Commons:Categories requiring diffusion

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At present (2015-03), because the gallery pages are very poorly developed, the main method of browsing Wikimedia Commons (as opposed to searching) is via the category system. Unfortunately categorisation is very poorly done so the ability to browse Wikimedia Commons effectively is severely compromised. This page has been developed to allow the ease of maintaining some of the more important categories.

More information is below these tables.

Maintenance list[edit]

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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Top levels[edit]

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:CommonsRoot 0 0 Top level
Category:Topics 0 0
Category:Categories 0 0
Category:Commons 0 0
Category:Gallery pages 0 0
Category:Audio files 13,738 0
Category:Images 3 0
Category:Videos 897 0
Category:Animations 9 0
Category:Media types 0 0
Category:Media by source 0 0

Topics/Subject/Concepts[edit]

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Art 6,542 0
Category:Activities 16 0
Category:Culture 870 0
Category:History 1,223 0
Category:Objects 34 0
Category:People 2,573 0
Category:Places 96 0
Category:Science 1 0
Category:Society 72 0
Category:Technology 394 0

Continents[edit]

It is unlikely to find an file in a continent category that cannot be subcategorised.

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Africa 337 0
Category:Asia 1 0
Category:Europe 180 0
Category:North America 0 0
Category:Oceania 4 0
Category:South America 66 0

Countries[edit]

It is unlikely to find an file in a country category that cannot be subcategorised.

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Afghanistan 494 0 764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 0 0
Category:Algeria 498 0
Category:American Samoa 50 0
Category:Andorra 60 0
Category:Angola 92 0
Category:Anguilla 9 0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 66 0
Category:Argentina 421 0
Category:Armenia 118 0
Category:Aruba 31 0
Category:Australia 10 0
Category:Austria 1 0
Category:Azerbaijan 202 0
Category:Bahamas 0 0
Category:Bahrain 109 0
Category:Bangladesh 127 0
Category:Barbados 186 0
Category:Belarus 0 0
Category:Belgium 0 0
Category:Belize 0 0
Category:Benin 427 0
Category:Bermuda 163 0
Category:Bhutan 579 0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0
Category:Botswana 205 0
Category:Brazil 2,142 0
Category:British Virgin Islands 34 0
Category:Brunei 20 0
Category:Bulgaria 236 0
Category:Burkina Faso 205 0
Category:Burundi 309 0
Category:Cambodia 516 0
Category:Cameroon 141 0
Category:Canada 1 0
Category:Cayman Islands 64 0
Category:Central African Republic 89 0
Category:Chad 44 0
Category:Chile 282 0
Category:China 54 0
Category:Colombia 829 0
Category:Comoros 9 0
Category:Cook Islands 71 0
Category:Costa Rica 30 0
Category:Croatia 69 0
Category:Cuba 28 0
Category:Curacao 0 0
Category:Cyprus 185 0
Category:Czech Republic 4 0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0 0
Category:Denmark 0 0
Category:Djibouti 217 0
Category:Dominica 116 0
Category:Dominican Republic 9 0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 153 0
Category:East Timor 46 0
Category:Ecuador 352 0
Category:Egypt 1,005 0
Category:El Salvador 143 0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 26 0
Category:Eritrea 67 0
Category:Estonia 0 0
Category:Eswatini 22 0
Category:Ethiopia 369 0
Category:Falkland Islands 22 0
Category:Faroe Islands 0 0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 57 0
Category:Fiji 391 0
Category:Finland 1 0
Category:France 3 0
Category:French Guiana 27 0
Category:French Polynesia 126 0
Category:The Gambia 0 0
Category:Georgia 123 0
Category:Germany 3 0
Category:Ghana 1,303 0
Category:Gibraltar 693 0
Category:Greece 33 0
Category:Greenland 121 0
Category:Grenada 60 0
Category:Guadeloupe 69 0
Category:Guam 91 0
Category:Guatemala 5 0
Category:Guernsey 103 0
Category:Guinea 24 0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 10 0
Category:Guyana 127 0
Category:Haiti 121 0
Category:Honduras 53 0
Category:Hong Kong 815 0
Category:Hungary 63 0
Category:Iceland 1 0
Category:India 20 0 About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 618 0
Category:Iran 877 0
Category:Ireland 0 0
Category:Isle of Man 586 0
Category:Israel 436 0 1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 2 0
Category:Jamaica 171 0
Category:Japan 838 0
Category:Jersey 107 0
Category:Jordan 450 0
Category:Kazakhstan 133 0
Category:Kenya 492 0
Category:Kiribati 158 0
Category:Kosovo 222 0
Category:Kuwait 196 0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 296 0
Category:Laos 626 0
Category:Latvia 23 0
Category:Lebanon 281 0
Category:Lesotho 56 0
Category:Liberia 74 0
Category:Libya 197 0
Category:Liechtenstein 121 0
Category:Lithuania 83 0
Category:Luxembourg 43 0
Category:Macau 56 0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0 0
Category:Madagascar 96 0
Category:Malawi 60 0
Category:Malaysia 4,193 0 4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 113 0
Category:Mali 447 0
Category:Malta 227 0
Category:Marshall Islands 173 0
Category:Martinique 24 0
Category:Mauritania 218 0
Category:Mauritius 74 0
Category:Mayotte 3 0
Category:Mexico 6 0
Category:Moldova 130 0
Category:Monaco 136 0
Category:Mongolia 324 0
Category:Montenegro 0 0
Category:Montserrat 51 0
Category:Morocco 966 0 728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 75 0
Category:Myanmar 568 0 Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 8 0
Category:Nepal 0 0
Category:Netherlands 14 0
Category:New Caledonia 119 0
Category:New Zealand 200 0
Category:Nicaragua 181 0
Category:Niger 38 0
Category:Nigeria 919 0
Category:Niue 90 0
Category:North Korea 243 0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 22 0
Category:Norway 0 0
Category:Oman 34 0
Category:Pakistan 672 0
Category:Palau 31 0
Category:Palestine 433 0
Category:Panama 1 0
Category:Papua New Guinea 242 0
Category:Paraguay 294 0
Category:Peru 48 0
Category:Philippines 4 0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 12 0
Category:Poland 2,352 0
Category:Portugal 0 0
Category:Puerto Rico 211 0
Category:Qatar 103 0
Category:Republic of the Congo 46 0
Category:Romania 66 0
Category:Russia 442 0
Category:Rwanda 11 0
Category:Réunion 28 0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 56 0
Category:Saint Lucia 290 0
Category:Saint Martin 13 0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 40 0
Category:Samoa 81 0
Category:San Marino 151 0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0 0
Category:Saudi Arabia 844 0
Category:Senegal 299 0
Category:Serbia 113 0
Category:Seychelles 2 0
Category:Sierra Leone 34 0
Category:Singapore 1,491 0
Category:Sint Maarten 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 257 0
Category:Slovenia 8 0
Category:Solomon Islands 50 0
Category:Somalia 252 0
Category:South Africa 34 0
Category:South Korea 79 0
Category:South Sudan 121 0
Category:Spain 0 0
Category:Sri Lanka 815 0
Category:Sudan 528 0
Category:Suriname 38 0
Category:Sweden 22 0
Category:Switzerland 0 0
Category:Syria 243 0
Category:Taiwan 279 0
Category:Tajikistan 81 0
Category:Tanzania 667 0
Category:Thailand 307 0
Category:Togo 271 0
Category:Tokelau 14 0
Category:Tonga 165 0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 32 0
Category:Tunisia 0 0
Category:Turkey 257 0
Category:Turkmenistan 119 0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 21 0
Category:Tuvalu 40 0
Category:Uganda 276 0
Category:Ukraine 1,240 0
Category:United Arab Emirates 615 0
Category:United Kingdom 25 0
Category:United States 670 0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 22 0
Category:Uruguay 48 0
Category:Uzbekistan 287 0
Category:Vanuatu 198 0
Category:Venezuela 136 0
Category:Vietnam 1,058 0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 13 0
Category:Western Sahara 48 0
Category:Yemen 437 0
Category:Zambia 256 0
Category:Zimbabwe 35 0

