Check specialized start/end dates for MPs

[MansMeg]

Problem
A start/end date in the bio books sometimes only refers to a year (e.g. 1964), which means the official start/end of that riksdag year. If a specific start/end dates is stated (e.g. 1964-10-23), that means that the MP started/ended in the middle of a riksdag year. The problem is that we don't know how accurate start/end dates in wikdata are, that is if an MP started/ended according to the riksdag year or in the middle of the year.

During the weekend, I went through the first bio book of the bicameral riksdag and looked up every MP that had a specific start/end date and checked if this date was correct on wikidata. If it was not, I added the specific date. As suspected, quite many MPs missed these specific start/end dates. It “only” took 3–4 hours to go through the whole first bio book. A bonus with this work was that I also found out a couple of MPs that missed i-ort, which I added.

Solution
We should review the last four volumes of the biobooks and check specialized dates.

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5

If we do this, it would be great to also list these people in a separate file for quality control/unit testing. I suggest a file with as following:

wiki_id;specific_date,date_type
Qxxxx,1899-03-12,start_date
Qyyyy,1932-09-11,end_date

Then we can check that these are not changed at Wikidata if we go through the manual part anyway.

More discussion can be found in issue #342 .

We should add the files as a unit test

• add a unit test to check that these dates does not change at wikidata

[fredrik1984]

I will create a file with those columns and add MPs that lack specific dates to that file.

I will also contact Lotta and Mattias and ask them to work on bio book 3–5. I will also ask Lotta to curate the list of start/end dates of riksdag years from 1867 to today.

[MansMeg]

The opposite. Only add those with specific dates (since those are much more rare).

[fredrik1984]

Ah, so I should add ALL MPs that have specific dates on wikidata, including those that I add in this work? I will see how much extra work this will take though. Maybe it is easy.

[MansMeg]

Its just that the stuff that we manually check, we want to keep as unit test because we are sure this is correct. We can discuss the details friday.

[BobBorges]

I will also ask Lotta to curate the list of start/end dates of riksdag years from 1867 to today.

@fredrik1984 I've made such a list from the wikipedia page & plan to open a PR with it tomorrow. Perhaps it will be less work to just criticize that list and propose fixes than to start from 0.

[MansMeg]

Excellent!

[fredrik1984]

@MansMeg – ok, so just MP specific start/end dates that are currently missed on wikidata. That was what I thought.

@BobBorges – yes, that sounds very reasonable! Let me know when that is done and then Lotta can start on that.

[fredrik1984]

Here is a Google Sheet with all MPs from the bio books that have at least one specific start/end date that was missing in Wikidata but has now been corrected. Currently, Fredrik and Mattias have added info from bio books 1–4. When @Lottabrorsson has done the last bio book @BobBorges can do an update.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lm2WR-wc-FWsQV0tbjYfWIng6LjOnvE2xi5R8zwny_U/edit#gid=0

[fredrik1984]

@BobBorges – is this issue ready to be closed?

[MansMeg]

I think we should add a unit test with the files from you, Lotta and Mattias as a final thing before we close this.

[BobBorges]

yes, not ready to close