language string | generated_utc string | expected_shards int64 | published_shards int64 | published_archives int64 | present_shards list | missing_shards list | incomplete_shards list | complete bool | roots list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
lgwiki | 2026-10-15T21:05:51.455985+00:00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | [
1
] | [] | [] | true | [
{
"root_shard": 1,
"complete": true,
"files": [
"lgwiki_01_of_01.txt.gz"
],
"successful_leaves": [
{
"file": "lgwiki_01_of_01.txt.gz",
"segment": "root",
"sources": [
{
"file": "lgwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2",
"min_page... |
Plaintext Wikipedia (Luganda)
Compressed plaintext articles from Luganda Wikipedia. One current main-namespace revision per non-redirect article; titles and cleaned text are stored as UTF-8 in independent gzip shards.
Produced and maintained by cheeseonamonkey/PlainTextWikipedia.
Build status: COMPLETE — 1/1 root shards recovered (1 leaf archives). All planned page ranges recovered.
Format
Each .txt.gz shard has three lines per article (title, single-line body, blank separator):
Article title
Cleaned article body
Next title
Next article body
Shard files are normally named lgwiki_01_of_NN.txt.gz, etc. If one shard fails, recovery splits it into named halves like lgwiki_01a_of_NN.txt.gz and lgwiki_01b_of_NN.txt.gz; a failing half can split again (01ba, 01bb, etc.). Only successful, non-overlapping leaves are published.
The machine-readable coverage file data/build-manifest.json records which roots and subranges completed. Always check its complete flag before treating a dataset as exhaustive. These are raw text archives, not structured rows with title and body fields in the Hugging Face datasets API.
Example: download and read
import gzip
from huggingface_hub import HfApi, hf_hub_download
repo = "ffatty/plaintext-wikipedia-full-luganda"
files = sorted(
path for path in HfApi().list_repo_files(repo, repo_type="dataset")
if path.startswith("data/") and path.endswith(".txt.gz")
)
path = hf_hub_download(repo, filename=files[0], repo_type="dataset")
with gzip.open(path, "rt", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
title = stream.readline().rstrip("\n")
body = stream.readline().rstrip("\n")
print(title, body[:200])
Sources and attribution
- cheeseonamonkey/PlainTextWikipedia — maintained converter and publisher.
- daveshap/PlainTextWikipedia — original upstream project (unmaintained).
- Wikimedia dumps — article source.
Wikipedia content is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA); the conversion code is MIT licensed. Follow the applicable Wikimedia reuse requirements, including author attribution.
Generated by cheeseonamonkey/PlainTextWikipedia. Source data: Wikimedia dumps.
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