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The main method of browsing Wikimedia Commons (as opposed to searching) is via the category system . Often, categorisation is quite broad so the ability to browse Wikimedia Commons effectively is limited as the categories are incomplete or cluttered. This page has been developed to help maintain more important categories and for information on how files are best diffused from categories into a or multiple subcategories. The tool cat-a-lot is very helpful for moving many files at once into fitting subcategories.
More information is below these tables.
These tables allow editors to quickly see which categories contain files and allows comparison to how many the category should have. The "Current" column is dynamically generated and the "Suggested" column is an indication of the number that should be present.
The purge button to the right should be used to get the latest data.
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It is unlikely to find a file in a country category that cannot be subcategorised.
Category
Current
Suggested
Notes
Category:Afghanistan 477
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 2
0
Category:Algeria 506
0
Category:American Samoa 43
0
Category:Andorra 51
0
Category:Angola 82
0
Category:Anguilla 14
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 70
0
Category:Argentina 13
0
Category:Armenia 351
0
Category:Aruba 26
0
Category:Australia 1
0
Category:Austria 3
0
Category:Azerbaijan 1
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 158
0
Category:Bangladesh 166
0
Category:Barbados 162
0
Category:Belarus 127
0
Category:Belgium 1
0
Category:Belize 4
0
Category:Benin 731
0
Category:Bermuda 179
0
Category:Bhutan 565
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 1
0
Category:Botswana 132
0
Category:Brazil 4,166
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 56
0
Category:Bulgaria 312
0
Category:Burkina Faso 407
0
Category:Burundi 366
0
Category:Cambodia 486
0
Category:Cameroon 248
0
Category:Canada 45
0
Category:Cayman Islands 75
0
Category:Central African Republic 32
0
Category:Chad 199
0
Category:Chile 719
0
Category:China 609
0
Category:Colombia 134
0
Category:Comoros 16
0
Category:Cook Islands 12
0
Category:Costa Rica 65
0
Category:Croatia 0
0
Category:Cuba 29
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 31
0
Category:Czech Republic 30
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0
0
Category:Denmark 0
0
Category:Djibouti 217
0
Category:Dominica 102
0
Category:Dominican Republic 27
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 59
0
Category:East Timor 1
0
Category:Ecuador 4,818
0
Category:Egypt 943
0
Category:El Salvador 99
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 27
0
Category:Eritrea 38
0
Category:Estonia 4
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 519
0
Category:Falkland Islands 69
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 74
0
Category:Fiji 340
0
Category:Finland 1
0
Category:France 11
0
Category:French Guiana 45
0
Category:French Polynesia 123
0
Category:The Gambia 1
0
Category:Georgia 2
0
Category:Germany 10
0
Category:Ghana 2,471
0
Category:Gibraltar 763
0
Category:Greece 94
0
Category:Greenland 58
0
Category:Grenada 106
0
Category:Guadeloupe 14
0
Category:Guam 106
0
Category:Guatemala 7
0
Category:Guernsey 104
0
Category:Guinea 600
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 68
0
Category:Guyana 130
0
Category:Haiti 165
0
Category:Honduras 22
0
Category:Hong Kong 165
0
Category:Hungary 27
0
Category:Iceland 1
0
Category:India 1
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 2,927
0
Category:Iran 1,082
0
Category:Ireland 3
0
Category:Isle of Man 374
0
Category:Israel 1,262
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 25
0
Category:Jamaica 171
0
Category:Japan 5
0
Category:Jersey 95
0
Category:Jordan 511
0
Category:Kazakhstan 146
0
Category:Kenya 516
0
Category:Kiribati 148
0
Category:Kosovo 271
0
Category:Kuwait 261
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 303
0
Category:Laos 146
0
Category:Latvia 91
0
Category:Lebanon 240
0
Category:Lesotho 76
0
Category:Liberia 73
0
Category:Libya 381
0
Category:Liechtenstein 48
0
Category:Lithuania 86
0
Category:Luxembourg 5
0
Category:Macau 24
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0
0
Category:Madagascar 1,419
0
Category:Malawi 70
0
Category:Malaysia 4,484
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 163
0
Category:Mali 440
0
Category:Malta 209
0
Category:Marshall Islands 87
0
Category:Martinique 59
0
Category:Mauritania 232
0
Category:Mauritius 66
0
Category:Mayotte 10
0
Category:Mexico 1
0
Category:Moldova 25
0
Category:Monaco 158
0
Category:Mongolia 319
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 50
0
Category:Morocco 1,478
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 31
0
Category:Myanmar 724
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 12
0
Category:Nepal 0
0
Category:Netherlands 11
0
Category:New Caledonia 82
0
Category:New Zealand 159
0
Category:Nicaragua 216
0
Category:Niger 62
0
Category:Nigeria 1,500
0
Category:Niue 354
0
Category:North Korea 237
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 20
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 139
0
Category:Pakistan 509
0
Category:Palau 16
0
Category:Palestine 432
0
Category:Panama 1
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 245
0
Category:Paraguay 442
0
Category:Peru 40
0
Category:Philippines 299
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 8
0
Category:Poland 1,423
0
Category:Portugal 0
0
Category:Puerto Rico 138
0
Category:Qatar 119
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 217
0
Category:Romania 50
0
Category:Russia 243
0
Category:Rwanda 5
0
Category:Réunion 89
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 167
0
Category:Saint Lucia 291
0
Category:Saint Martin 4
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 48
0
Category:Samoa 80
0
Category:San Marino 167
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia 959
0
Category:Senegal 291
0
Category:Serbia 0
0
Category:Seychelles 1
0
Category:Sierra Leone 47
0
Category:Singapore 1,591
0
Category:Sint Maarten 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 511
0
Category:Slovenia 0
0
Category:Solomon Islands 190
0
Category:Somalia 126
0
Category:South Africa 86
0
Category:South Korea 92
0
Category:South Sudan 186
0
Category:Spain 27
0
Category:Sri Lanka 801
0
Category:Sudan 37
0
Category:Suriname 46
0
Category:Sweden 17
0
Category:Switzerland 1
0
Category:Syria 264
0
Category:Taiwan 333
0
Category:Tajikistan 200
0
Category:Tanzania 634
0
Category:Thailand 609
0
Category:Togo 471
0
Category:Tokelau 2
0
Category:Tonga 174
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 11
0
Category:Tunisia 0
0
Category:Turkey 394
0
Category:Turkmenistan 79
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 40
0
Category:Tuvalu 42
0
Category:Uganda 200
0
Category:Ukraine 1,201
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 815
0
Category:United Kingdom 29
0
Category:United States 0
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 32
0
Category:Uruguay 55
0
Category:Uzbekistan 474
0
Category:Vanuatu 213
0
Category:Venezuela 92
0
Category:Vietnam 1,243
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 20
0
Category:Western Sahara 81
0
Category:Yemen 543
0
Category:Zambia 161
0
Category:Zimbabwe 39
0
(These are probably the more important ones) (These are probably the more important ones) The templates {{Categorise}} {{CatDiffuse}}
The tables above are for some of the more important categories. {{MetaCat}} {{CatCat}} Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Metacat can be used to find them.
If you do not know what would be a more appropriate category use {{Check categories}}
As of November 2022 Category:Categories requiring permanent diffusion to zero has 12,733 entries.
Often, files do not belong into just one subcategory but into multiple subcategories.
