Wikipedia historic dumps are deleted but hf/datasets hardcodes dump date
State: open | Author: leezu (NONE)

Wikimedia does not keep all historical dumps. For example, as of today https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kowiki/ only provides

```
20201220/                                          02-Feb-2021 01:36                   -
20210101/                                          21-Feb-2021 01:26                   -
20210120/                                          02-Mar-2021 01:25                   -
20210201/                                          21-Mar-2021 01:26                   -
20210220/                                          02-Apr-2021 01:26                   -
20210301/                                          03-Mar-2021 08:10                   -
20210320/                                          21-Mar-2021 18:13                   -
20210401/                                          03-Apr-2021 10:08                   -
latest/                                            03-Apr-2021 10:08                   -
```

However, the wikipedia dataset provided in the library, only supports the following configs, none of which are applicable anymore when disregarding the cached datasets:

```
ValueError: BuilderConfig 20210401.ko not found. Available: ['20200501.aa', '20200501.ab', '20200501.ace', '20200501.ady', '20200501.af', '20200501.ak', '20200501.als', '20200501.am', '20200501.an', '20200501.ang', '20200501.ar', '20200501.arc', '20200501.arz', '20200501.as', '20200501.ast', '20200501.atj', '20200501.av', '20200501.ay', '20200501.az', '20200501.azb', '20200501.ba', '20200501.bar', '20200501.bat-smg', '20200501.bcl', '20200501.be', '20200501.be-x-old', '20200501.bg', '20200501.bh', '20200501.bi', '20200501.bjn', '20200501.bm', '20200501.bn', '20200501.bo', '20200501.bpy', '20200501.br', '20200501.bs', '20200501.bug', '20200501.bxr', '20200501.ca', '20200501.cbk-zam', '20200501.cdo', '20200501.ce', '20200501.ceb', '20200501.ch', '20200501.cho', '20200501.chr', '20200501.chy', '20200501.ckb', '20200501.co', '20200501.cr', '20200501.crh', '20200501.cs', '20200501.csb', '20200501.cu', '20200501.cv', '20200501.cy', '20200501.da', '20200501.de', '20200501.din', '20200501.diq', '20200501.dsb', '20200501.dty', '20200501.dv', '20200501.dz', '20200501.ee', '20200501.el', '20200501.eml', '20200501.en', '20200501.eo', '20200501.es', '20200501.et', '20200501.eu', '20200501.ext', '20200501.fa', '20200501.ff', '20200501.fi', '20200501.fiu-vro', '20200501.fj', '20200501.fo', '20200501.fr', '20200501.frp', '20200501.frr', '20200501.fur', '20200501.fy', '20200501.ga', '20200501.gag', '20200501.gan', '20200501.gd', '20200501.gl', '20200501.glk', '20200501.gn', '20200501.gom', '20200501.gor', '20200501.got', '20200501.gu', '20200501.gv', '20200501.ha', '20200501.hak', '20200501.haw', '20200501.he', '20200501.hi', '20200501.hif', '20200501.ho', '20200501.hr', '20200501.hsb', '20200501.ht', '20200501.hu', '20200501.hy', '20200501.ia', '20200501.id', '20200501.ie', '20200501.ig', '20200501.ii', '20200501.ik', '20200501.ilo', '20200501.inh', '20200501.io', '20200501.is', '20200501.it', '20200501.iu', '20200501.ja', '20200501.jam', '20200501.jbo', '20200501.jv', '20200501.ka', '20200501.kaa', '20200501.kab', '20200501.kbd', '20200501.kbp', '20200501.kg', '20200501.ki', '20200501.kj', '20200501.kk', '20200501.kl', '20200501.km', '20200501.kn', '20200501.ko', '20200501.koi', '20200501.krc', '20200501.ks', '20200501.ksh', '20200501.ku', '20200501.kv', '20200501.kw', '20200501.ky', '20200501.la', '20200501.lad', '20200501.lb', '20200501.lbe', '20200501.lez', '20200501.lfn', '20200501.lg', '20200501.li', '20200501.lij', '20200501.lmo', '20200501.ln', '20200501.lo', '20200501.lrc', '20200501.lt', '20200501.ltg', '20200501.lv', '20200501.mai', '20200501.map-bms', '20200501.mdf', '20200501.mg', '20200501.mh', '20200501.mhr', '20200501.mi', '20200501.min', '20200501.mk', '20200501.ml', '20200501.mn', '20200501.mr', '20200501.mrj', '20200501.ms', '20200501.mt', '20200501.mus', '20200501.mwl', '20200501.my', '20200501.myv', '20200501.mzn', '20200501.na', '20200501.nah', '20200501.nap', '20200501.nds', '20200501.nds-nl', '20200501.ne', '20200501.new', '20200501.ng', '20200501.nl', '20200501.nn', '20200501.no', '20200501.nov', '20200501.nrm', '20200501.nso', '20200501.nv', '20200501.ny', '20200501.oc', '20200501.olo', '20200501.om', '20200501.or', '20200501.os', '20200501.pa', '20200501.pag', '20200501.pam', '20200501.pap', '20200501.pcd', '20200501.pdc', '20200501.pfl', '20200501.pi', '20200501.pih', '20200501.pl', '20200501.pms', '20200501.pnb', '20200501.pnt', '20200501.ps', '20200501.pt', '20200501.qu', '20200501.rm', '20200501.rmy', '20200501.rn', '20200501.ro', '20200501.roa-rup', '20200501.roa-tara', '20200501.ru', '20200501.rue', '20200501.rw', '20200501.sa', '20200501.sah', '20200501.sat', '20200501.sc', '20200501.scn', '20200501.sco', '20200501.sd', '20200501.se', '20200501.sg', '20200501.sh', '20200501.si', '20200501.simple', '20200501.sk', '20200501.sl', '20200501.sm', '20200501.sn', '20200501.so', '20200501.sq', '20200501.sr', '20200501.srn', '20200501.ss', '20200501.st', '20200501.stq', '20200501.su', '20200501.sv', '20200501.sw', '20200501.szl', '20200501.ta', '20200501.tcy', '20200501.te', '20200501.tet', '20200501.tg', '20200501.th', '20200501.ti', '20200501.tk', '20200501.tl', '20200501.tn', '20200501.to', '20200501.tpi', '20200501.tr', '20200501.ts', '20200501.tt', '20200501.tum', '20200501.tw', '20200501.ty', '20200501.tyv', '20200501.udm', '20200501.ug', '20200501.uk', '20200501.ur', '20200501.uz', '20200501.ve', '20200501.vec', '20200501.vep', '20200501.vi', '20200501.vls', '20200501.vo', '20200501.wa', '20200501.war', '20200501.wo', '20200501.wuu', '20200501.xal', '20200501.xh', '20200501.xmf', '20200501.yi', '20200501.yo', '20200501.za', '20200501.zea', '20200501.zh', '20200501.zh-classical', '20200501.zh-min-nan', '20200501.zh-yue', '20200501.zu']
```

The cached datasets:

```
% aws s3 --no-sign-request --endpoint-url https://storage.googleapis.com ls s3://huggingface-nlp/cache/datasets/wikipedia/
                           PRE 20200501.de/
                           PRE 20200501.en/
                           PRE 20200501.fr/
                           PRE 20200501.frr/
                           PRE 20200501.it/
                           PRE 20200501.simple/
```

Comments: It seems that this can be fixed from user's end by including a `date` argument, like this:

`dataset = datasets.load_dataset('wikipedia', '20200501.en', date='20210420')`

You can get available dates from [here](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/).

This is not a proper fix however as all the files will still have '20200501' in their file names.