---
language:
- en
- es
- fr
- de
- it
- pt
- nl
- vi
- tr
- la
- id
- ms
- af
- sq
- is
- no
- sv
- da
- fi
- hu
- pl
- cs
- ro
- ru
- bg
- uk
- sr
- be
- kk
- mk
- mn
- zh
- ja
- ko
- hi
- ur
- bn
- ta
- te
- mr
- gu
- kn
- ml
- pa
- as
- or
- ar
- fa
- ps
- sd
- ug
- el
- he
- hy
- ka
- am
- km
- lo
- my
- th
- si 
- sw 
- ti 
- tl 
- bo 
- dv 
- eu 
- tl
tags:
- wikipedia
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
license: cc-by-sa-3.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
- fill-mask
task_ids:
- language-modeling
- masked-language-modeling

---



# Wikipedia Sentence Snippets

This dataset contains cleaned Wikipedia sentence snippets extracted from multiple languages, by taking only the first half of a Wikipedia article, after filtering for stubs.

## Files
- `en/en.parquet`
- `es/es.parquet`

And others.

## Format
Each parquet contains a `sentence` column.

### Data Splits
All configurations contain a single `train` split.



### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

The dataset is generally used for Language Modeling.

## From `wikimedia/wikipedia`

### Languages

You can find the list of languages here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias



## Dataset Creation

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The dataset is built from the Wikipedia dumps: https://dumps.wikimedia.org

You can find the full list of languages and dates here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html

The articles have been parsed using the [`mwparserfromhell`](https://mwparserfromhell.readthedocs.io) tool.

When uploading the data files for the 20231101 dump, we noticed that the Wikimedia Dumps website does not contain this date dump
for the "bbc", "dga", nor "zgh" Wikipedias. We have reported the issue to the Wikimedia Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351761

### Licensing Information

Copyright licensing information: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/legal.html

All original textual content is licensed under the [GNU Free Documentation License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html) (GFDL)
and the [Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
Some text may be available only under the Creative Commons license; see their [Terms of Use](https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Terms_of_Use) for details.
Text written by some authors may be released under additional licenses or into the public domain.

### Citation Information

```
@ONLINE{wikidump,
    author = "Wikimedia Foundation",
    title  = "Wikimedia Downloads",
    url    = "https://dumps.wikimedia.org"
}
```