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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 472
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 0
0
Category:Algeria 514
0
Category:American Samoa 41
0
Category:Andorra 51
0
Category:Angola 83
0
Category:Anguilla 14
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 70
0
Category:Argentina 8
0
Category:Armenia 356
0
Category:Aruba 27
0
Category:Australia 1
0
Category:Austria 3
0
Category:Azerbaijan 0
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 157
0
Category:Bangladesh 182
0
Category:Barbados 160
0
Category:Belarus 102
0
Category:Belgium 7
0
Category:Belize 0
0
Category:Benin 742
0
Category:Bermuda 180
0
Category:Bhutan 564
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0
0
Category:Botswana 134
0
Category:Brazil 4,183
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 56
0
Category:Bulgaria 317
0
Category:Burkina Faso 289
0
Category:Burundi 390
0
Category:Cambodia 477
0
Category:Cameroon 296
0
Category:Canada 50
0
Category:Cayman Islands 74
0
Category:Central African Republic 32
0
Category:Chad 257
0
Category:Chile 704
0
Category:China 481
0
Category:Colombia 206
0
Category:Comoros 16
0
Category:Cook Islands 33
0
Category:Costa Rica 55
0
Category:Croatia 0
0
Category:Cuba 31
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 30
0
Category:Czech Republic 1
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 1
0
Category:Denmark 0
0
Category:Djibouti 217
0
Category:Dominica 102
0
Category:Dominican Republic 21
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 58
0
Category:East Timor 1
0
Category:Ecuador 4,825
0
Category:Egypt 854
0
Category:El Salvador 100
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 26
0
Category:Eritrea 38
0
Category:Estonia 5
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 519
0
Category:Falkland Islands 70
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 74
0
Category:Fiji 343
0
Category:Finland 1
0
Category:France 0
0
Category:French Guiana 45
0
Category:French Polynesia 123
0
Category:The Gambia 1
0
Category:Georgia 3
0
Category:Germany 8
0
Category:Ghana 2,484
0
Category:Gibraltar 756
0
Category:Greece 93
0
Category:Greenland 58
0
Category:Grenada 109
0
Category:Guadeloupe 15
0
Category:Guam 55
0
Category:Guatemala 0
0
Category:Guernsey 104
0
Category:Guinea 10
0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 68
0
Category:Guyana 126
0
Category:Haiti 167
0
Category:Honduras 3
0
Category:Hong Kong 159
0
Category:Hungary 31
0
Category:Iceland 1
0
Category:India 0
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 3,680
0
Category:Iran 1,082
0
Category:Ireland 0
0
Category:Isle of Man 377
0
Category:Israel 1,284
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 7
0
Category:Jamaica 169
0
Category:Japan 20
0
Category:Jersey 95
0
Category:Jordan 510
0
Category:Kazakhstan 148
0
Category:Kenya 519
0
Category:Kiribati 154
0
Category:Kosovo 274
0
Category:Kuwait 257
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 303
0
Category:Laos 147
0
Category:Latvia 91
0
Category:Lebanon 241
0
Category:Lesotho 76
0
Category:Liberia 73
0
Category:Libya 382
0
Category:Liechtenstein 42
0
Category:Lithuania 86
0
Category:Luxembourg 4
0
Category:Macau 26
0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0
0
Category:Madagascar 1,450
0
Category:Malawi 70
0
Category:Malaysia 4,539
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 176
0
Category:Mali 441
0
Category:Malta 208
0
Category:Marshall Islands 87
0
Category:Martinique 60
0
Category:Mauritania 230
0
Category:Mauritius 66
0
Category:Mayotte 12
0
Category:Mexico 0
0
Category:Moldova 28
0
Category:Monaco 158
0
Category:Mongolia 314
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 50
0
Category:Morocco 1,521
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 41
0
Category:Myanmar 727
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 12
0
Category:Nepal 0
0
Category:Netherlands 13
0
Category:New Caledonia 92
0
Category:New Zealand 162
0
Category:Nicaragua 220
0
Category:Niger 61
0
Category:Nigeria 1,502
0
Category:Niue 367
0
Category:North Korea 235
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 20
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 136
0
Category:Pakistan 508
0
Category:Palau 15
0
Category:Palestine 416
0
Category:Panama 0
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 246
0
Category:Paraguay 446
0
Category:Peru 41
0
Category:Philippines 303
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 7
0
Category:Poland 1,420
0
Category:Portugal 0
0
Category:Puerto Rico 149
0
Category:Qatar 123
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 217
0
Category:Romania 58
0
Category:Russia 264
0
Category:Rwanda 5
0
Category:Réunion 89
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 153
0
Category:Saint Lucia 325
0
Category:Saint Martin 4
0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0
0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 48
0
Category:Samoa 91
0
Category:San Marino 167
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia 952
0
Category:Senegal 402
0
Category:Serbia 3
0
Category:Seychelles 0
0
Category:Sierra Leone 47
0
Category:Singapore 1,594
0
Category:Sint Maarten 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 345
0
Category:Slovenia 0
0
Category:Solomon Islands 190
0
Category:Somalia 126
0
Category:South Africa 71
0
Category:South Korea 101
0
Category:South Sudan 187
0
Category:Spain 20
0
Category:Sri Lanka 817
0
Category:Sudan 47
0
Category:Suriname 47
0
Category:Sweden 20
0
Category:Switzerland 0
0
Category:Syria 266
0
Category:Taiwan 338
0
Category:Tajikistan 200
0
Category:Tanzania 633
0
Category:Thailand 865
0
Category:Togo 430
0
Category:Tokelau 22
0
Category:Tonga 198
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 11
0
Category:Tunisia 0
0
Category:Turkey 493
0
Category:Turkmenistan 80
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 40
0
Category:Tuvalu 46
0
Category:Uganda 209
0
Category:Ukraine 1,189
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 836
0
Category:United Kingdom 30
0
Category:United States 4
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 32
0
Category:Uruguay 39
0
Category:Uzbekistan 474
0
Category:Vanuatu 214
0
Category:Venezuela 5
0
Category:Vietnam 1,243
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 20
0
Category:Western Sahara 82
0
Category:Yemen 543
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.
