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.

Top levels[edit]

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:CommonsRoot 0 0 Top level
Category:Topics 3 0
Category:Categories 0 0
Category:Commons 7 0
Category:Gallery pages 0 0
Category:Audio files 12,733 0
Category:Images 71 0
Category:Videos 143 0
Category:Animations 9 0
Category:Media types 26 0
Category:Media by source 7 0

Topics/Subject/Concepts[edit]

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Art 7,916 0
Category:Activities 2 0
Category:Culture 909 0
Category:History 2,114 0
Category:Objects 11 0
Category:People 161 0
Category:Places 44 0
Category:Science 0 0
Category:Society 111 0
Category:Technology 441 0

Continents[edit]

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

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Africa 424 0
Category:Asia 3 0
Category:Europe 87 0
Category:North America 1 0
Category:Oceania 2 0
Category:South America 52 0

Countries[edit]

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

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Afghanistan 447 0 764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 19 0
Category:Algeria 431 0
Category:American Samoa 49 0
Category:Andorra 64 0
Category:Angola 83 0
Category:Anguilla 8 0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 58 0
Category:Argentina 303 0
Category:Armenia 86 0
Category:Aruba 116 0
Category:Australia 0 0
Category:Austria 3 0
Category:Azerbaijan 78 0
Category:Bahamas 0 0
Category:Bahrain 88 0
Category:Bangladesh 208 0
Category:Barbados 345 0
Category:Belarus 0 0
Category:Belgium 0 0
Category:Belize 0 0
Category:Benin 1,202 0
Category:Bermuda 156 0
Category:Bhutan 551 0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0
Category:Botswana 208 0
Category:Brazil 2,082 0
Category:British Virgin Islands 18 0
Category:Brunei 13 0
Category:Bulgaria 170 0
Category:Burkina Faso 142 0
Category:Burundi 503 0
Category:Cambodia 506 0
Category:Cameroon 208 0
Category:Canada 5 0
Category:Cayman Islands 61 0
Category:Central African Republic 77 0
Category:Chad 99 0
Category:Chile 278 0
Category:China 100 0
Category:Colombia 805 0
Category:Comoros 8 0
Category:Cook Islands 72 0
Category:Costa Rica 15 0
Category:Croatia 60 0
Category:Cuba 162 0
Category:Curacao 0 0
Category:Cyprus 126 0
Category:Czech Republic 30 0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0 0
Category:Denmark 0 0
Category:Djibouti 128 0
Category:Dominica 116 0
Category:Dominican Republic 658 0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 129 0
Category:East Timor 1 0
Category:Ecuador 155 0
Category:Egypt 373 0
Category:El Salvador 111 0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 23 0
Category:Eritrea 31 0
Category:Estonia 22 0
Category:Eswatini 20 0
Category:Ethiopia 549 0
Category:Falkland Islands 5 0
Category:Faroe Islands 0 0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 53 0
Category:Fiji 395 0
Category:Finland 19 0
Category:France 5 0
Category:French Guiana 17 0
Category:French Polynesia 98 0
Category:The Gambia 1 0
Category:Georgia 62 0
Category:Germany 9 0
Category:Ghana 918 0
Category:Gibraltar 796 0
Category:Greece 120 0
Category:Greenland 320 0
Category:Grenada 50 0
Category:Guadeloupe 57 0
Category:Guam 78 0
Category:Guatemala 2 0
Category:Guernsey 102 0
Category:Guinea 8 0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 9 0
Category:Guyana 132 0
Category:Haiti 480 0
Category:Honduras 17 0
Category:Hong Kong 951 0
Category:Hungary 38 0
Category:Iceland 1 0
Category:India 0 0 About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 238 0
Category:Iran 689 0
Category:Ireland 0 0
Category:Isle of Man 552 0
Category:Israel 401 0 1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 209 0
Category:Jamaica 80 0
Category:Japan 863 0
Category:Jersey 111 0
Category:Jordan 579 0
Category:Kazakhstan 68 0
Category:Kenya 420 0
Category:Kiribati 163 0
Category:Kosovo 210 0
Category:Kuwait 193 0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 231 0
Category:Laos 630 0
Category:Latvia 44 0
