Wikipedia Exotic is an extensive dataset designed to offer Wikipedia corpus in uncommon European and religious languages. Wikimedia and other reputable sources maintain existing corpuses, housing 300+ languages and their respective corpora. Additionally, datasets such as Wikipedia 40B from Google provide corpora in 40 widely spoken languages.

LAION AI sought to make a distinct and long-lasting contribution to the field by filling a void that would enable researchers to work with exotic European languages. These languages are widely spoken in their native countries but have limited global recognition. The dataset also includes languages from Southeast Asia and religious languages such as Hebrew. Our intention is to inspire researchers to develop domain-specific models and conduct research using these languages, making them more accessible to the broader academic community.

We are publishing this dataset as part of our X project initiative, which aims to collect and publish datasets for exotic languages.

Dataset Information:

Indexed: October 2024

Source Location: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/cirrussearch/

#	Wikipedia Languages
1	Bengali
2	Chinese
3	Danish
4	Dutch
5	English
6	Estonian
7	French
8	Georgian
9	German
10	Hebrew
11	Italian
12	Japanese
13	Korean
14	Polish
15	Portuguese
16	Romanian
17	Russian
18	Spanish
19	Swedish
20	Ukrainian