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---
license: cc-by-sa-3.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- fr
tags:
- wikipedia
- wiki
- fr.wikipedia.org
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
---
# French Wikipedia Dataset
## Overview
This dataset is a curated collection of approximately 1.1 million French Wikipedia articles, scraped directly from the [official French Wikipedia site](https://fr.wikipedia.org/) on September 24, 2023. It aims to address issues with existing Wikipedia datasets, such as poorly parsed text missing essential information like dates and locations.
## Format
- **Type**: Text
- **File Extension**: `.txt`
## Structure
The dataset is divided into the following splits:
- `train.txt`: 3.48 GB - 1,810,000 rows - 90%
- `test.txt` : 194 MB - 100,500 rows - 5%
- `valid.txt`: 194 MB - 100,500 rows - 5%
Each article in the dataset exceeds 1200 characters in length.
## Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
The following elements have been excluded from the dataset:
- H1 - H4 Headings
- Lists
- Tables
- Sources and References
- Info box
- Banners
- LaTeX code
The text has been standardized for consistent formatting and line length. Additionally, the dataset has been filtered using the `langid` library to include only text in French. Some quotations or short terms in other languages, including non-Latin languages, may still be present.
## Exploring the Dataset
You can use the `explore_dataset.py` script to explore the dataset by randomly displaying a certain number of lines from it. The script creates and saves an index based on the line breaks, enabling faster data retrieval and display.
## Additional Information
This dataset is a subset of a larger 10GB French dataset, which also contains several thousand books and theses in French, as well as several hundred thousand Francophone news articles. |