Commons:Categories requiring diffusion

This page has a backlog that requires the attention of experienced editors. (recount)

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

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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

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Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:CommonsRoot 0 0 Top level
Category:Topics 1 0
Category:Categories 7 0
Category:Commons 0 0
Category:Gallery pages 0 0
Category:Audio files 14,725 0
Category:Images 12 0
Category:Videos 946 0
Category:Animations 24 0
Category:Media types 4 0
Category:Media by source 0 0

Topics/Subject/Concepts

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Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Art 6,584 0
Category:Activities 16 0
Category:Culture 1,331 0
Category:History 1,354 0
Category:Objects 35 0
Category:People 21,671 0
Category:Places 3 0
Category:Science 0 0
Category:Society 75 0
Category:Technology 387 0

Continents

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

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Africa 492 0
Category:Asia 0 0
Category:Europe 102 0
Category:North America 0 0
Category:Oceania 12 0
Category:South America 83 0

Countries

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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 482 0 764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 1 0
Category:Algeria 511 0
Category:American Samoa 47 0
Category:Andorra 187 0
Category:Angola 122 0
Category:Anguilla 18 0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 56 0
Category:Argentina 445 0
Category:Armenia 96 0
Category:Aruba 14 0
Category:Australia 2 0
Category:Austria 8 0
Category:Azerbaijan 159 0
Category:Bahamas 0 0
Category:Bahrain 111 0
Category:Bangladesh 73 0
Category:Barbados 196 0
Category:Belarus 505 0
Category:Belgium 0 0
Category:Belize 0 0
Category:Benin 628 0
Category:Bermuda 193 0
Category:Bhutan 529 0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0
Category:Botswana 111 0
Category:Brazil 3,911 0
Category:British Virgin Islands 35 0
Category:Brunei 24 0
Category:Bulgaria 230 0
Category:Burkina Faso 298 0
Category:Burundi 773 0
Category:Cambodia 536 0
Category:Cameroon 490 0
Category:Canada 2 0
Category:Cayman Islands 74 0
Category:Central African Republic 47 0
Category:Chad 135 0
Category:Chile 280 0
Category:China 185 0
Category:Colombia 837 0
Category:Comoros 9 0
Category:Cook Islands 62 0
Category:Costa Rica 17 0
Category:Croatia 1 0
Category:Cuba 18 0
Category:Curacao 0 0
Category:Cyprus 106 0
Category:Czech Republic 14 0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 0 0
Category:Denmark 0 0
Category:Djibouti 219 0
Category:Dominica 112 0
Category:Dominican Republic 16 0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 62 0
Category:East Timor 4 0
Category:Ecuador 4,778 0
Category:Egypt 762 0
Category:El Salvador 71 0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 37 0
Category:Eritrea 40 0
Category:Estonia 1 0
Category:Eswatini 28 0
Category:Ethiopia 440 0
Category:Falkland Islands 32 0
Category:Faroe Islands 0 0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 57 0
Category:Fiji 338 0
Category:Finland 1 0
Category:France 0 0
Category:French Guiana 31 0
Category:French Polynesia 123 0
Category:The Gambia 0 0
Category:Georgia 1 0
Category:Germany 5 0
Category:Ghana 1,352 0
Category:Gibraltar 763 0
Category:Greece 76 0
Category:Greenland 44 0
Category:Grenada 59 0
Category:Guadeloupe 4 0
Category:Guam 128 0
Category:Guatemala 3 0
Category:Guernsey 106 0
Category:Guinea 116 0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 37 0
Category:Guyana 123 0
Category:Haiti 157 0
Category:Honduras 41 0
Category:Hong Kong 178 0
Category:Hungary 48 0
Category:Iceland 2 0
Category:India 129 0 About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 124 0
Category:Iran 1,021 0
Category:Ireland 0 0
Category:Isle of Man 518 0
Category:Israel 1,609 0 1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 5 0
Category:Jamaica 158 0
Category:Japan 614 0
Category:Jersey 91 0
Category:Jordan 509 0
Category:Kazakhstan 134 0
Category:Kenya 490 0
Category:Kiribati 158 0
Category:Kosovo 208 0
Category:Kuwait 193 0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 334 0
Category:Laos 147 0
Category:Latvia 128 0
Category:Lebanon 233 0
Category:Lesotho 54 0
Category:Liberia 71 0
Category:Libya 236 0
