RedQueenProtocol/all-articles-from-sinhala-wikipedia-2025-parquet

Sinhala Wikipedia Articles Dataset

Contains a collection of Wikipedia articles in the Sinhala language, scraped and cleaned for natural language processing (NLP) tasks under the `RedQueenProtocol' project. The dataset is split into 7 Parquet files, each representing a part of the scraped content.

Data Overview

• Language: Sinhala
• Source: Wikipedia
• Format: Parquet (columns: title and content, where title is the article title and content is the cleaned text)
• Files:
  • sinhala_articles_part1.parquet
  • sinhala_articles_part2.parquet
  • sinhala_articles_part3.parquet
  • sinhala_articles_part4.parquet
  • sinhala_articles_part5.parquet
  • sinhala_articles_part6.parquet
  • sinhala_articles_part7.parquet
• Total Parts: 7
• Creation Date: July 2025

Data Cleaning

The text has been processed to:

• Remove section headers (e.g., == ... ==)
• Eliminate URLs, references, and web artifacts
• Replace multiple newlines and tabs with single spaces
• Remove backslashes, escaped quotes, and Unicode control characters (e.g., U+200E)
• Strip leading/trailing whitespace
• Flag incomplete sentences (ending with "...")

Loading the Dataset

Using the datasets library:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("your-username/sinhala-wikipedia-articles")