Last Updated on: 10th June 2025, 12:06 pm
Web site: ww.softwaregarden.com/products/wikicalc/
Category: Network
Subcategory: Wiki
Platform: Cross-platform
License: GNU GPL
Interface: Web-interface
Wikipedia: wikiCalc
First release: 2005
wikiCalc – a web application created by Daniel Bricklin. It acts as a spreadsheet for the Wiki interface.
The wikiCalc program lets you make web pages with more than just paragraphs of prose. It combines the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and calculating metaphor of a spreadsheet.
wikiCalc is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
The first version of wikiCalc 0.1 was created in 2005, after alpha testing it was used commercially for personal computers. The official first version of wikiCalc 1.0 written in Perl was created on January 25, 2007.
The familiar and robust spreadsheet functionality includes:
– A grid of columns and rows of cells identified as A1, B7, etc.
– Cells containing numeric values, dates and times, strings of text characters, and error and #N/A values
– Formulas with access to over 100 built-in functions including SUM, DSUM, IRR, and IF
– References in formulas that can refer to cell contents in other pages
– Control of the formatting of numeric data including a wide range of currency and date forms as well as custom formats
– Cell and table formatting including font, color, borders, alignment, padding, merged cells, and column width
– Optional hidden cells, rows, and columns
– Commands such as fill, sort, copy, paste, erase, insert/delete rows and columns, and recalculation control
– Import and export with CSV and Tab-delimited text, and other formats
– User interface controlled by either keyboard or mouse clicks
The program works with the status of freeware and under the GNU General Public License.
Based on this program, a similar web application SocialCalc was released.
