metadata

pretty_name: ScandiWiki
language:
  - da
  - sv
  - 'no'
  - nb
  - nn
  - is
  - fo
license:
  - cc-by-sa-4.0
multilinguality:
  - multilingual
size_categories:
  - 1M<n<10M
source_datasets:
  - wikipedia
task_categories:
  - fill-mask
  - text-generation
  - feature-extraction
task_ids:
  - language-modeling

Dataset Card for ScandiWiki

Dataset Description

Point of Contact: Dan Saattrup Nielsen
Size of downloaded dataset files: 4485.90 MB
Size of the generated dataset: 4485.90 MB
Total amount of disk used: 8971.80 MB

Dataset Summary

ScandiWiki is a parsed and deduplicated Wikipedia dump in Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

This dataset is intended for general language modelling.

Languages

The dataset is available in Danish (da), Swedish (sv), Norwegian Bokmål (nb), Norwegian Nynorsk (nn), Icelandic (is) and Faroese (fo).

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Size of downloaded dataset files: 4485.90 MB
Size of the generated dataset: 4485.90 MB
Total amount of disk used: 8971.80 MB

An example from the train split of the fo subset looks as follows.

{
    'id': '3380',
    'url': 'https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enk%C3%B6pings%20kommuna',
    'title': 'Enköpings kommuna',
    'text': 'Enköpings kommuna (svenskt: Enköpings kommun), er ein kommuna í Uppsala län í Svøríki. Enköpings kommuna hevur umleið 40.656 íbúgvar (2013).\n\nKeldur \n\nKommunur í Svøríki'
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

id: a string feature.
url: a string feature.
title: a string feature.
text: a string feature.

Data Subsets

name	samples
da	287,216
sv	2,469,978
nb	596,593
nn	162,776
is	55,418
fo	12,582

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

It takes quite a long time to parse the Wikipedia dump as well as to deduplicate it, so this dataset is primarily for convenience.

Source Data

The original data is from the wikipedia dataset.

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Dan Saattrup Nielsen from the The Alexandra Institute curated this dataset.

Licensing Information

The dataset is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, in accordance with the same license of the wikipedia dataset.