I have been working on a Glossary section for the https://discourse.igkt.net/ forum, and did it this way:
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Create a category for Glossary entries (in my case #glossary)
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Start to create Glossary Topics, in my case I’ve created one Topic per concept in the Glossary, but another way to do this would be use fewer Topics, and use Markdown headings so you can use anchor-style links to them. Anything that has a unique link will work.
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Use the built-in Watched Words feature to Link the glossary word (and any synonyms) to the relevant Topic. (sadly this has to be done manually, unless I come up with an automation for it)
This is a new feature for that forum so feedback will, I’m sure, be forthcoming as to whether it is useful and we get enough glossary coverage, and whether it interferes with the user’s ability to add their own links to these words.
Would love to hear from others who have implemented a Glossary and hear how they did it.