Add URL field to Wikimedia dataset instances: wikipedia,...
State: closed
Labels: description: Requesting to add a new dataset
name: dataset request

As reported by @geohci, in order to host pre-processed data in the Hub, we should add the full URL to data instances (new field "url"), so that we conform to proper attribution from license requirement. See, e.g.: https://fair-trec.github.io/docs/Fair_Ranking_2021_Participant_Instructions.pdf#subsection.3.2

This should be done for all pre-processed datasets under "wikimedia" org in the Hub: https://huggingface.co/wikimedia


Comments:
@geohci, I think the field "url" does not appear in the Wikimedia dumps. Therefore I guess we should generate it, using the "title" field and making some transformation of it (replacing spaces with underscores) and prepending the domain (created using the language)?

Indeed:

> To re-distribute text on Wikipedia in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a [hyperlink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink) (where possible) or [URL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL) to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website, or c) a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions.) This applies to text developed by the Wikipedia community. Text from external sources may attach additional attribution requirements to the work, which should be indicated on an article's face or on its talk page. For example, a page may have a banner or other notation indicating that some or all of its content was originally published somewhere else. Where such notations are visible in the page itself, they should generally be preserved by re-users.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights

I guess it's fine to add the URL field - it can be constructed easily from the title page IIRC.

yep, sorry forgot that that wasn't already in the dumps. specifically `f"https://{language}.wikipedia.org/wiki/{title.replace(' ', '_')}` should do it

Thanks @geohci.

I had already been looking for information about the conversion from title to URL and I found that apart from replacing blanks with underscores, some other special character must also be percent-encoded (e.g. `"` to `%22`): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:URL

Therefore, I have finally used `urllib.parse.quote` function. This additionally percent-encodes non-ASCII characters, but Wikimedia docs say these are equivalent:
> For the other characters either the code or the character can be used in internal and external links, they are equivalent. The system does a conversion when needed.
> [[%C3%80_propos_de_M%C3%A9ta]]
> is rendered as [À_propos_de_Méta](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_propos_de_M%C3%A9ta), almost like [À propos de Méta](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_propos_de_M%C3%A9ta), which leads to this page on Meta with in the address bar the URL
> [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_propos_de_M%C3%A9ta](https://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_propos_de_M%C3%A9ta)
> while [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/À_propos_de_Méta](https://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_propos_de_M%C3%A9ta) leads to the same. 

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