sagorsarker/bangla-wikipedia

📚 Bangla Wikipedia Dump

This dataset contains a cleaned and processed version of the Bangla Wikipedia dump, structured for easy use in Natural Language Processing tasks such as language modeling, text classification, and content generation.

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Getting Started

To download full datasets:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("sagorsarker/bangla-wikipedia")

To download a subset or specific version:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("sagorsarker/bangla-wikipedia", data_dir="<subset_name>")
# example
# dataset = load_dataset("sagorsarker/bangla-wikipedia", data_dir="20250620")

📄 Dataset Details

• Language: Bangla (Bengali)
• Source: Official Wikipedia Bangla dump
• License: MIT
• Split: train only
• Total Examples: 171,674
• Total Size: ~995 MB (unzipped)
• Wikipedia Version: 20 June 2025

Each sample in the dataset contains:

• id: Unique article ID
• url: Source Wikipedia URL
• title: Article title
• content: Cleaned article body text

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📦 Configs

configs:
- config_name: '20250620'
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: 20250620/train-*

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💡 Use Cases

This dataset is well-suited for:

• Pretraining/fine-tuning language models for Bangla
• Information retrieval or summarization tasks
• Next-word or masked-word prediction models
• Bangla text classification, QA, or conversational agents

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🤝 Contribution

This is a philanthropic open-source contribution to support the growth of the Bangla NLP community. Contributions and feedback are warmly welcome!