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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 474
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 0
0
Category:Algeria 501
0
Category:American Samoa 43
0
Category:Andorra 53
0
Category:Angola 81
0
Category:Anguilla 13
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 70
0
Category:Argentina 9
0
Category:Armenia 347
0
Category:Aruba 24
0
Category:Australia 23
0
Category:Austria 4
0
Category:Azerbaijan 1
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 157
0
Category:Bangladesh 139
0
Category:Barbados 162
0
Category:Belarus 156
0
Category:Belgium 0
0
Category:Belize 0
0
Category:Benin 958
0
Category:Bermuda 177
0
Category:Bhutan 558
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0
0
Category:Botswana 118
0
Category:Brazil 4,147
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 57
0
Category:Bulgaria 308
0
Category:Burkina Faso 341
0
Category:Burundi 331
0
Category:Cambodia 482
0
Category:Cameroon 201
0
Category:Canada 25
0
Category:Cayman Islands 76
0
Category:Central African Republic 32
0
Category:Chad 194
0
Category:Chile 747
0
Category:China 611
0
Category:Colombia 105
0
Category:Comoros 16
0
Category:Cook Islands 12
0
Category:Costa Rica 65
0
Category:Croatia 0
0
Category:Cuba 22
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 31
0
Category:Czech Republic 16
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0
0
Category:Denmark 0
0
Category:Djibouti 217
0
Category:Dominica 102
0
Category:Dominican Republic 38
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 50
0
Category:East Timor 0
0
Category:Ecuador 4,804
0
Category:Egypt 947
0
Category:El Salvador 99
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 33
0
Category:Eritrea 38
0
Category:Estonia 0
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 523
0
Category:Falkland Islands 69
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 69
0
Category:Fiji 340
0
Category:Finland 3
0
Category:France 2
0
Category:French Guiana 43
0
Category:French Polynesia 124
0
Category:The Gambia 0
0
Category:Georgia 1
0
Category:Germany 6
0
Category:Ghana 1,838
0
Category:Gibraltar 765
0
Category:Greece 104
0
Category:Greenland 55
0
Category:Grenada 106
0
Category:Guadeloupe 13
0
Category:Guam 108
0
Category:Guatemala 7
0
Category:Guernsey 103
0
Category:Guinea 119
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 68
0
Category:Guyana 129
0
Category:Haiti 143
0
Category:Honduras 10
0
Category:Hong Kong 145
0
Category:Hungary 25
0
Category:Iceland 1
0
Category:India 22
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 582
0
Category:Iran 1,082
0
Category:Ireland 4
0
Category:Isle of Man 373
0
Category:Israel 1,290
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 10
0
Category:Jamaica 169
0
Category:Japan 0
0
Category:Jersey 95
0
Category:Jordan 513
0
Category:Kazakhstan 139
0
Category:Kenya 512
0
Category:Kiribati 151
0
Category:Kosovo 272
0
Category:Kuwait 257
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 298
0
Category:Laos 146
0
Category:Latvia 95
0
Category:Lebanon 240
0
Category:Lesotho 76
0
Category:Liberia 73
0
Category:Libya 374
0
Category:Liechtenstein 48
0
Category:Lithuania 87
0
Category:Luxembourg 4
0
Category:Macau 24
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0
0
Category:Madagascar 1,255
0
Category:Malawi 69
0
Category:Malaysia 4,430
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 157
0
Category:Mali 440
0
Category:Malta 194
0
Category:Marshall Islands 87
0
Category:Martinique 71
0
Category:Mauritania 233
0
Category:Mauritius 66
0
Category:Mayotte 9
0
Category:Mexico 9
0
Category:Moldova 23
0
Category:Monaco 156
0
Category:Mongolia 320
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 50
0
Category:Morocco 1,299
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 31
0
Category:Myanmar 719
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 12
0
Category:Nepal 1
0
Category:Netherlands 9
0
Category:New Caledonia 83
0
Category:New Zealand 154
0
Category:Nicaragua 216
0
Category:Niger 56
0
Category:Nigeria 1,462
0
Category:Niue 354
0
Category:North Korea 238
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 21
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 164
0
Category:Pakistan 508
0
Category:Palau 15
0
Category:Palestine 446
0
Category:Panama 0
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 245
0
Category:Paraguay 445
0
Category:Peru 33
0
Category:Philippines 288
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 7
0
Category:Poland 1,413
0
Category:Portugal 45
0
Category:Puerto Rico 51
0
Category:Qatar 121
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 196
0
Category:Romania 49
0
Category:Russia 104
0
Category:Rwanda 4
0
Category:Réunion 88
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 164
0
Category:Saint Lucia 291
0
Category:Saint Martin 4
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 47
0
Category:Samoa 80
0
Category:San Marino 166
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia 962
0
Category:Senegal 212
0
Category:Serbia 0
0
Category:Seychelles 0
0
Category:Sierra Leone 47
0
Category:Singapore 1,583
0
Category:Sint Maarten 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 491
0
Category:Slovenia 0
0
Category:Solomon Islands 190
0
Category:Somalia 125
0
Category:South Africa 83
0
Category:South Korea 80
0
Category:South Sudan 186
0
Category:Spain 12
0
Category:Sri Lanka 818
0
Category:Sudan 31
0
Category:Suriname 44
0
Category:Sweden 3
0
Category:Switzerland 2
0
Category:Syria 266
0
Category:Taiwan 323
0
Category:Tajikistan 147
0
Category:Tanzania 635
0
Category:Thailand 56
0
Category:Togo 322
0
Category:Tokelau 2
0
Category:Tonga 174
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 13
0
Category:Tunisia 0
0
Category:Turkey 383
0
Category:Turkmenistan 79
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 40
0
Category:Tuvalu 42
0
Category:Uganda 196
0
Category:Ukraine 1,188
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 806
0
Category:United Kingdom 4
0
Category:United States 6
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 32
0
Category:Uruguay 38
0
Category:Uzbekistan 471
0
Category:Vanuatu 213
0
Category:Venezuela 89
0
Category:Vietnam 1,426
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 19
0
Category:Western Sahara 80
0
Category:Yemen 544
0
Category:Zambia 158
0
Category:Zimbabwe 30
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.
