Wiki is not a dictionary
It would increase the limitation that "the text is a description of the words in the title"
Dictionary headwords have more noun forms than the actual frequency of occurrence
Wikipedia is a service designed to create an encyclopedia
It became very visible due to its great success.
Some people even call Wikipedia a Wiki.
But that one has a strong restriction on the content: "appropriate as an encyclopedia article.
Clear constraints on the cooperation of an unspecified number of people would have been useful.
If you assume that a wiki is meant to be used like Wikipedia, you're needlessly putting yourself in a position of constraint.
A personal wiki is something you create for your future self to enjoy reading.
The "page title" should be something that triggers the desire to read. Writing dictionary-like explanations for words I already know is not fun for me to read.
If you keep it public, it sometimes gets mentioned on social networking sites (Social Triggers). I'll read it back to myself then.
Reading it again after a period of time allows you to view it from a different perspective
Rewrite immediately, rewrite expressions or add new ideas
This is how content grows.
Maybe not when you're using it in a groupware kind of way.
2021-08-27 Then Scrapbox created by mitoujr2021 made a rather large number of word description pages. Writing a dictionary-like explanation for a word I already know is not enjoyable for me to read.
It is better for me to write a one-line explanation of a word that I know but that other members may not know, than for each of them to Google the word and read the official website to understand what it means.
Less information, with a link to the official website
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