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civil disobedience

active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power
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civil disobedience

Summary

civil disobedience ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,495 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • civil disobedience is a type of civil resistance[2].
  • civil disobedience is a type of protest[3].
  • civil disobedience's Commons category is recorded as Civil disobedience[4].
  • civil disobedience's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Civil disobedience[5].
  • civil disobedience's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Political Theory[6].
  • civil disobedience's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[7].
  • civil disobedience's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Politics[8].
  • civil disobedience's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Nonviolence[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include civil resistance[2] and protest[3].

Why It Matters

civil disobedience ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,495 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Politics, WikiProject Nonviolence
    Subclass of → civil resistance, protest
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2643, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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