---
license: mit
language:
- si
tags:
- sinhala
- wikipedia
---
# 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[](https://si.wikipedia.org)
- **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:
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

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