Wiki vs Instead - What's the difference?
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A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.
To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
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To conduct research on a wiki.
To contribute to a wiki.
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To participate in the wiki-based production of.
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In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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As a proper noun wiki
is (proscribed) wikipedia.As an adverb instead is
in the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.wiki
English
(wikipedia wiki)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* interwikiVerb
(en verb)- To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
Derived terms
* wikify * wikiholic * wikilink * The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, ), (WikiLeaks), (Wikibooks), (Wikimedia Foundation).References
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Alternative forms
* ensteadAdverb
(-)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}