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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 478
0
764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 1
0
Category:Algeria 516
0
Category:American Samoa 41
0
Category:Andorra 51
0
Category:Angola 84
0
Category:Anguilla 14
0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 70
0
Category:Argentina 7
0
Category:Armenia 360
0
Category:Aruba 29
0
Category:Australia 0
0
Category:Austria 4
0
Category:Azerbaijan 1
0
Category:Bahamas 0
0
Category:Bahrain 157
0
Category:Bangladesh 183
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 689
0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 1
0
Category:Botswana 134
0
Category:Brazil 4,183
0
Category:British Virgin Islands 41
0
Category:Brunei 56
0
Category:Bulgaria 327
0
Category:Burkina Faso 289
0
Category:Burundi 383
0
Category:Cambodia 479
0
Category:Cameroon 314
0
Category:Canada 56
0
Category:Cayman Islands 74
0
Category:Central African Republic 32
0
Category:Chad 276
0
Category:Chile 701
0
Category:China 491
0
Category:Colombia 226
0
Category:Comoros 16
0
Category:Cook Islands 33
0
Category:Costa Rica 55
0
Category:Croatia 2
0
Category:Cuba 31
0
Category:Curacao 0
0
Category:Cyprus 32
0
Category:Czech Republic 2
0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0
0
Category:Denmark 0
0
Category:Djibouti 217
0
Category:Dominica 102
0
Category:Dominican Republic 18
0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 58
0
Category:East Timor 0
0
Category:Ecuador 4,824
0
Category:Egypt 844
0
Category:El Salvador 99
0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 26
0
Category:Eritrea 38
0
Category:Estonia 5
0
Category:Eswatini 41
0
Category:Ethiopia 518
0
Category:Falkland Islands 71
0
Category:Faroe Islands 0
0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 74
0
Category:Fiji 343
0
Category:Finland 2
0
Category:France 0
0
Category:French Guiana 47
0
Category:French Polynesia 123
0
Category:The Gambia 1
0
Category:Georgia 3
0
Category:Germany 5
0
Category:Ghana 2,463
0
Category:Gibraltar 755
0
Category:Greece 95
0
Category:Greenland 58
0
Category:Grenada 106
0
Category:Guadeloupe 16
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 168
0
Category:Honduras 4
0
Category:Hong Kong 145
0
Category:Hungary 31
0
Category:Iceland 1
0
Category:India 0
0
About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 3,606
0
Category:Iran 1,085
0
Category:Ireland 1
0
Category:Isle of Man 377
0
Category:Israel 1,294
0
1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 0
0
Category:Jamaica 169
0
Category:Japan 7
0
Category:Jersey 95
0
Category:Jordan 504
0
Category:Kazakhstan 159
0
Category:Kenya 523
0
Category:Kiribati 147
0
Category:Kosovo 275
0
Category:Kuwait 256
0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 305
0
Category:Laos 147
0
Category:Latvia 91
0
Category:Lebanon 241
0
Category:Lesotho 67
0
Category:Liberia 73
0
Category:Libya 383
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 1,494
0
Category:Malawi 70
0
Category:Malaysia 4,507
0
4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 176
0
Category:Mali 442
0
Category:Malta 209
0
Category:Marshall Islands 87
0
Category:Martinique 61
0
Category:Mauritania 230
0
Category:Mauritius 66
0
Category:Mayotte 12
0
Category:Mexico 2
0
Category:Moldova 28
0
Category:Monaco 157
0
Category:Mongolia 314
0
Category:Montenegro 0
0
Category:Montserrat 49
0
Category:Morocco 1,522
0
728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 33
0
Category:Myanmar 728
0
Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 12
0
Category:Nepal 0
0
Category:Netherlands 16
0
Category:New Caledonia 93
0
Category:New Zealand 162
0
Category:Nicaragua 219
0
Category:Niger 61
0
Category:Nigeria 1,504
0
Category:Niue 367
0
Category:North Korea 230
0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 20
0
Category:Norway 0
0
Category:Oman 137
0
Category:Pakistan 549
0
Category:Palau 14
0
Category:Palestine 415
0
Category:Panama 73
0
Category:Papua New Guinea 246
0
Category:Paraguay 446
0
Category:Peru 56
0
Category:Philippines 288
0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 7
0
Category:Poland 1,422
0
Category:Portugal 0
0
Category:Puerto Rico 137
0
Category:Qatar 123
0
Category:Republic of the Congo 217
0
Category:Romania 61
0
Category:Russia 490
0
Category:Rwanda 5
0
Category:Réunion 1
0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 154
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 92
0
Category:San Marino 167
0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0
0
Category:Saudi Arabia 950
0
Category:Senegal 328
0
Category:Serbia 1
0
Category:Seychelles 0
0
Category:Sierra Leone 47
0
Category:Singapore 1,599
0
Category:Sint Maarten 0
0
redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 362
0
Category:Slovenia 0
0
Category:Solomon Islands 190
0
Category:Somalia 130
0
Category:South Africa 75
0
Category:South Korea 90
0
Category:South Sudan 187
0
Category:Spain 18
0
Category:Sri Lanka 819
0
Category:Sudan 47
0
Category:Suriname 47
0
Category:Sweden 19
0
Category:Switzerland 0
0
Category:Syria 272
0
Category:Taiwan 342
0
Category:Tajikistan 200
0
Category:Tanzania 633
0
Category:Thailand 825
0
Category:Togo 404
0
Category:Tokelau 22
0
Category:Tonga 198
0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 11
0
Category:Tunisia 1
0
Category:Turkey 498
0
Category:Turkmenistan 80
0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 43
0
Category:Tuvalu 46
0
Category:Uganda 211
0
Category:Ukraine 1,265
0
Category:United Arab Emirates 848
0
Category:United Kingdom 30
0
Category:United States 6
0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 32
0
Category:Uruguay 39
0
Category:Uzbekistan 474
0
Category:Vanuatu 214
0
Category:Venezuela 7
0
Category:Vietnam 1,262
0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 20
0
Category:Western Sahara 81
0
Category:Yemen 552
0
Category:Zambia 158
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.
