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QualC Wikipedia English (Cleaned)
A cleaned English Wikipedia corpus prepared for large language model (LLM) pretraining.
This dataset is part of the QualC pretraining corpus collection and is intended to provide high-quality encyclopedic knowledge covering a wide range of domains including science, mathematics, history, geography, technology, engineering, medicine, politics, literature, and many more.
Source
- Wikimedia Wikipedia
- Dataset:
wikimedia/wikipedia- Configuration:
20231101.en
Cleaning Pipeline
The following preprocessing steps were applied:
- HTML entity decoding
- Unicode normalization (NFKC)
- Invalid Unicode replacement removal
- HTML tag removal
- Control character removal
- Whitespace normalization
- Duplicate document removal
- Short document filtering
URLs were intentionally preserved.
Validation Report
Before Cleaning
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| Documents | 1,000,000 |
| Empty Documents | 0 |
| Encoding Errors | 17 |
| HTML Tags | 5,314 |
| URLs | 30,115 |
After Cleaning
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| Documents | 999,734 |
| Empty Documents | 0 |
| Encoding Errors | 0 |
| HTML Tags | 0 |
| URLs | 29,803 |
Dataset Structure
Each example contains:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| id | Wikipedia article ID |
| url | Original Wikipedia URL |
| title | Article title |
| text | Cleaned article text |
Intended Use
This dataset is designed for:
- Foundation Model Pretraining
- Language Modeling
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- NLP Research
- Educational AI
- Knowledge Representation
- Continual Pretraining
Limitations
- Based on the English Wikipedia snapshot (
20231101.en). - Contains encyclopedic content only.
- May include factual inaccuracies inherited from Wikipedia.
- URLs are preserved intentionally.
License
This dataset is derived from Wikimedia Wikipedia.
Original content is licensed under:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Users must comply with the original Wikimedia licensing terms.
Attribution
Please credit Wikimedia Foundation when using this dataset.
Citation
@dataset{qualc_wikipedia_en,
title={QualC Wikipedia English (Cleaned)},
author={Nandhakumar M S},
year={2026},
publisher={Hugging Face}
}
Maintainer
Nandhakumar M S
Hugging Face:
https://huggingface.co/nandhakumarms
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to:
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Hugging Face
- The open-source AI community
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