Commons:Categories requiring diffusion

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 1 0 Top level
Category:Topics 0 0
Category:Categories 0 0
Category:Commons 0 0
Category:Gallery pages 0 0
Category:Audio files 13,674 0
Category:Images 15 0
Category:Videos 895 0
Category:Animations 13 0
Category:Media types 2 0
Category:Media by source 6 0

Topics/Subject/Concepts edit

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Art 6,405 0
Category:Activities 16 0
Category:Culture 1,145 0
Category:History 1,268 0
Category:Objects 31 0
Category:People 3,264 0
Category:Places 114 0
Category:Science 0 0
Category:Society 78 0
Category:Technology 407 0

Continents edit

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

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Africa 372 0
Category:Asia 0 0
Category:Europe 411 0
Category:North America 9 0
Category:Oceania 4 0
Category:South America 67 0

Countries edit

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

Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:Afghanistan 484 0 764 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Albania 0 0
Category:Algeria 487 0
Category:American Samoa 50 0
Category:Andorra 62 0
Category:Angola 104 0
Category:Anguilla 10 0
Category:Antigua and Barbuda 65 0
Category:Argentina 447 0
Category:Armenia 108 0
Category:Aruba 5 0
Category:Australia 3 0
Category:Austria 11 0
Category:Azerbaijan 213 0
Category:Bahamas 0 0
Category:Bahrain 108 0
Category:Bangladesh 70 0
Category:Barbados 189 0
Category:Belarus 0 0
Category:Belgium 0 0
Category:Belize 1 0
Category:Benin 722 0
Category:Bermuda 165 0
Category:Bhutan 582 0
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0
Category:Botswana 77 0
Category:Brazil 2,128 0
Category:British Virgin Islands 34 0
Category:Brunei 20 0
Category:Bulgaria 275 0
Category:Burkina Faso 223 0
Category:Burundi 343 0
Category:Cambodia 543 0
Category:Cameroon 186 0
Category:Canada 12 0
Category:Cayman Islands 65 0
Category:Central African Republic 50 0
Category:Chad 44 0
Category:Chile 222 0
Category:China 175 0
Category:Colombia 843 0
Category:Comoros 9 0
Category:Cook Islands 71 0
Category:Costa Rica 1 0
Category:Croatia 59 0
Category:Cuba 5 0
Category:Curacao 0 0
Category:Cyprus 199 0
Category:Czech Republic 7 0
Category:Côte d'Ivoire 1 0
Category:Denmark 0 0
Category:Djibouti 223 0
Category:Dominica 110 0
Category:Dominican Republic 17 0
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo 123 0
Category:East Timor 0 0
Category:Ecuador 407 0
Category:Egypt 683 0
Category:El Salvador 68 0
Category:Equatorial Guinea 27 0
Category:Eritrea 66 0
Category:Estonia 0 0
Category:Eswatini 25 0
Category:Ethiopia 481 0
Category:Falkland Islands 24 0
Category:Faroe Islands 0 0
Category:Federated States of Micronesia 56 0
Category:Fiji 393 0
Category:Finland 143 0
Category:France 5 0
Category:French Guiana 26 0
Category:French Polynesia 122 0
Category:The Gambia 0 0
Category:Georgia 107 0
Category:Germany 17 0
Category:Ghana 706 0
Category:Gibraltar 694 0
Category:Greece 12 0
Category:Greenland 51 0
Category:Grenada 59 0
Category:Guadeloupe 73 0
Category:Guam 93 0
Category:Guatemala 3 0
Category:Guernsey 104 0
Category:Guinea 498 0
Category:Guinea-Bissau 16 0
Category:Guyana 126 0
Category:Haiti 132 0
Category:Honduras 2 0
Category:Hong Kong 615 0
Category:Hungary 40 0
Category:Iceland 1 0
Category:India 15 0 About 2000 added in June 2016
Category:Indonesia 631 0
Category:Iran 1,018 0
Category:Ireland 0 0
Category:Isle of Man 572 0
Category:Israel 479 0 1,157 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Italy 3 0
Category:Jamaica 171 0
Category:Japan 972 0
Category:Jersey 107 0
Category:Jordan 470 0
Category:Kazakhstan 150 0
Category:Kenya 478 0
Category:Kiribati 158 0
Category:Kosovo 193 0
Category:Kuwait 196 0
Category:Kyrgyzstan 307 0
Category:Laos 629 0
Category:Latvia 49 0
