Help:Glossary
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	• srodlund
	Sep 25 2019, 5:14 PM

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The https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Glossary provides users with definitions for some commonly used words and phrases used by WMCS.

This page needs to be on a review cycle to be updated and reviewed on a regular basis.
This page should be linked from prominent / frequently visited pages on Wikitech

Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T203131 Update and Improve Toolforge and Cloud VPS Technical Documentation
Open	None	T230440 Update Toolforge and Cloud VPS Help pages
Open	TBurmeister	T233829 Regular updates to: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Glossary

This page has bee restructured and improved. Resolving for now. Page should be revisited on a regular basis to maintain and add new terms.

• srodlund triaged this task as Lowest priority.May 11 2020, 8:28 PM

• srodlund set Due Date to May 11 2021, 7:00 AM.

• srodlund updated the task description. (Show Details)

Terms to add / update as of Dec 2022:

Split these terms into conceptually-related units or make this page entirely navigable by alphabetical order.

TBurmeister added a subscriber: nskaggs.

Also, clarify the difference between "instance" (VM) and "database instance", which is that they're called in the Trove implementation

Align definitions in Glossary page with definitions on component and overview pages, i.e.:

Even better: figure out a coherent way of single-sourcing these definitions and transcluding them in all these places.