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We introduce terms wikis to start all this (the second more nifty part in which e.g. glossaries are generated, will follow later). Terms wikis are simple websites that allow collaborative editing in a browser. They meet the "easy and cheap" criteria, and allows allow 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 any a community of interest or a community of practice 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 TFs. Sometimes one group undertakes multiple projects, and each is worthy of its own terminology. 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. Each scope needs its own terms wiki.
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