riot

Summary

riot ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (935 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• riot is a type of civil disorder^[2].
• riot is a type of protest^[3].
• riot is a type of social movement^[4].
• riot's Commons category is recorded as Riots^[5].
• riot's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Riots^[6].
• riot's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[7].
• riot's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[8].
• riot's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[9].
• riot's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• riot's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• riot's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[12].
• riot's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[13].
• riot's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[14].
• riot's different from is recorded as insurgency^[15].
• riot's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[16].
• riot's category for eponymous categories is recorded as Category:Wikipedia categories named after riots^[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include civil disorder^[2], protest^[3], and social movement^[4].

Influence

Things named for riot include Pussy Riot^[18], a rock band^[19], in Russia^[20], founded in 2011^[21]; Unicorn Riot^[22], a news agency^[23], in United States^[24], founded in 2015^[25], headquartered in Minneapolis^[26]; and Llibreria Aldarull^[27], a bookstore^[28], in Spain^[29], founded in 2009^[30].

Why It Matters

riot ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (935 views/month).^[1] riot has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[31] riot is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[32]

Entities named for riot include Pussy Riot^[18], a rock band^[19], in Russia^[20], founded in 2011^[21]; Unicorn Riot^[22], a news agency^[23], in United States^[24], founded in 2015^[25], headquartered in Minneapolis^[26]; and Llibreria Aldarull^[27], a bookstore^[28], in Spain^[29], founded in 2009^[30].