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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 505
0
Category:American Samoa 43
0
Category:Andorra 50
0
Category:Angola 83
0
Category:Anguilla 13
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 70
0
Category:Argentina 10
0
Category:Armenia 351
0
Category:Aruba 26
0
Category:Australia 1
0
Category:Austria 4
0
Category:Azerbaijan 5
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 158
0
Category:Bangladesh 165
0
Category:Barbados 162
0
Category:Belarus 135
0
Category:Belgium 0
0
Category:Belize 4
0
Category:Benin 960
0
Category:Bermuda 179
0
Category:Bhutan 563
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0
0
Category:Botswana 130
0
Category:Brazil 4,170
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 57
0
Category:Bulgaria 312
0
Category:Burkina Faso 407
0
Category:Burundi 344
0
Category:Cambodia 485
0
Category:Cameroon 246
0
Category:Canada 52
0
Category:Cayman Islands 75
0
Category:Central African Republic 32
0
Category:Chad 198
0
Category:Chile 719
0
Category:China 610
0
Category:Colombia 132
0
Category:Comoros 16
0
Category:Cook Islands 12
0
Category:Costa Rica 64
0
Category:Croatia 0
0
Category:Cuba 26
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 31
0
Category:Czech Republic 31
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0
0
Category:Denmark 0
0
Category:Djibouti 217
0
Category:Dominica 102
0
Category:Dominican Republic 42
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 57
0
Category:East Timor 1
0
Category:Ecuador 4,818
0
Category:Egypt 947
0
Category:El Salvador 98
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 22
0
Category:Eritrea 38
0
Category:Estonia 4
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 520
0
Category:Falkland Islands 69
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 74
0
Category:Fiji 340
0
Category:Finland 2
0
Category:France 0
0
Category:French Guiana 44
0
Category:French Polynesia 123
0
Category:The Gambia 0
0
Category:Georgia 5
0
Category:Germany 6
0
Category:Ghana 2,464
0
Category:Gibraltar 763
0
Category:Greece 93
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 540
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 68
0
Category:Guyana 129
0
Category:Haiti 162
0
Category:Honduras 17
0
Category:Hong Kong 161
0
Category:Hungary 27
0
Category:Iceland 1
0
Category:India 1
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 2,520
0
Category:Iran 1,082
0
Category:Ireland 0
0
Category:Isle of Man 374
0
Category:Israel 1,260
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 20
0
Category:Jamaica 170
0
Category:Japan 0
0
Category:Jersey 96
0
Category:Jordan 509
0
Category:Kazakhstan 144
0
Category:Kenya 515
0
Category:Kiribati 148
0
Category:Kosovo 271
0
Category:Kuwait 259
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 300
0
Category:Laos 146
0
Category:Latvia 92
0
Category:Lebanon 240
0
Category:Lesotho 76
0
Category:Liberia 73
0
Category:Libya 379
0
Category:Liechtenstein 48
0
Category:Lithuania 85
0
Category:Luxembourg 2
0
Category:Macau 24
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0
0
Category:Madagascar 1,391
0
Category:Malawi 70
0
Category:Malaysia 4,449
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 164
0
Category:Mali 439
0
Category:Malta 208
0
Category:Marshall Islands 87
0
Category:Martinique 59
0
Category:Mauritania 231
0
Category:Mauritius 66
0
Category:Mayotte 10
0
Category:Mexico 56
0
Category:Moldova 24
0
Category:Monaco 158
0
Category:Mongolia 317
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 50
0
Category:Morocco 1,474
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 31
0
Category:Myanmar 723
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 12
0
Category:Nepal 1
0
Category:Netherlands 15
0
Category:New Caledonia 82
0
Category:New Zealand 155
0
Category:Nicaragua 215
0
Category:Niger 61
0
Category:Nigeria 1,502
0
Category:Niue 354
0
Category:North Korea 236
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 20
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 137
0
Category:Pakistan 507
0
Category:Palau 15
0
Category:Palestine 435
0
Category:Panama 1
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 244
0
Category:Paraguay 446
0
Category:Peru 36
0
Category:Philippines 298
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 7
0
Category:Poland 1,423
0
Category:Portugal 0
0
Category:Puerto Rico 139
0
Category:Qatar 119
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 217
0
Category:Romania 49
0
Category:Russia 156
0
Category:Rwanda 5
0
Category:Réunion 88
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 211
0
Category:Serbia 0
0
Category:Seychelles 1
0
Category:Sierra Leone 47
0
Category:Singapore 1,587
0
Category:Sint Maarten 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 503
0
Category:Slovenia 1
0
Category:Solomon Islands 190
0
Category:Somalia 123
0
Category:South Africa 86
0
Category:South Korea 78
0
Category:South Sudan 186
0
Category:Spain 25
0
Category:Sri Lanka 800
0
Category:Sudan 34
0
Category:Suriname 45
0
Category:Sweden 3
0
Category:Switzerland 0
0
Category:Syria 264
0
Category:Taiwan 332
0
Category:Tajikistan 198
0
Category:Tanzania 635
0
Category:Thailand 56
0
Category:Togo 470
0
Category:Tokelau 2
0
Category:Tonga 174
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 11
0
Category:Tunisia 0
0
Category:Turkey 393
0
Category:Turkmenistan 79
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 40
0
Category:Tuvalu 42
0
Category:Uganda 200
0
Category:Ukraine 1,200
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 805
0
Category:United Kingdom 30
0
Category:United States 2
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 32
0
Category:Uruguay 37
0
Category:Uzbekistan 475
0
Category:Vanuatu 213
0
Category:Venezuela 90
0
Category:Vietnam 1,240
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 20
0
Category:Western Sahara 80
0
Category:Yemen 543
0
Category:Zambia 160
0
Category:Zimbabwe 38
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.