Category:Lebanon 275 0
Category:Lesotho 57 0
Category:Liberia 77 0
Category:Libya 179 0
Category:Liechtenstein 259 0
Category:Lithuania 72 0
Category:Luxembourg 30 0
Category:Macau 135 0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0 0
Category:Madagascar 17 0
Category:Malawi 58 0
Category:Malaysia 3,983 0 4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 429 0
Category:Mali 434 0
Category:Malta 474 0
Category:Marshall Islands 169 0
Category:Martinique 23 0
Category:Mauritania 63 0
Category:Mauritius 103 0
Category:Mayotte 9 0
Category:Mexico 0 0
Category:Moldova 16 0
Category:Monaco 411 0
Category:Mongolia 152 0
Category:Montenegro 74 0
Category:Montserrat 78 0
Category:Morocco 774 0 728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 122 0
Category:Myanmar 531 0 Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 7 0
Category:Nepal 0 0
Category:Netherlands 14 0
Category:New Caledonia 111 0
Category:New Zealand 98 0
Category:Nicaragua 156 0
Category:Niger 26 0
Category:Nigeria 660 0
Category:Niue 89 0
Category:North Korea 255 0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 21 0
Category:Norway 0 0
Category:Oman 57 0
Category:Pakistan 650 0
Category:Palau 30 0
Category:Palestine 424 0
Category:Panama 3 0
Category:Papua New Guinea 226 0
Category:Paraguay 328 0
Category:Peru 228 0
Category:Philippines 8 0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 14 0
Category:Poland 2,429 0
Category:Portugal 0 0
Category:Puerto Rico 521 0
Category:Qatar 86 0
Category:Republic of the Congo 36 0
Category:Romania 37 0
Category:Russia 1,050 0
Category:Rwanda 1,201 0
Category:Réunion 12 0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 290 0
Category:Saint Lucia 267 0
Category:Saint Martin 12 0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 128 0
Category:Samoa 73 0
Category:San Marino 140 0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0 0
Category:Saudi Arabia 780 0
Category:Senegal 104 0
Category:Serbia 2 0
Category:Seychelles 4 0
Category:Sierra Leone 34 0
Category:Singapore 1,242 0
Category:Sint Maarten 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 46 0
Category:Slovenia 14 0
Category:Solomon Islands 46 0
Category:Somalia 200 0
Category:South Africa 415 0
Category:South Korea 72 0
Category:South Sudan 102 0
Category:Spain 67 0
Category:Sri Lanka 752 0
Category:Sudan 515 0
Category:Suriname 22 0
Category:Sweden 38 0
Category:Switzerland 2 0
Category:Syria 243 0
Category:Taiwan 72 0
Category:Tajikistan 77 0
Category:Tanzania 728 0
Category:Thailand 256 0
Category:Togo 87 0
Category:Tokelau 13 0
Category:Tonga 162 0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 29 0
Category:Tunisia 0 0
Category:Turkey 61 0
Category:Turkmenistan 135 0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 17 0
Category:Tuvalu 40 0
Category:Uganda 587 0
Category:Ukraine 371 0
Category:United Arab Emirates 557 0
Category:United Kingdom 5 0
Category:United States 829 0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 44 0
Category:Uruguay 100 0
Category:Uzbekistan 330 0
Category:Vanuatu 245 0
Category:Venezuela 5 0
Category:Vietnam 942 0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 19 0
Category:Western Sahara 45 0
Category:Yemen 411 0
Category:Zambia 257 0
Category:Zimbabwe 59 0

Centuries[edit]

(These are probably the more important ones)
Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:17th century 170 0
Category:18th century 163 0
Category:19th century 577 0
Category:20th century 174 0
Category:21st century 19 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 52 0
Category:2001 22 0
Category:2002 37 0
Category:2003 22 0
Category:2004 41 0
Category:2005 20 0
Category:2006 61 0
Category:2007 5 0
Category:2008 4 0
Category:2009 0 0
Category:2010 1 0
Category:2011 1 0
Category:2012 47 0
Category:2013 4 0
Category:2014 10 0
Category:2015 2 0
Category:2016 5 0
Category:2017 5 0
Category:2018 8 0
Category:2019 6 0
Category:2020 3 0
Category:2021 11 0
Category:2022 64 0
Category:2023 132 0
Category:2024 0 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]