corruption

form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one's private gain
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corruption

Summary

corruption ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,637 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • corruption is a type of wrongdoing[2].
  • corruption is a type of violation of law[3].
  • corruption is a type of crime[4].
  • corruption is part of abuse[5].
  • corruption's Commons category is recorded as Corruption[6].
  • corruption is the opposite of anti-corruption[7].
  • corruption comprises political corruption[8].
  • corruption comprises police corruption[9].
  • corruption comprises judicial corruption[10].
  • corruption's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Corruption[11].
  • corruption's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[12].
  • corruption's described by source is recorded as Red Blue Translator[13].
  • corruption's topic has template is recorded as Template:Corruption[14].
  • corruption's has characteristic is recorded as evil[15].
  • corruption's manifestation of is recorded as governance failure[16].
  • corruption's different from is recorded as bribery[17].
  • corruption's has part is recorded as abuse of power[18].
  • corruption's has part is recorded as bribery[19].
  • corruption's has part is recorded as embezzlement[20].
  • corruption's has part is recorded as nepotism[21].
  • corruption's has part is recorded as cronyism[22].
  • corruption's practiced by is recorded as فاسد[23].
  • corruption's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • corruption's copyright status is recorded as public domain[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include wrongdoing[2], violation of law[3], and crime[4]. corruption is the opposite of anti-corruption[7].

Use and Application

Components include political corruption[8], police corruption[9], and judicial corruption[10]. corruption is part of abuse[5].

Influence

Things named for corruption include Corruption[26], a film[27], directed by Robert Hartford-Davis[28] and Corruption of Champions II[29], a video game[30].

Why It Matters

corruption ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,637 views/month).[1] corruption has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] corruption is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for corruption include Corruption[26], a film[27], directed by Robert Hartford-Davis[28] and Corruption of Champions II[29], a video game[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Peter F. Patel-Schneider · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → wrongdoing, violation of law, crime
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q1975478]]"
  2. 4w ago · Reinheitsgebot bot · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Copyright status → public domain
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P6216]]: [[Q19652]], #quickstatements; WikiFlix C1: pre-1900 film, PD by age; invoked by wikiflix"
  3. 7w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 00160216-n
    Interlingual index id → i36249
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47800|batch #47800]]"
  4. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → corruption
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: corruption, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289917557|corruption (#289917557)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003335-korupce
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0003335-korupce, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  6. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 329, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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