README.md

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# Dataset Card for "wiki_snippets"

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://dumps.wikimedia.org](https://dumps.wikimedia.org)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 0.00 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 35001.08 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 35001.08 MB

### Dataset Summary

Wikipedia version split into plain text snippets for dense semantic indexing.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Dataset Structure

We show detailed information for up to 5 configurations of the dataset.

### Data Instances

#### wiki40b_en_100_0

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 0.00 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 12268.10 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 12268.10 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
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#### wikipedia_en_100_0

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 0.00 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 22732.97 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 22732.97 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.
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```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### wiki40b_en_100_0
- `_id`: a `string` feature.
- `datasets_id`: a `int32` feature.
- `wiki_id`: a `string` feature.
- `start_paragraph`: a `int32` feature.
- `start_character`: a `int32` feature.
- `end_paragraph`: a `int32` feature.
- `end_character`: a `int32` feature.
- `article_title`: a `string` feature.
- `section_title`: a `string` feature.
- `passage_text`: a `string` feature.

#### wikipedia_en_100_0
- `_id`: a `string` feature.
- `datasets_id`: a `int32` feature.
- `wiki_id`: a `string` feature.
- `start_paragraph`: a `int32` feature.
- `start_character`: a `int32` feature.
- `end_paragraph`: a `int32` feature.
- `end_character`: a `int32` feature.
- `article_title`: a `string` feature.
- `section_title`: a `string` feature.
- `passage_text`: a `string` feature.

### Data Splits

|       name       | train  |
|------------------|-------:|
|wiki40b_en_100_0  |17553713|
|wikipedia_en_100_0|30820408|

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Citation Information

```
@ONLINE {wikidump,
    author = "Wikimedia Foundation",
    title  = "Wikimedia Downloads",
    url    = "https://dumps.wikimedia.org"
}

```


### Contributions

Thanks to [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf), [@lhoestq](https://github.com/lhoestq), [@mariamabarham](https://github.com/mariamabarham), [@yjernite](https://github.com/yjernite) for adding this dataset.