Category:Lebanon 284 0
Category:Lesotho 56 0
Category:Liberia 73 0
Category:Libya 200 0
Category:Liechtenstein 117 0
Category:Lithuania 5 0
Category:Luxembourg 19 0
Category:Macau 16 0
Category:Republic of Macedonia 0 0
Category:Madagascar 155 0
Category:Malawi 63 0
Category:Malaysia 4,196 0 4,642 as at
Category:Maldives 123 0
Category:Mali 453 0
Category:Malta 278 0
Category:Marshall Islands 174 0
Category:Martinique 27 0
Category:Mauritania 222 0
Category:Mauritius 74 0
Category:Mayotte 3 0
Category:Mexico 1 0
Category:Moldova 107 0
Category:Monaco 135 0
Category:Mongolia 356 0
Category:Montenegro 2 0
Category:Montserrat 50 0
Category:Morocco 963 0 728 as of 2015-01-24
Category:Mozambique 76 0
Category:Myanmar 698 0 Category:Burma is a redirect
Category:Nauru 8 0
Category:Nepal 0 0
Category:Netherlands 19 0
Category:New Caledonia 119 0
Category:New Zealand 245 0
Category:Nicaragua 6 0
Category:Niger 53 0
Category:Nigeria 905 0
Category:Niue 91 0
Category:North Korea 240 0
Category:Northern Mariana Islands 22 0
Category:Norway 0 0
Category:Oman 69 0
Category:Pakistan 681 0
Category:Palau 6 0
Category:Palestine 440 0
Category:Panama 1 0
Category:Papua New Guinea 239 0
Category:Paraguay 311 0
Category:Peru 75 0
Category:Philippines 6 0
Category:Pitcairn Islands 13 0
Category:Poland 2,107 0
Category:Portugal 3 0
Category:Puerto Rico 222 0
Category:Qatar 107 0
Category:Republic of the Congo 37 0
Category:Romania 65 0
Category:Russia 386 0
Category:Rwanda 1 0
Category:Réunion 38 0
Category:Saint Barthelemy 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Saint Helena 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis 70 0
Category:Saint Lucia 284 0
Category:Saint Martin 13 0
Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 0
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 41 0
Category:Samoa 88 0
Category:San Marino 151 0
Category:Sao Tome and Principe 0 0
Category:Saudi Arabia 944 0
Category:Senegal 320 0
Category:Serbia 9 0
Category:Seychelles 2 0
Category:Sierra Leone 34 0
Category:Singapore 1,275 0
Category:Sint Maarten 0 0 redirect needed?
Category:Slovakia 194 0
Category:Slovenia 6 0
Category:Solomon Islands 52 0
Category:Somalia 278 0
Category:South Africa 38 0
Category:South Korea 156 0
Category:South Sudan 120 0
Category:Spain 0 0
Category:Sri Lanka 829 0
Category:Sudan 551 0
Category:Suriname 46 0
Category:Sweden 10 0
Category:Switzerland 3 0
Category:Syria 264 0
Category:Taiwan 283 0
Category:Tajikistan 99 0
Category:Tanzania 702 0
Category:Thailand 359 0
Category:Togo 286 0
Category:Tokelau 14 0
Category:Tonga 172 0
Category:Trinidad and Tobago 34 0
Category:Tunisia 0 0
Category:Turkey 152 0
Category:Turkmenistan 88 0
Category:Turks and Caicos Islands 23 0
Category:Tuvalu 39 0
Category:Uganda 25 0
Category:Ukraine 1,367 0
Category:United Arab Emirates 632 0
Category:United Kingdom 232 0
Category:United States 423 0
Category:United States Virgin Islands 22 0
Category:Uruguay 51 0
Category:Uzbekistan 323 0
Category:Vanuatu 198 0
Category:Venezuela 91 0
Category:Vietnam 1,148 0
Category:Wallis and Futuna 14 0
Category:Western Sahara 61 0
Category:Yemen 454 0
Category:Zambia 161 0
Category:Zimbabwe 47 0

Centuries edit

(These are probably the more important ones)
Category Current Suggested Notes
Category:17th century 170 0
Category:18th century 177 0
Category:19th century 606 0
Category:20th century 190 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 31 0
Category:2003 21 0
Category:2004 39 0
Category:2005 27 0
Category:2006 63 0
Category:2007 11 0
Category:2008 8 0
Category:2009 5 0
Category:2010 8 0
Category:2011 7 0
Category:2012 52 0
Category:2013 14 0
Category:2014 104 0
Category:2015 74 0
Category:2016 11 0
Category:2017 11 0
Category:2018 19 0
Category:2019 16 0
Category:2020 9 0
Category:2021 8 0
Category:2022 88 0
Category:2023 334 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