Glossary and ReferenceIndex
Correction (2026-08-04): superseded a legacy MOC page (slug: _index, type: reference, no index_type/index_scope) that listed only 10 of this category's 23
real articles — 13 were never added as the category grew. This is the same content
rebuilt against the Index Topic mechanism, with every current article included.
Resolved, not silently dropped — the legacy page's own 2 sections that no longer
apply (BIM/real-property reference, since that content moved to the projects wiki;
the 2 wikilinks now pointing to categories rather than articles) are not carried
forward, since both were already stale pointers, not real content.
Reference material on this platform serves two different needs: a reader who wants one term defined precisely, and a reader who wants to understand the vocabulary well enough to read everything else in this wiki without stumbling. Both needs live here — general computing concepts defined in plain language, the full platform glossary, orientation for a reader who hasn't picked a starting point yet, and the standards this wiki itself is written to.
Start here: PointSav encyclopedia — glossary and lexicon — the canonical A-to-Z definition of every platform-specific term, the page most other articles link to on first use.
Platform orientation
- Getting started with the PointSav platform — what the platform is, who it's for, and where to go first
- PointSav encyclopedia — glossary and lexicon — the canonical term-by-term definition source
- How this knowledge base is organized — a reader's map of all thirteen documentation-wiki areas
- Developer guide index — every how-to guide, grouped by developer concern
- Hardware reference — reference hardware profiles for workstations and fleet devices
- SLM operationalization plan — the plan for moving from external model calls to a per-tenant local model
General computing concepts
- Application programming interface — how software systems communicate through a defined set of calls
- Computer appliance — hardware and software sealed together for one well-defined function
- Edge computing — placing computation near the data it operates on, rather than in a central data center
- Fog computing — the layer of compute and storage between edge devices and the cloud
- Just enough operating system — reducing the OS to only what a specific application needs
- Lightweight linux distribution — Linux builds engineered for far less RAM and CPU than a full distribution
- Virtual appliance — a pre-configured VM image combining a minimal OS with one application
- Security through obscurity — why secrecy of design is not treated as a security mechanism here
- User experience design — the discipline covering every aspect of a user's interaction with a product
- User interface design — designing the human-machine interface itself, governed by ISO 9241
Editorial and publishing standards
- Editorial language registers — the three prose registers this wiki writes in, matched to audience
- Editorial philosophy — why every article teaches understanding rather than just retrieving facts
- News release typography and layout standards — formatting rules for corporate news syndication
- Preprint notice — what the mandatory notice on a working research paper actually means
- Root files discipline — the canonical, enumerated set of files every repository root keeps
- Structural positioning — how this platform differentiates without naming competitors
- Wiki provider landscape — a structural audit of why no existing provider has closed Wikipedia's gap
What this is not
This page is not itself a definition source — for a specific term, go to the glossary directly rather than searching this list. It is not exhaustive of every reference-shaped fact in the wiki: architectural definitions live with their subject (substrate/, security/), not here. It does not distinguish platform-specific from general-computing terms visually — both live in this category because a reader consulting one is often also consulting the other.
See also
- How It's Built — where architectural terms are defined in context, not just listed
- Building Blocks — the reusable mechanisms this wiki's vocabulary describes
- How You Run It — procedural guides that assume this vocabulary