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---
pretty_name: ScandiWiki
language:
- da
- sv
- no
- nb
- nn
- is
- fo
license:
- cc-by-sa-4.0
multilinguality:
- multilingual
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
source_datasets:
- wikipedia
task_categories:
- fill-mask
- text-generation
- feature-extraction
task_ids:
- language-modeling
---
# Dataset Card for ScandiWiki
## Dataset Description
- **Point of Contact:** [Dan Saattrup Nielsen](mailto:dan.nielsen@alexandra.dk)
- **Total amount of disk used:** 4485.90 MB
### Dataset Summary
ScandiWiki is a parsed and deduplicated Wikipedia dump in Danish, Norwegian Bokmål,
Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese.
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
This dataset is intended for general language modelling.
### Languages
The dataset is available in Danish (`da`), Swedish (`sv`), Norwegian Bokmål (`nb`),
Norwegian Nynorsk (`nn`), Icelandic (`is`) and Faroese (`fo`).
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
- **Total amount of disk used:** 4485.90 MB
An example from the `train` split of the `fo` subset looks as follows.
```
{
'id': '3380',
'url': 'https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enk%C3%B6pings%20kommuna',
'title': 'Enköpings kommuna',
'text': 'Enköpings kommuna (svenskt: Enköpings kommun), er ein kommuna í Uppsala län í Svøríki. Enköpings kommuna hevur umleið 40.656 íbúgvar (2013).\n\nKeldur \n\nKommunur í Svøríki'
}
```
### Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
- `id`: a `string` feature.
- `url`: a `string` feature.
- `title`: a `string` feature.
- `text`: a `string` feature.
### Data Subsets
| name | samples |
|----------|----------:|
| sv | 2,469,978 |
| nb | 596,593 |
| da | 287,216 |
| nn | 162,776 |
| is | 55,418 |
| fo | 12,582 |
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
It takes quite a long time to parse the Wikipedia dump as well as to deduplicate it, so
this dataset is primarily for convenience.
### Source Data
The original data is from the [wikipedia
dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikipedia).
## Additional Information
### Dataset Curators
[Dan Saattrup Nielsen](https://saattrupdan.github.io/) from the [The Alexandra
Institute](https://alexandra.dk/) curated this dataset.
### Licensing Information
The dataset is licensed under the [CC BY-SA 4.0
license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), in accordance with the same
license of the [wikipedia dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikipedia).