I have of late been playing around with Tiddlywiki, which is a Javascripted-to-the-max, standalone (no server), OS independent wiki - it's written purely in HTML, Javascript and CSS, and saves the entries in the file itself. It has a considerable aesthetic advantage over the one big text file (it was in one of the comments to this network of posts that I saw TiddlyWiki mentioned). Here's a particularly classy example of its use by a philosophy lecturer.

TiddyWiki and a copy of Cross-platform Portable Firefox on a USB drive gives me a micro database that can be moved from Macs to Windows boxes at will. It works fairly well, if you don't try to challenge it as I did by going cross-platform and throwing in Citrix.

Initially I wondered how people could put them out on public servers without them being vandalized, since it's possible to hide the edit function, but not from someone who knows where to look to turn it on again. But it dawned on me that on a properly configured webserver, sure someone can get into the edit box but they can't SAVE their edits - they don't have the permissions to write to the server. So the webpage can be edited locally by the author and uploaded to the server.
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