PlainTextWikipedia
Convert Wikipedia database dumps into plain text files (JSON). This can parse literally all of Wikipedia with pretty high fidelity. There's a copy available on Kaggle Datasets
QUICK START
- Download and unzip a Wikipedia dump (see Data Sources below) make sure you get a monolithic XML file
- Open up
wiki_to_text.pyand edit the filename to point at your XML file. Also update the savedir location - Run
wiki_to_text.py- it should take about 2.5 days to run, with some variation based on your CPU and storage speed
Data Sources
There are two primary data sources you'll want to use. See the table below for the root url.
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Simplified English Wikipedia | This is only about 1GB and therefore is a great test set | https://dumps.wikimedia.org/simplewiki/ |
| English Wikipedia | This is all of Wikipedia, so about 80GB unpacked | https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ |
Navigate into the latest dump. You're likley looking for the very first file in the download section. They will look something like this:
enwiki-20210401-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 18.1 GBsimplewiki-20210401-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 203.5 MB
Download and extract these to a storage directory. I usually shorten the folder name and filename.
Legal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content
Wikipedia is published under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (CC-BY-SA).
My script is published under the MIT license but this does not confer the same privileges to the material you convert with it.
