I noticed that PositionHolderHistory doesn’t seem to have been updating the data tables automatically since around the start of February. I believe this is supposed to happen via a Toolforge cronjob, but something there seems to have gone awry. This means that many of the calculations we were making have been based on out of date reports. I’ve gone through each of the report pages, manually triggered a re-run/re-build, and updated our scoring where anything has changed. This probably affected around a third of the scores: many in fairly minor ways, but some quite significantly. Uruguay, for example, rose from 49% to 83%.
I’ve raised the issue on the tool’s Talk page, so that hopefully it gets fixed. In the meantime I’ll need to remember to re-generate existing pages before calculating the score.
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