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   - split: 2007_q3_09
     path: en/2007_q3_09-*
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+# Wikinews
+
+The dataset contains news articles from Wikinews in different languages.
+Each article is associated with metadata like title, url, and date.
+The articles grouped into data splits by the article month, quarter, and year (the date is one mentioned in the article text, changes might have been after, see revision timestamp).
+The dataset config name defines the language.
+
+## Usage
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+# all English news from 2008
+ds = load_dataset("malteos/wikinews", config_name="en", split="2008")
+
+# all German news from January 2017
+ds = load_dataset("malteos/wikinews", config_name="de", split="2017_q1_01")
+
+```
+
+## Languages
+
+- en
+- es
+- fr
+- it
+- de
+
+## License
+
+All text created after September 25, 2005 available under the terms of the [Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/).