---
language:
- en
license: mit
pretty_name: Wiki-Simple-Cleaned
tags:
- wikipedia
- cleaned
- pretraining
- simple-english
task_categories:
- text-generation
---

# Wiki-Simple-Cleaned

A cleaned version of Simple English Wikipedia.

### Dataset Curation
* **Source:** Based on legacy-datasets/wikipedia.
* **Noise Removal:** Stripped References, See also, External links, and Sources.
* **Formatting:** Headers converted to sentences; newlines and multiple spaces removed.
* **Special Tokens:** Documents wrapped in `<|bos|>{Title}. {Content}<|eos|>`.

### Dataset Structure
* **Format:** Plain text (.txt) where each line is a single document.
* **Content:** Simple English, optimized for models under 500M parameters.
* **Distribution:** ~70% short, ~27% medium, and ~3% long-form articles.