Category:Liechtenstein 37 0
Category:Lithuania 36 0
Category:Luxembourg 14 0
Category:Macau 31 0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0 0
Category:Madagascar 185 0
Category:Malawi 57 0
Category:Malaysia 4,252 0 4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 133 0
Category:Mali 453 0
Category:Malta 375 0
Category:Marshall Islands 4 0
Category:Martinique 24 0
Category:Mauritania 232 0
Category:Mauritius 86 0
Category:Mayotte 7 0
Category:Mexico 8 0
Category:Moldova 108 0
Category:Monaco 184 0
Category:Mongolia 278 0
Category:Montenegro 0 0
Category:Montserrat 53 0
Category:Morocco 1,000 0 728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 7 0
Category:Myanmar 467 0 Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 8 0
Category:Nepal 0 0
Category:Netherlands 24 0
Category:New Caledonia 121 0
Category:New Zealand 325 0
Category:Nicaragua 206 0
Category:Niger 57 0
Category:Nigeria 975 0
Category:Niue 552 0
Category:North Korea 239 0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 23 0
Category:Norway 0 0
Category:Oman 83 0
Category:Pakistan 525 0
Category:Palau 10 0
Category:Palestine 520 0
Category:Panama 2 0
Category:Papua New Guinea 220 0
Category:Paraguay 365 0
Category:Peru 172 0
Category:Philippines 2 0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 15 0
Category:Poland 1,532 0
Category:Portugal 0 0
Category:Puerto Rico 228 0
Category:Qatar 106 0
Category:Republic of the Congo 111 0
Category:Romania 54 0
Category:Russia 461 0
Category:Rwanda 13 0
Category:Réunion 56 0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 60 0
Category:Saint Lucia 240 0
Category:Saint Martin 0 0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 39 0
Category:Samoa 73 0
Category:San Marino 164 0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0 0
Category:Saudi Arabia 947 0
Category:Senegal 247 0
Category:Serbia 0 0
Category:Seychelles 0 0
Category:Sierra Leone 37 0
Category:Singapore 1,301 0
Category:Sint Maarten 2 0 redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 212 0
Category:Slovenia 0 0
Category:Solomon Islands 49 0
Category:Somalia 48 0
Category:South Africa 105 0
Category:South Korea 291 0
Category:South Sudan 121 0
Category:Spain 3 0
Category:Sri Lanka 736 0
Category:Sudan 73 0
Category:Suriname 38 0
Category:Sweden 18 0
Category:Switzerland 0 0
Category:Syria 257 0
Category:Taiwan 274 0
Category:Tajikistan 110 0
Category:Tanzania 637 0
Category:Thailand 0 0
Category:Togo 738 0
Category:Tokelau 2 0
Category:Tonga 172 0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 39 0
Category:Tunisia 0 0
Category:Turkey 638 0
Category:Turkmenistan 88 0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 25 0
Category:Tuvalu 34 0
Category:Uganda 68 0
Category:Ukraine 1,239 0
Category:United Arab Emirates 693 0
Category:United Kingdom 8 0
Category:United States 6 0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 30 0
Category:Uruguay 54 0
Category:Uzbekistan 329 0
Category:Vanuatu 200 0
Category:Venezuela 16 0
Category:Vietnam 1,129 0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 17 0
Category:Western Sahara 70 0
Category:Yemen 407 0
Category:Zambia 170 0
Category:Zimbabwe 52 0

Centuries

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(These are probably the more important ones)
Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:17th century 169 0
Category:18th century 172 0
Category:19th century 622 0
Category:20th century 196 0
Category:21st century 17 0
Category:22nd century 0 0
Category:23rd century 0 0
Category:24th century 0 0

Years

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(These are probably the more important ones)
Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:2000 50 0
Category:2001 24 0
Category:2002 28 0
Category:2003 20 0
Category:2004 41 0
Category:2005 28 0
Category:2006 61 0
Category:2007 13 0
Category:2008 6 0
Category:2009 6 0
Category:2010 9 0
Category:2011 6 0
Category:2012 53 0
Category:2013 11 0
Category:2014 97 0
Category:2015 73 0
Category:2016 16 0
Category:2017 20 0
Category:2018 19 0
Category:2019 22 0
Category:2020 6 0
Category:2021 4 0
Category:2022 88 0
Category:2023 332 0
Category:2024 2 0

Notes

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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.

Often, files do not belong into just one subcategory but into multiple subcategories.

See also

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