navbox

nav·box
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/ˈnæv.bɑks/

noun

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.”

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounnavbox (plural navboxes)

plural navboxes

  1. wiki jargonA 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.

    3 more examples

    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].

    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 page analyzer then extracts existing data in Navboxes.

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

    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 […]

    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

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