navbox

English

Etymology

Shortening of navigation and box.

Pronunciation

• enPR: năv'bäks, IPA^(key): /ˈnæv.bɑks/
• Rhymes: -ævbɑks
• Hyphenation: nav‧box

Noun

navbox (plural navboxes)

1. (Wikimedia jargon) A navigation box; a template placed on a page, outputting a box containing links to other, related articles.

   The editor created a navbox containing links related to football.

   • 2009, Iustin Dornescu, "Semantic QA for Encyclopaedic Questions: EQUAL in GikiCLEF" in Peters, C. et al., Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I: Text Retrieval Experiments, p. 330:

     The general architecture allows for such a constraint to be validated from any source which mentions the two entities, including tables, list pages, navboxes, and perhaps wikified newswire articles [5,6].

   • 2015, Sedigheh Khalatbari, Seyed Mirroshandel, Automatic Construction of Domain Ontology Using Wikipedia and Enhancing it by Google Search Engine, page 252:

     The page analyzer then extracts existing data in Navboxes.

   • 2016, D. Dimitrov, P. Singer, F. Lemmerich, “Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia”, in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, page 27:

     We introduce a novel dataset capturing the visual position of all links between articles of the English Wikipedia (including also templates, infoboxes/sidebars, and navboxes) based on their fine-grained screen coordinates […]

Anagrams

• box van