Centuries[edit]

(These are probably the more important ones)
Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:17th century 176 0
Category:18th century 166 0
Category:19th century 590 0
Category:20th century 183 0
Category:21st century 20 0
Category:22st century 0 0
Category:23st century 0 0
Category:24st century 0 0

Years[edit]

(These are probably the more important ones)
Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:2000 51 0
Category:2001 23 0
Category:2002 35 0
Category:2003 22 0
Category:2004 39 0
Category:2005 24 0
Category:2006 60 0
Category:2007 9 0
Category:2008 4 0
Category:2009 4 0
Category:2010 6 0
Category:2011 3 0
Category:2012 51 0
Category:2013 10 0
Category:2014 101 0
Category:2015 74 0
Category:2016 10 0
Category:2017 11 0
Category:2018 16 0
Category:2019 13 0
Category:2020 11 0
Category:2021 10 0
Category:2022 98 0
Category:2023 336 0
Category:2024 1 0

Notes[edit]

The templates {{Categorise}} and {{CatDiffuse}} are used on some of the categories that need maintenance. They appear to be ignored by editors, including uploaders, and are unnecessary clutter for the viewers of Wikimedia Commons.

The tables above are for some of the more important categories. {{MetaCat}} and {{CatCat}} are used on categories which should only contain subcategories. 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}} to mark it for other editors to resolve.

As of November 2022 Category:Categories requiring permanent diffusion to zero has 12,733 entries.

See also[edit]