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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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Summary

civil disobedience ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,408 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: civil resistance[2], protest[3]
  • Commons category: Civil disobedience[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Civil disobedience[5]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory[6]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[7]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Politics[8], WikiProject Nonviolence[9]

Why It Matters

civil disobedience has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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

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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. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 418no7
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → civil-disobedience
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: civil-disobedience, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289923829|civil disobedience (#289923829)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003937-obcanska-neposlusnost
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003937-obcanska-neposlusnost, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  4. 21w 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 */ Yso id: 2643, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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