I'd love to use something like wikipedia to create note about stuff and link to other note like wikipedia does. I know that you can manhandle it into working on your local machine but I would rather have a standalone program that does something similar. Is there such a thing?
If you only want it for personal use, limited scale (e.g. a project) then consider tiddlywiki.
https://tiddlywiki.com/ Lightweight, e.g. revision control is creating a new single HTML file containing the entire wiki.
"TiddlyWiki is a personal wiki and a non-linear notebook for organising and sharing complex information. It is an open-source single page application wiki in the form of a single HTML file that includes CSS, JavaScript, and the content. It is designed to be easy to customize and re-shape depending on application. It facilitates re-use of content by dividing it into small pieces called Tiddlers."