A RetroWiki is the simplest possible implementation of the wiki idea. Much simpler than the first WikiWikiWeb:
- (1) any page name given in the url displays the page (maybe empty, if the page doesn't exist - this is pretty standard)
- (2) prefix the pagename with "edit=" in the command line to edit it.
- (3) do minimal or no markup interpretation.
This is little more than a technical demonstration on its own (as on MetaBaby), but it may be useful on some selected pages within a normal wiki:
- (1) to add freely designed pages
- (2) in learning and teaching HTML and CSS technologies
Examples:
- http://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?MattisManzel/HtmlTest
- http://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?edit=MattisManzel/HtmlTest (edit the page)
- http://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?MattisManzel/HtmlTest/Context (configuration)
By the way, the example above does no markup interpretation, but it adds body, head, html and !DOCTYPE tags, if they are missing in a sensible way.