In case anyone on this list isn&#39;t aware of it, we have a very large categorisation backlog on Commons. The Geograph load of UK images alone includes hundreds of thousands of uncategorised images, and as many only categorised by bot.<br>
<br>However there are some recently improved tools out there that people may not be aware of, so I thought I&#39;d email the United Kingdom and Commons lists to make sure everyone knew about the changes. The UK mailing list is relevant because we have a very large part of the Common categorisation backlog, and it has come up as a problem for our Wiki loves monuments plan.<br>
<br>There have been two major enhancements to Catalot in the last few weeks. <br><br>It now has an autoprompt/complete feature similar to Hotcat to make it much easier to add categories, and crucially for our Geograph backlog, it is now possible to use  Cata a lot on uncategorised Geograph images such as in the categories in <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project_needing_categories_by_grid_square">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project_needing_categories_by_grid_square</a> (Ok you have to copy rather than move as you are replacing a template with a category rather than moving from one category to another).<br>
<br><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot</a><br><br><br>The other big change is that Rillke has written some code to change the way that Hotcat works, so that if you open an a Geograph image that needs its categories checked you can confirm the categories eiter with one click or by using Hotcat to ad or remove a category. Previously Hotcat would remove the Geograph uncategorised template but not the partially categorised template, so if bots  had added some categories you couldn&#39;t remove the cats need review template other than by editing. The Rillke&#39;s js code can be accessed by installing importScript<span class="br0">(</span><span class="st0">&#39;User:Rillke/checkCat.js&#39;</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span><br>
<br>Details at <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:HJ_Mitchell#Check-categories-autoremoval_when_categorizing_with_HotCat">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:HJ_Mitchell#Check-categories-autoremoval_when_categorizing_with_HotCat</a><br>
<br>I&#39;ve been using it, it works well and is many times quicker than confirming categories manually. If everyone who is active on Commons installs it I think we&#39;ll see the backlog reduce quite noticeably.<br><br>Regards<br>
<br>WereSpielChequers<br>