Plain text of Wikisource

• Dataset Description
  • Size
  • Example use (python)
  • Data fields
  • Notes on data formatting
• License
• Aknowledgements
• Citation

Dataset Description

This dataset is a plain text version of pages from wikisource.org in French language. The text is without HTML tags nor wiki templates. It just includes markdown syntax for headers, lists and tables. See Notes on data formatting for more details.

It was created by LINAGORA and OpenLLM France from the Wikimedia dumps, using code in https://github.com/OpenLLM-France/wikiplaintext.

Size

The amount of data for the latest dump (20231201) is:

	French
# documents	185 700
# paragraphs	585 700
# words	523 310 649
# characters	3 079 850 209
size on disk	1.9G

Example use (python)

Load the full dataset:

import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset("OpenLLM-France/wikisource", streaming=True, split="train")

Load only a small subset:

ds = datasets.load_dataset("OpenLLM-France/wikisource", "sample", split="train")

A version "repeated_headers" of the dataset is available, where headers are repeated before each section (see https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenLLM-France/wikipedia#alternative-markdown-syntax). This dataset can be obtained with:

ds = datasets.load_dataset("OpenLLM-France/wikisource", revision="repeated_headers", split="train")

Data fields

The data fields are the same among all configurations:

• id (int): ID of the page.
• url (str): URL of the page.
• title (str): Title of the page.
• text (str): Text content of the page.

Notes on data formatting

see OpenLLM-France/wikipedia.fr

License

This dataset is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Aknowledgements

This dataset was created by Jérôme Louradour on behalf of LINAGORA and OpenLLM France.

Many thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation for providing the data and useful advices, in particular Isaac Johnson, Albert Villanova and Rémy Gerbet.

Citation

@online{wikisource_fr_dump,
    author = "Jérôme Louradour, OpenLLM-France, LINAGORA Labs",
    title  = "Plain text of Wikisource",
    url    = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenLLM-France/wikisource"
}