, and other tools like it, are in the realm of personal wiki, in a similar way that Unix is an IDE. https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/

That's what an easy to edit personal website feels like.

> low level tools (javascript)

Sincerely confused by this parenthetical statement.

rurban, my parent, says "to turn this into a wiki" and then lists javascript for on-page editing and markdown rendering. That's one way to get it done, of course.

But for sitting on the couch with your wiki totally contained on your lap in your laptop, editing in a text editor is a reasonable solution to "edit this page."

"Render markdown" from the command line is also a reasonable solution in that (my) scenario.

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