A desktop Wiki editor/viewer: is there anything out there?

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I'm a big user of wikis, mainly Dokuwiki, I really like the clarity and ease of use of simple text files. However all good wikis seem to require a web-server of some kind; has anyone come across a good desktop wiki editor/viewer that work with plain-text files, and allow me to work with wiki text files just like any other document file type (note: not a desktop wiki running inside a local webserver)

Before you rush to suggest (I hope!) I have done months of research on this and have tried Wixi, Wikidpad, zulupad....

Any ideas anyone?

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