This page describes an approach to creating and maintaining scope-specific terminology glossaries using GitHub wikis. This approach is being developed by the Concepts and Terminology WG (CTWG) to satisfy the need for any ToIP-related glossary community—any group forming a community of interest or a community of practice—to have an easy, human-friendly way to document and manage the terms they need to share in order to communicate effectively both within their community and outside of it.
This definition of a wiki is from the best know wiki in the world, Wikipedia:
A wiki (/ˈwɪki/ (listen) WIK-ee) is a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project and could be either open to the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base.
The basic idea of a glossary wiki is simply a wiki whose scope is a specific set of terms defined by a specific glossary community that, taken together, form a glossary for that community.
There are several reasons the CTWG chose GitHub to host our glossary wiki capability: