Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience - active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Article “Civil disobedience” in English Wikipedia has 83.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 101 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Civil disobedience”, its content was written by 654 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2425 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2525 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10283 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1024 in January 2003
• Global: #357 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12734 in November 2014
• Global: #10564 in March 2019

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Ziviler Ungehorsam		90.9123
2	English (en) Civil disobedience		83.401
3	Russian (ru) Гражданское неповиновение		60.5378
4	Catalan (ca) Desobediència civil		59.1163
5	Chinese (zh) 公民不服從		53.7978
6	French (fr) Désobéissance civile		52.3253
7	Armenian (hy) Քաղաքացիական անհնազանդություն		46.0272
8	Spanish (es) Desobediencia civil		35.2667
9	Hebrew (he) מרי אזרחי		34.7288
10	Finnish (fi) Kansalaistottelemattomuus		34.5294

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Civil disobedience" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Civil disobedience		7 162 898
2	Spanish (es) Desobediencia civil		1 265 596
3	French (fr) Désobéissance civile		1 035 366
4	German (de) Ziviler Ungehorsam		1 004 929
5	Polish (pl) Obywatelskie nieposłuszeństwo		666 201
6	Chinese (zh) 公民不服從		634 779
7	Arabic (ar) عصيان مدني		528 859
8	Portuguese (pt) Desobediência civil		473 658
9	Swedish (sv) Civil olydnad		236 418
10	Italian (it) Disobbedienza civile		216 485

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Civil disobedience" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Civil disobedience		7 541
2	Spanish (es) Desobediencia civil		1 690
3	German (de) Ziviler Ungehorsam		1 616
4	French (fr) Désobéissance civile		1 450
5	Chinese (zh) 公民不服從		1 062
6	Persian (fa) نافرمانی مدنی		861
7	Japanese (ja) 市民的不服従		562
8	Russian (ru) Гражданское неповиновение		532
9	Korean (ko) 시민 불복종		473
10	Polish (pl) Obywatelskie nieposłuszeństwo		343

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Civil disobedience" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Civil disobedience		654
2	German (de) Ziviler Ungehorsam		274
3	French (fr) Désobéissance civile		266
4	Spanish (es) Desobediencia civil		114
5	Chinese (zh) 公民不服從		100
6	Polish (pl) Obywatelskie nieposłuszeństwo		94
7	Swedish (sv) Civil olydnad		63
8	Hebrew (he) מרי אזרחי		55
9	Portuguese (pt) Desobediência civil		54
10	Persian (fa) نافرمانی مدنی		53

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Civil disobedience" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) عصيان مدني		2
2	German (de) Ziviler Ungehorsam		2
3	French (fr) Désobéissance civile		2
4	Catalan (ca) Desobediència civil		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Civila malobeo		1
6	Basque (eu) Desobedientzia zibil		1
7	Serbian (sr) Грађанска непослушност		1
8	Chinese (zh) 公民不服從		1
9	Belarusian (be) Грамадзянскае непадпарадкаванне		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Гражданско неподчинение		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Civil disobedience" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Civil disobedience		2 525
2	French (fr) Désobéissance civile		794
3	Chinese (zh) 公民不服從		669
4	Arabic (ar) عصيان مدني		660
5	Persian (fa) نافرمانی مدنی		504
6	Russian (ru) Гражданское неповиновение		426
7	Portuguese (pt) Desobediência civil		411
8	German (de) Ziviler Ungehorsam		392
9	Spanish (es) Desobediencia civil		381
10	Japanese (ja) 市民的不服従		276

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عصيان مدني
be	Belarusian Грамадзянскае непадпарадкаванне
bg	Bulgarian Гражданско неподчинение
ca	Catalan Desobediència civil
cs	Czech Občanská neposlušnost
da	Danish Civil ulydighed
de	German Ziviler Ungehorsam
el	Greek Πολιτική ανυπακοή
en	English Civil disobedience
eo	Esperanto Civila malobeo
es	Spanish Desobediencia civil
et	Estonian Kodanikuallumatus
eu	Basque Desobedientzia zibil
fa	Persian نافرمانی مدنی
fi	Finnish Kansalaistottelemattomuus
fr	French Désobéissance civile
gl	Galician Desobediencia civil
he	Hebrew מרי אזרחי
hi	Hindi नागरिक अवज्ञा
hr	Croatian Građanski neposluh
hu	Hungarian Polgári engedetlenség
hy	Armenian Քաղաքացիական անհնազանդություն
id	Indonesian Pembangkangan sipil
it	Italian Disobbedienza civile
ja	Japanese 市民的不服従
ka	Georgian სამოქალაქო დაუმორჩილებლობა
kk	Kazakh Азаматтық бағынбаушылық
ko	Korean 시민 불복종
lt	Lithuanian Pilietinis nepaklusnumas
ms	Malay Keingkaran awam
nl	Dutch Burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid
no	Norwegian Sivil ulydighet
pl	Polish Obywatelskie nieposłuszeństwo
pt	Portuguese Desobediência civil
ro	Romanian Nesupunere civică
ru	Russian Гражданское неповиновение
sh	Serbo-Croatian Građanska neposlušnost
simple	Simple English Civil disobedience
sk	Slovak Občianska neposlušnosť
sl	Slovenian Državljanska nepokorščina
sr	Serbian Грађанска непослушност
sv	Swedish Civil olydnad
ta	Tamil குடியியற் சட்டமறுப்பு
th	Thai การดื้อแพ่ง
tr	Turkish Sivil itaatsizlik
uk	Ukrainian Громадянська непокора
ur	Urdu سول نافرمانی
vi	Vietnamese Bất tuân dân sự
zh	Chinese 公民不服從
zhminnan	Min Nan Kong-bîn put ho̍k-chiông

Best Rank

English: #12734 11.2014

Global: #10564 03.2019

Best Rank

English: #1024 01.2003

Global: #357 02.2003

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