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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 483
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 0
0
Category:Algeria 509
0
Category:American Samoa 41
0
Category:Andorra 51
0
Category:Angola 83
0
Category:Anguilla 14
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 71
0
Category:Argentina 11
0
Category:Armenia 969
0
Category:Aruba 27
0
Category:Australia 0
0
Category:Austria 8
0
Category:Azerbaijan 2
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 157
0
Category:Bangladesh 212
0
Category:Barbados 155
0
Category:Belarus 89
0
Category:Belgium 9
0
Category:Belize 0
0
Category:Benin 742
0
Category:Bermuda 182
0
Category:Bhutan 934
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0
0
Category:Botswana 132
0
Category:Brazil 4,167
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 58
0
Category:Bulgaria 328
0
Category:Burkina Faso 332
0
Category:Burundi 374
0
Category:Cambodia 477
0
Category:Cameroon 665
0
Category:Canada 59
0
Category:Cayman Islands 74
0
Category:Central African Republic 34
0
Category:Chad 278
0
Category:Chile 697
0
Category:China 245
0
Category:Colombia 261
0
Category:Comoros 16
0
Category:Cook Islands 33
0
Category:Costa Rica 61
0
Category:Croatia 1
0
Category:Cuba 22
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 35
0
Category:Czech Republic 11
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0
0
Category:Denmark 0
0
Category:Djibouti 216
0
Category:Dominica 101
0
Category:Dominican Republic 18
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 58
0
Category:Ecuador 4,827
0
Category:Egypt 977
0
Category:El Salvador 104
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 26
0
Category:Eritrea 39
0
Category:Estonia 6
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 522
0
Category:Falkland Islands 72
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 76
0
Category:Fiji 343
0
Category:Finland 3
0
Category:France 1
0
Category:French Guiana 47
0
Category:French Polynesia 122
0
Category:The Gambia 0
0
Category:Georgia 4
0
Category:Germany 5
0
Category:Ghana 2,670
0
Category:Gibraltar 757
0
Category:Greece 76
0
Category:Greenland 59
0
Category:Grenada 104
0
Category:Guadeloupe 16
0
Category:Guam 53
0
Category:Guatemala 3
0
Category:Guernsey 104
0
Category:Guinea 10
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 68
0
Category:Guyana 126
0
Category:Haiti 165
0
Category:Honduras 4
0
Category:Hong Kong 192
0
Category:Hungary 35
0
Category:Iceland 1
0
Category:India 0
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 3,583
0
Category:Iran 1,089
0
Category:Ireland 0
0
Category:Isle of Man 377
0
Category:Israel 1,313
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 1
0
Category:Jamaica 170
0
Category:Japan 22
0
Category:Jersey 95
0
Category:Jordan 503
0
Category:Kazakhstan 160
0
Category:Kenya 538
0
Category:Kiribati 145
0
Category:Kosovo 276
0
Category:Kuwait 257
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 305
0
Category:Laos 146
0
Category:Latvia 93
0
Category:Lebanon 240
0
Category:Lesotho 67
0
Category:Liberia 74
0
Category:Libya 385
0
Category:Liechtenstein 44
0
Category:Lithuania 85
0
Category:Luxembourg 4
0
Category:Macau 26
0
Category:Madagascar 1,880
0
Category:Malawi 71
0
Category:Malaysia 4,526
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 177
0
Category:Mali 443
0
Category:Malta 269
0
Category:Marshall Islands 121
0
Category:Martinique 63
0
Category:Mauritania 237
0
Category:Mauritius 66
0
Category:Mayotte 13
0
Category:Mexico 0
0
Category:Moldova 0
0
Category:Monaco 157
0
Category:Mongolia 315
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 49
0
Category:Morocco 1,489
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 33
0
Category:Myanmar 728
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 11
0
Category:Nepal 1
0
Category:Netherlands 19
0
Category:New Caledonia 95
0
Category:New Zealand 163
0
Category:Nicaragua 218
0
Category:Niger 60
0
Category:Nigeria 1,573
0
Category:Niue 367
0
Category:North Korea 230
0
Category:North Macedonia 825
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 20
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 133
0
Category:Pakistan 543
0
Category:Palau 15
0
Category:Palestine 414
0
Category:Panama 0
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 224
0
Category:Paraguay 443
0
Category:Peru 75
0
Category:Philippines 301
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 7
0
Category:Poland 1,425
0
Category:Portugal 0
0
Category:Puerto Rico 70
0
Category:Qatar 122
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 217
0
Category:Romania 60
0
Category:Russia 473
0
Category:Rwanda 0
0
Category:Réunion 10
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 156
0
Category:Saint Lucia 328
0
Category:Saint Martin 4
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 48
0
Category:Samoa 92
0
Category:San Marino 287
0
Category:São Tomé and Príncipe 45
0
Category:Saudi Arabia 986
0
Category:Senegal 298
0
Category:Serbia 0
0
Category:Seychelles 0
0
Category:Sierra Leone 47
0
Category:Singapore 1,613
0
Category:Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean 13
0
Category:Slovakia 383
0
Category:Slovenia 0
0
Category:Solomon Islands 190
0
Category:Somalia 139
0
Category:South Africa 86
0
Category:South Korea 218
0
Category:South Sudan 185
0
Category:Spain 17
0
Category:Sri Lanka 820
0
Category:Sudan 50
0
Category:Suriname 47
0
Category:Sweden 19
0
Category:Switzerland 0
0
Category:Syria 278
0
Category:Taiwan 351
0
Category:Tajikistan 199
0
Category:Tanzania 634
0
Category:Thailand 722
0
Category:Timor-Leste 7
0
Category:Togo 398
0
Category:Tokelau 22
0
Category:Tonga 199
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 11
0
Category:Tunisia 0
0
Category:Turkey 539
0
Category:Turkmenistan 78
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 44
0
Category:Tuvalu 46
0
Category:Uganda 209
0
Category:Ukraine 1,417
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 849
0
Category:United Kingdom 5
0
Category:United States 5
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 33
0
Category:Uruguay 42
0
Category:Uzbekistan 477
0
Category:Vanuatu 214
0
Category:Venezuela 55
0
Category:Vietnam 1,265
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 20
0
Category:Western Sahara 83
0
Category:Yemen 560
0
Category:Zambia 157
0
Category:Zimbabwe 42
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.
