---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
language:
- bar
pretty_name: Bavarian Wikipedia Dump
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---

# Bavarian Wikipedia Dump

This datasets hosts a recent Bavarian Wikipedia Dump that is used for various experiments within the [Bavarian NLP](https://huggingface.co/bavarian-nlp) organization.

## Dataset Creation

The latest dump was downloaded with:

```bash
wget https://dumps.wikimedia.org/barwiki/20250720/barwiki-20250720-pages-articles.xml.bz2
```

Then a patched version of [WikiExtractor](https://github.com/attardi/wikiextractor) was used (with Python 3.12.3 - newer versions were not working) to extract all articles into JSONL:

```bash
python3 -m wikiextractor.WikiExtractor --json --no-templates -o - barwiki-20250720-pages-articles.xml.bz2 > bar_wikipedia.jsonl
```

The final JSONL file was then uploaded here.

## Stats

The extracted JSONL file contains 43,917 articles.