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navigation

process of monitoring and directing the movement of a person, craft or vehicle from one place to another
Intangible academic_discipline Q102066
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Summary

navigation is an academic discipline[1]. navigation ranks in the top 10% of academic discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,766 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: field of study[3]
  • Subclass of: skill[4], intentional human activity[5]
  • Commons category: Navigation[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Navigation[7]
  • Commons gallery: Navigation[8]
  • Facet of: travel[9], transport[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15]
  • Practiced by: navigator[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

Why It Matters

navigation has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] navigation is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi Andrey V. Savkin autonomous navigation Gaia GPS Henry Hudson MapaMap Matthew Flinders Navigo Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses Pierre Bouguer

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q319447
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q319447, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → navigation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: navigation, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952042|navigation (#289952042)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1gb862
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 15w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → navigacija
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: navigacija"
  5. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 4356
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 4356, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107286508|navigation (#107286508)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Class"
  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007644-navigace
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007644-navigace, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Facet of → travel, transport
    Topic's main category → Category:Navigation
    Practiced by → navigator
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 2050, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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