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+# French Wikipedia Dataset
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+## Overview
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+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.
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+## Format
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+- **Type**: Text
+- **File Extension**: `.txt`
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+## Structure
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+The dataset is divided into the following splits:
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+- `train.txt`: 90%
+- `test.txt` : 5%
+- `valid.txt`: 5%
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+Each article in the dataset exceeds 1200 characters in length.
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+## Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
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+The following elements have been excluded from the dataset:
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+- H1 - H4 Headings
+- Lists
+- Tables
+- Sources and References
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+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.
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+## Additional Information
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+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.
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