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  • Scoring: Lithuania

    • Date of joining: 1991-09-17
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Gediminas Vagnorius onwards): 18
    • Number in Wikidata: 18
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 7
    • Score: 166/180 = 92%

    This is another case where different Wikipedias have different lists. The Lithuanian version seems most comprehensive, so I’ve used it as our reference point.

  • Scoring: Latvia

    • Date of joining: 1991-09-17
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Ivars Godmanis onwards): 16
    • Number in Wikidata: 16
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 6
    • Score: 53/60 = 88% 148/160 = 93%

  • Scoring: Estonia

    • Date of joining: 1991-09-17
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Edgar Savisaar onwards): 12
    • Number in Wikidata: 12
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
    • Score: 44/44 = 100% 120/120 = 100%

  • Scoring: Guatemala

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-21
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Juan José Arévalo Bermejo onwards): 28
    • Number in Wikidata: 25
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 12
    • Score: 226/280 = 81%

  • Scoring: Venezuela

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-15
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Rómulo Betancourt onwards): 20
    • Number in Wikidata: 18
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 14
    • Score: 46/76 = 61% 152/200 = 76%

    The current president of Venezuela is still highly contentious, but as Wikidata is quite comfortable holding competing claims, we include both.

  • Scoring: Bolivia

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-14
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Gualberto Villarroel onwards): 34?
    • Number in Wikidata: 27
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 13
    • Score: 83/132 = 63% 244/340 = 72%

    Slightly tricky to count with multiple periods of triumvirates, and acting presidents.

  • Scoring: Cyprus

    • Date of joining: 1960-09-20
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (all): 10
    • Number in Wikidata: 8
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 2
    • Score: 26/36 = 72% 76/100 = 76%

  • Scoring: Mexico

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-07
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Manuel Ávila Camacho onwards): 14
    • Number in Wikidata: 14
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
    • Score: 52/52 = 100% 140/140 = 100%

  • Scoring: Colombia

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-05
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Alfonso López Pumarejo onwards): 20
    • Number in Wikidata: 20
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 12
    • Score: 67/76 = 88% 176/200 = 88%

    This is another case where Spanish Wikipedia has 20 entries but English Wikipedia only has 18.

  • Scoring: Liberia

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-02
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (William Tubman onwards): 12
    • Number in Wikidata: 12
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
    • Score: 44/44 = 100% 120/120 = 100%

    This one is interesting, as Wikidata can correctly give us all the people who were head of government, and gets a perfect score, even though it seems to not be quite correct, as for most of the 1980s and 1990s, the office held by the head of government wasn’t strictly President of Liberia. Should someone add a separate item for the President of the Interim Government of National Unity, then the data will need tidied up a bit more, but within the realm of our current scoring system I think it’s OK to give this 100%.