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• A cheap and easy way to define and curate the terms they need as a group, with minimal setup and learning curve.
• The ability to formally release versioned glossaries that show how terms are related, provide attribution to sources, and cross-reference terms to increase comprehension and accessibility of the group's work. Glossaries will include terms that the group needs, both terms defined by the group itself, or elsewhere.

To meet the first this need, the CTWG is introducing terms wikis (the second need, for generating rich glossaries, will follow later). Terms wikis are simple websites that allow collaborative editing in a browser. They meet the "easy and cheap" criteria while allowing some sophisticated features under the hood. Think Google Docs, but with slightly more structure – or Wikipedia, but a whole lot simpler. You can learn how to use them in 5 minutes.

A terms wiki is owned by a community of interest or a community of practice that  (a terms community) that needs precise alignment about its mental models and the words that describe them (a terminology). In TOIP, these groups typically correspond to WGs or TFsa terms community typically corresponds to a Working Group or a Task Force. However our terms wiki tooling can also be used by groups outside of ToIP that wish to join our overall terminology community. Sometimes a single group needs to undertake multiple projects where each requires its own terminology. That's fine too. Whenever a terminology is internally cohesive and managed by a crisply delineated set of stakeholders, we call the context in which it lives a scope. Every scope needs  needs a glossary that lists the set of terms pertinent to that scope (i.e. its terminology), as well as its own terms wiki that contains the definitions of the terms that are specific to this scope.

The following diagram illustrates the relationship between terms wikis and glossaries based on them.

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How to use a terms wiki

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