Author: tmtm

• Date of joining: 1945-11-02
• Expected count from Wikipedia (Teodoro Picado Michalski onwards): 21
• Number in Wikidata: 18
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 5
• Score: 63/80 = 79%

• Date of joining: 1945-10-31
• Expected count from Wikipedia (José Luis Bustamante y Rivero onwards): 20
• Number in Wikidata: 20
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
• Score: 76/76 = 100% 200/200 = 100%

This is an interesting one where the List of Presidents in English Wikipedia is less comprehensive than the equivalent list in Spanish Wikipedia. (Specifically, it omits the 1948 junta). Had Wikidata not been as equally comprehensive, I could easily not have noticed that enwiki was incomplete.

This is another case where the date of joining the UN is earlier than the data of independence, so there may be a slight mismatch in the position data during the British Raj and Dominion of India period. However, as Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister throughout the independence period, this shouldn’t make any difference to our counting.

• Date of joining: 1945-10-30
• Expected count from Wikipedia (all): 18
• Number in Wikidata: 18
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
• Score: 68/68 = 100% 180/180 = 100%

This one is a bit awkward to count in Wikidata, as there’s a lot of duplicate information (e.g. Yasuo Fukuda has two separate “position held” statements for the same term in office), and unlike most other countries where consecutive terms in office tend to be entered as a single “position held” statement, here each one gets a separate entry — see, for example, the four entries for Shinzō Abe. As each has distinct qualifiers that doesn’t apply to the others, I think that’s the correct modelling, even though it makes our counting more difficult. Should this become more common, we’d probably want to tweak our approach more generally.

In some cases (e.g. Toshiki Kaifu) the data is even entered both ways!

• Date of joining: 1956-12-18
• Expected count from Wikipedia (Ichirō Hatoyama onwards): 30
• Number in Wikidata: 30
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 74
• Score: 42/116 = 36% 152/300 = 51%

I think this is the first case where the information is all technically present in Wikidata, but is entered with so much duplication and confusion that it’s very difficult to query, especially in a way that can be consistent across different countries.

This is another one where the “Office Held by Head of Government” data isn’t accurate enough yet. Wikidata currently only knows about the Prime Minister of Tunisia having held this role, but before 1969 the President was the head of government. Only a single person (Habib Bourguiba) was the President throughout the relevant period, which simplifies the counting, so rather than break that out as a whole separate entity below, we’ll simply add one to the number of people who should be findable.

• Date of joining: 1956-11-12
• Expected count from Wikipedia: 15 + 1 (see above)
• Number in Wikidata: 13
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 6
• Score: 118/160 = 74%

• Date of joining: 1956-11-12
• Expected count from Wikipedia (Mbarek Bekkay onwards): 18
• Number in Wikidata: 18
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 7
• Score: 64/68 = 94% 166/180 = 92%

This has a slightly new twist in that where there is no President of the Government in office, there is a period of direct rule by the King. If someone ever decides to model that as the king being Head of Government during those times, then we’d need to update our counts here, but for now we’re simply treating those as legitimate gaps.

(There are also two people listed in Wikidata as having held the office before the office actually existed, but checking for that is out of scope for now.)

• Date of joining: 1955-12-14
• Expected count from Wikipedia (António de Oliveira Salazar onwards): 21
• Number in Wikidata: 20
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 3
• Score: 73/80 = 91% 194/210 = 92%

I think this is the first junta we’ve encountered outside South America.

• Date of joining: 1955-12-14
• Expected count from Wikipedia (John A. Costello onwards): 17
• Number in Wikidata: 17
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
• Score: 64/64 = 100% 170/170 = 100%

• Date of joining: 1955-12-14
• Expected count from Wikipedia (András Hegedüs onwards): 19
• Number in Wikidata: 12
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 5
• Score: 39/72 = 54% 110/190 = 58%

This is another case where we have a separate entity for the country (People’s Republic of Hungary) during the 1949–89 period, and there could possibly be a distinct Prime Minister position for then. As it’s not currently modelled that way, we can simply look at the Prime Minister of Hungary item throughout.

• Date of joining: 1955-12-14
• Expected count from Wikipedia (Urho Kekkonen onwards): 36
• Number in Wikidata: 31
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 28
• Score: 92/140 = 66% 254/360 = 71%

This is the first time the Wikipedia article has had a separate table for “Interim prime ministers”, rather than these being interleaved in the main table. Neither of them appear in the Wikidata list, so I had an initial suspicion that perhaps they were also in Wikidata using an “Interim Prime Minister of Finland”-esque position, but no.