From artists to spies, more going wiki on Web - The Boston Globe

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Buoyed by the growth of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the wiki model of shared writing and editing is spreading into surprising new realms, from accounting, real estate, and academic research to cake design and even intelligence gathering.

"Wikis are finally becoming mainstream," said Newton technology pioneer Dan Bricklin , who plans to release WikiCalc, a next-generation spreadsheet that lets multiple users simultaneously log and update numbers via the Internet, by the end of November.

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