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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 475
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 0
0
Category:Algeria 507
0
Category:American Samoa 41
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 348
0
Category:Aruba 26
0
Category:Australia 1
0
Category:Austria 3
0
Category:Azerbaijan 2
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 157
0
Category:Bangladesh 173
0
Category:Barbados 162
0
Category:Belarus 119
0
Category:Belgium 5
0
Category:Belize 0
0
Category:Benin 735
0
Category:Bermuda 176
0
Category:Bhutan 566
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0
0
Category:Botswana 132
0
Category:Brazil 4,166
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 56
0
Category:Bulgaria 314
0
Category:Burkina Faso 411
0
Category:Burundi 389
0
Category:Cambodia 482
0
Category:Cameroon 288
0
Category:Canada 48
0
Category:Cayman Islands 74
0
Category:Central African Republic 32
0
Category:Chad 226
0
Category:Chile 724
0
Category:China 495
0
Category:Colombia 143
0
Category:Comoros 16
0
Category:Cook Islands 12
0
Category:Costa Rica 48
0
Category:Croatia 0
0
Category:Cuba 29
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 32
0
Category:Czech Republic 32
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0
0
Category:Denmark 0
0
Category:Djibouti 217
0
Category:Dominica 102
0
Category:Dominican Republic 26
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 59
0
Category:East Timor 1
0
Category:Ecuador 4,817
0
Category:Egypt 963
0
Category:El Salvador 99
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 27
0
Category:Eritrea 38
0
Category:Estonia 6
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 518
0
Category:Falkland Islands 69
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 74
0
Category:Fiji 341
0
Category:Finland 1
0
Category:France 1
0
Category:French Guiana 45
0
Category:French Polynesia 123
0
Category:The Gambia 1
0
Category:Georgia 2
0
Category:Germany 6
0
Category:Ghana 2,473
0
Category:Gibraltar 763
0
Category:Greece 91
0
Category:Greenland 58
0
Category:Grenada 106
0
Category:Guadeloupe 14
0
Category:Guam 88
0
Category:Guatemala 0
0
Category:Guernsey 104
0
Category:Guinea 787
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 68
0
Category:Guyana 130
0
Category:Haiti 165
0
Category:Honduras 2
0
Category:Hong Kong 162
0
Category:Hungary 28
0
Category:Iceland 1
0
Category:India 0
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 3,243
0
Category:Iran 1,078
0
Category:Ireland 0
0
Category:Isle of Man 374
0
Category:Israel 1,272
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 24
0
Category:Jamaica 169
0
Category:Japan 2
0
Category:Jersey 95
0
Category:Jordan 509
0
Category:Kazakhstan 146
0
Category:Kenya 517
0
Category:Kiribati 148
0
Category:Kosovo 272
0
Category:Kuwait 257
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 303
0
Category:Laos 146
0
Category:Latvia 90
0
Category:Lebanon 235
0
Category:Lesotho 77
0
Category:Liberia 73
0
Category:Libya 380
0
Category:Liechtenstein 48
0
Category:Lithuania 85
0
Category:Luxembourg 5
0
Category:Macau 24
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0
0
Category:Madagascar 1,470
0
Category:Malawi 70
0
Category:Malaysia 4,491
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 163
0
Category:Mali 441
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 0
0
Category:Moldova 25
0
Category:Monaco 158
0
Category:Mongolia 317
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 50
0
Category:Morocco 1,496
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 31
0
Category:Myanmar 727
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 12
0
Category:Nepal 0
0
Category:Netherlands 10
0
Category:New Caledonia 83
0
Category:New Zealand 158
0
Category:Nicaragua 216
0
Category:Niger 60
0
Category:Nigeria 1,522
0
Category:Niue 354
0
Category:North Korea 235
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 20
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 138
0
Category:Pakistan 508
0
Category:Palau 15
0
Category:Palestine 413
0
Category:Panama 1
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 245
0
Category:Paraguay 442
0
Category:Peru 43
0
Category:Philippines 300
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 7
0
Category:Poland 1,429
0
Category:Portugal 0
0
Category:Puerto Rico 138
0
Category:Qatar 120
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 217
0
Category:Romania 50
0
Category:Russia 240
0
Category:Rwanda 6
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 955
0
Category:Senegal 372
0
Category:Serbia 2
0
Category:Seychelles 0
0
Category:Sierra Leone 47
0
Category:Singapore 1,596
0
Category:Sint Maarten 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 519
0
Category:Slovenia 0
0
Category:Solomon Islands 190
0
Category:Somalia 126
0
Category:South Africa 86
0
Category:South Korea 96
0
Category:South Sudan 186
0
Category:Spain 25
0
Category:Sri Lanka 807
0
Category:Sudan 49
0
Category:Suriname 46
0
Category:Sweden 18
0
Category:Switzerland 1
0
Category:Syria 264
0
Category:Taiwan 333
0
Category:Tajikistan 200
0
Category:Tanzania 631
0
Category:Thailand 722
0
Category:Togo 507
0
Category:Tokelau 2
0
Category:Tonga 174
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 11
0
Category:Tunisia 3
0
Category:Turkey 396
0
Category:Turkmenistan 79
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 40
0
Category:Tuvalu 42
0
Category:Uganda 200
0
Category:Ukraine 1,211
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 817
0
Category:United Kingdom 29
0
Category:United States 3
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 32
0
Category:Uruguay 60
0
Category:Uzbekistan 475
0
Category:Vanuatu 213
0
Category:Venezuela 5
0
Category:Vietnam 1,243
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 20
0
Category:Western Sahara 82
0
Category:Yemen 542
0
Category:Zambia 161
0
Category:Zimbabwe 40
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.
