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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 476
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 0
0
Category:Algeria 494
0
Category:American Samoa 43
0
Category:Andorra 53
0
Category:Angola 78
0
Category:Anguilla 13
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 70
0
Category:Argentina 8
0
Category:Armenia 347
0
Category:Aruba 47
0
Category:Australia 22
0
Category:Austria 4
0
Category:Azerbaijan 5
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 156
0
Category:Bangladesh 134
0
Category:Barbados 161
0
Category:Belarus 173
0
Category:Belgium 1
0
Category:Belize 0
0
Category:Benin 1,015
0
Category:Bermuda 176
0
Category:Bhutan 558
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0
0
Category:Botswana 112
0
Category:Brazil 4,145
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 57
0
Category:Bulgaria 306
0
Category:Burkina Faso 340
0
Category:Burundi 326
0
Category:Cambodia 484
0
Category:Cameroon 157
0
Category:Canada 340
0
Category:Cayman Islands 77
0
Category:Central African Republic 32
0
Category:Chad 179
0
Category:Chile 817
0
Category:China 291
0
Category:Colombia 102
0
Category:Comoros 15
0
Category:Cook Islands 12
0
Category:Costa Rica 65
0
Category:Croatia 0
0
Category:Cuba 21
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 31
0
Category:Czech Republic 11
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0
0
Category:Denmark 0
0
Category:Djibouti 228
0
Category:Dominica 102
0
Category:Dominican Republic 38
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 51
0
Category:East Timor 0
0
Category:Ecuador 4,777
0
Category:Egypt 907
0
Category:El Salvador 99
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 33
0
Category:Eritrea 38
0
Category:Estonia 1
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 522
0
Category:Falkland Islands 69
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 69
0
Category:Fiji 339
0
Category:Finland 2
0
Category:France 11
0
Category:French Guiana 43
0
Category:French Polynesia 123
0
Category:The Gambia 0
0
Category:Georgia 0
0
Category:Germany 3
0
Category:Ghana 1,555
0
Category:Gibraltar 764
0
Category:Greece 85
0
Category:Greenland 55
0
Category:Grenada 105
0
Category:Guadeloupe 13
0
Category:Guam 108
0
Category:Guatemala 6
0
Category:Guernsey 103
0
Category:Guinea 119
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 68
0
Category:Guyana 129
0
Category:Haiti 142
0
Category:Honduras 8
0
Category:Hong Kong 196
0
Category:Hungary 25
0
Category:Iceland 1
0
Category:India 7
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 340
0
Category:Iran 742
0
Category:Ireland 0
0
Category:Isle of Man 373
0
Category:Israel 1,290
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 36
0
Category:Jamaica 170
0
Category:Japan 0
0
Category:Jersey 95
0
Category:Jordan 512
0
Category:Kazakhstan 136
0
Category:Kenya 516
0
Category:Kiribati 151
0
Category:Kosovo 272
0
Category:Kuwait 256
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 298
0
Category:Laos 146
0
Category:Latvia 96
0
Category:Lebanon 239
0
Category:Lesotho 76
0
Category:Liberia 73
0
Category:Libya 234
0
Category:Liechtenstein 47
0
Category:Lithuania 87
0
Category:Luxembourg 17
0
Category:Macau 24
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0
0
Category:Madagascar 1,250
0
Category:Malawi 69
0
Category:Malaysia 4,439
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 155
0
Category:Mali 440
0
Category:Malta 224
0
Category:Marshall Islands 87
0
Category:Martinique 70
0
Category:Mauritania 234
0
Category:Mauritius 66
0
Category:Mayotte 10
0
Category:Mexico 10
0
Category:Moldova 24
0
Category:Monaco 155
0
Category:Mongolia 320
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 50
0
Category:Morocco 1,292
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 30
0
Category:Myanmar 717
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 12
0
Category:Nepal 1
0
Category:Netherlands 6
0
Category:New Caledonia 83
0
Category:New Zealand 154
0
Category:Nicaragua 218
0
Category:Niger 56
0
Category:Nigeria 1,459
0
Category:Niue 354
0
Category:North Korea 237
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 21
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 163
0
Category:Pakistan 507
0
Category:Palau 15
0
Category:Palestine 446
0
Category:Panama 0
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 244
0
Category:Paraguay 442
0
Category:Peru 27
0
Category:Philippines 288
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 7
0
Category:Poland 1,414
0
Category:Portugal 1
0
Category:Puerto Rico 51
0
Category:Qatar 122
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 196
0
Category:Romania 49
0
Category:Russia 80
0
Category:Rwanda 2
0
Category:Réunion 86
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 81
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 168
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia 922
0
Category:Senegal 213
0
Category:Serbia 0
0
Category:Seychelles 0
0
Category:Sierra Leone 46
0
Category:Singapore 1,516
0
Category:Sint Maarten 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 474
0
Category:Slovenia 1
0
Category:Solomon Islands 190
0
Category:Somalia 126
0
Category:South Africa 66
0
Category:South Korea 79
0
Category:South Sudan 186
0
Category:Spain 10
0
Category:Sri Lanka 791
0
Category:Sudan 29
0
Category:Suriname 44
0
Category:Sweden 2
0
Category:Switzerland 2
0
Category:Syria 263
0
Category:Taiwan 316
0
Category:Tajikistan 145
0
Category:Tanzania 633
0
Category:Thailand 49
0
Category:Togo 331
0
Category:Tokelau 2
0
Category:Tonga 173
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 11
0
Category:Tunisia 0
0
Category:Turkey 419
0
Category:Turkmenistan 78
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 41
0
Category:Tuvalu 42
0
Category:Uganda 191
0
Category:Ukraine 1,117
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 801
0
Category:United Kingdom 3
0
Category:United States 1
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 32
0
Category:Uruguay 38
0
Category:Uzbekistan 470
0
Category:Vanuatu 212
0
Category:Venezuela 86
0
Category:Vietnam 1,425
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 19
0
Category:Western Sahara 80
0
Category:Yemen 541
0
Category:Zambia 157
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.
