---
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  features:
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
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    num_examples: 1103446
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  dataset_size: 2590923950
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
license: cc-by-sa-3.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- pt
pretty_name: Wikipedia-PT
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
tags:
- portuguese
---
# Wikipedia-PT

## Dataset Summary

The Portuguese portion of the [Wikipedia dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikimedia/wikipedia).

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

The dataset is generally used for Language Modeling.

### Languages

Portuguese

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

An example looks as follows:
```
{
 'text': 'Abril é o quarto mês...'
}
```

### Data Fields

- `text` (`str`): Text content of the article.

### Data Splits

All configurations contain a single `train` split.

## Dataset Creation

### 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"
}
```