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  • Scoring: Austria

    • Date of joining: 1955-12-14
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Julius Raab onwards): 16
    • Number in Wikidata: 13
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 5
    • Score: 39/60 = 65% 120/160 = 75%

  • Scoring: Albania

    There’s a potential complication here in that the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania (1944-1991) has a separate Wikidata item, and currently the Prime Minister position spans both entities, and it’s likely that someone will split that in two at some point. But for now we can just look at the single position.

    • Date of joining: 1955-12-14
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Mehmet Shehu onwards): 14
    • Number in Wikidata: 13
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 9
    • Score: 39/52= 75% 112/140 = 80%

  • Scoring: Sweden

    • Date of joining: 1946-11-19
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Tage Erlander onwards): 12
    • Number in Wikidata: 12
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
    • Score: 44/44 = 100% 120/120 = 100%

  • Scoring: Iceland

    • Date of joining: 1946-11-19
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Ólafur Tryggvason Thors onwards): 28
    • Number in Wikidata: 28
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 2
    • Score: 106/108 = 98% 276/280 = 99%

  • Scoring: Belgium

    • Date of joining: 1945-12-27
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Achille Van Acker onwards): 29
    • Number in Wikidata: 29
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 9
    • Score: 272/290 = 94%

  • Scoring: Norway

    Interestingly, Wikidata has separate items for “list of heads of government of Norway” and “list of prime ministers of Norway”. The latter has no equivalent English Wikipedia page, so doesn’t get returned from our SPARQL.

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-27
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Einar Gerhardsen onwards): 21
    • Number in Wikidata: 21
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
    • Score: 80/80 = 100% = 210/210 = 100%

  • Scoring: Canada

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-09
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (William Lyon Mackenzie King onwards): 14
    • Number in Wikidata: 14
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
    • Score: 52/52 = 100% 140/140 = 100%

  • Scoring: Australia

    From what I can tell, all of the remaining founding members have enough complications to defer scoring them until we’ve resolved some of the outstanding questions. So let’s move on to countries who joined a bit later, starting with Australia.

    • Date of joining: 1945-11-01
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Ben Chifley onwards): 17
    • Number in Wikidata: 17
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 0
    • Score: 64/64 = 100% = 170/170 = 100%

  • Scoring: Argentina

    As with most of its neighbours, the various juntas etc complicate things, so we’re only looking (for now) at the President.

    • Date of joining: 1945-10-24
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Edelmiro Julián Farrell onwards): 30?
    • Number in Wikidata: 30
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 13
    • Score: 109/116 = 94% 274/300 = 91%

  • Scoring: Paraguay

    • Date of joining: 1945-10-24
    • Expected count from Wikipedia (Higinio Morínigo onwards): 17
    • Number in Wikidata: 9
    • PositionHolderHistory warnings: 4
    • Score: 21/64 = 33% 82/170 = 48%