Category: Uncategorized

• Date of joining: 1973-09-18
• Expected count from Wikipedia (Willy Brandt onwards): 6 (including Walter Scheel as Acting Chancellor)
• Number in Wikidata: 6
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 2
• Score: 56/60 = 93%

Wikidata currently only knows about the President being Head of Government; however from 1957–60 and 1969–72 this was the Prime Minister.

• Date of joining: 1957-03-08
• Expected count from Wikipedia (Kwame Nkrumah onwards): 13 + 2 Prime Ministers.
• Number in Wikidata: 13
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 5
• Score: 120/150 = 80%

For our current purposes I’ve taken the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 2004 as our starting point. In that period, Wikidata currently only knows about the Chief Executive, although the President has been Head of Government for most of it.

• Start date: 2004-12-07
• Expected count from Wikipedia: 1 + 2 presidents
• Number in Wikidata: 1
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
• Score: 10/30 = 33%

Although the “office held by Head of Government” lists both the Prime Minister and President, the history is more complicated than this, with the position of Prime Minister being abolished multiple times during its period.

• Start: 1990-03-01 (replacing the People’s Republic of Benin)

Prime Minister (1960-08-01 – 2016-04-06)

• Expected count from Wikipedia (Nicéphore Soglo onwards): 4 (+4 whilst abolished)
• Number in Wikidata: 1
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 1

President (2016-04-06 -)

• Expected count from Wikipedia (Mathieu Kérékou onwards): 5
• Number in Wikidata: 5
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 1

Combined Score: 56/130 = 43%

• Date of joining: 1966-10-17
• Expected count from Wikipedia (all): 5
• Number in Wikidata: 5
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
• Score: 50/50 = 100%

NB: The “office held by head of government” currently states that the “Prime Minister of Botswana” held this position between 3 March 1965 and 30 September 1966. This is backed up by the item for the Prime Minister. However, this is somewhat anachronistic, as Botswana only became a country on 30 September 1966: until then it was Bechuanaland. As this is all before UN Membership it isn’t directly relevant here, but it would be nice to clean up.

• Relevant date: 1992-03-15
• Expected count from Wikipedia (André Milongo onwards): 8 + 2? whilst office abolished.
• Number in Wikidata: 2
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 2
• Score: 16/100 = 16%

Although completely inconsistent with how I handled DRC/Zaire, here I’m only counting from the end of the People’s Republic of the Congo (though we do have the same issue here where the main article is both the precursor and successor of the intermediate state.)

There are again several periods when the office of Prime Minister was abolished. I’m presuming a single other head of government during each of those, though that isn’t entirely clear.

• Date of joining: 1960-09-20
• Expected count from Wikipedia (Justin Marie Bomboko onwards): 32
• Number in Wikidata: 10
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 5
• Score: 90/320 = 28%

This is tricky as there is a distinct item for Zaire as a country between 1971 and 1997. However, it both “replaces” and is “replaced by” Q974 (the primary DRC item). Perhaps there should be a separate item for the earlier DRC?

This is also the first time I’ve seen a Head of Government leave office on the same day that the country joined the UN. As it’s not clear whether they should then be counted or not, I’ve omitted them.

There have also been periods when the Head of Government has been the Chairman of the College of Commissioners-General and the First State Commissioner (though this is not currently reflected in the “Office Held by Head of Government” information), and several where I can’t easily figure out who was the Head of Government, so the “expected” figure here is quite likely an undercount. (This isn’t helped by French Wikipedia and English Wikipedia disagreeing in quite a few places.)

• Date of joining: 2011-07-14
• Expected count from Wikipedia: 1
• Number in Wikidata: 1
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
• Score: 10/10 = 100%

• Date of joining: 2011-09-16 (replacing the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
• Expected count from Wikipedia (Mahmoud Jibril onwards): 11
• Number in Wikidata: 6
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 4
• Score: 52/110 = 47%

As with Venezuela and Yemen, there are competing governments and office-holders.

• Date of joining: 1960-09-20
• Expected count from Wikipedia (all): 12
• Number in Wikidata: 8
• PositionHolderHistory warnings: 4
• Score: 72/120 = 60%

The post of Prime Minister was abolished between 1960 and 1990, although Félix Houphouët-Boigny seems to have continued to be Head of Government, as President, throughout. The “office held by Head of Government” does not currently reflect this period.