Design/Archive/Wikimedia User Interface/Analysis/Navbox

Observations

 * Rows in navboxes are a series of 'relation data'. Much as wikidata has "parent of" "followed by", "owned by", "produced by", "part of" etc relations between subjects/topics.
 * The navbox template is a 'view' on top of this relation data that allows a select set of readers and a large set of curators/editors to easily travers this relation data (and often that of it's siblings/parents/children at the same time).
 * Many of such relations are also grouped as categories on Wiki's.
 * A navbox groups these sets of relations into a higher level topic.
 * A stack of navboxes represents multiple higher level 'first degree' topics of the article in question
 * navboxes are bi-directional. Every article linked from inside a navbox links back to the article on which you are using the navbox
 * navboxes are a structured interface for Related articles
 * navboxes are both content (summary of relations) and interface elements
 * they encourage exploration
 * they prevent noise (too many links to only tangibly related articles) in the article body
 * a series can only be part of a navbox if all articles within the series (and all it's cousin links?) are 'notable'. Branches, not leaves makes navboxes ?

Related concepts

 * Succession-box (mostly deprecated)
 * Sidebars (portrait/vertical navboves)