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| * [[Wikipedia Extractor]] – a python script that tries to remove all formatting | * [[Wikipedia Extractor]] – a python script that tries to remove all formatting | ||
| * [https://gist.github.com/unhammer/3372222878580d1e4c6f mwdump-to-pandoc] – shell wrapper around [http://pandoc.org/ pandoc] (see the usage.sh below the script for how to use) | * [https://gist.github.com/unhammer/3372222878580d1e4c6f mwdump-to-pandoc] – shell wrapper around [http://pandoc.org/ pandoc] (see the usage.sh below the script for how to use) | ||
| * [[Calculating_coverage#More_involved_scripts]] – an ugly shell script that does the job | |||
| * [http://wp2txt.rubyforge.org/ wp2txt] – some ruby thing (does this work?) | * [http://wp2txt.rubyforge.org/ wp2txt] – some ruby thing (does this work?) | ||
Revision as of 13:27, 30 January 2016
Wikipedia dumps are useful for quickly getting a corpus. They are also the best corpora for making your language pair are useful for Wikipedia's Content Translation tool :-)
You download them from
There are several tools for turning dumps into useful plaintext, e.g.
- Wikipedia Extractor – a python script that tries to remove all formatting
- mwdump-to-pandoc – shell wrapper around pandoc (see the usage.sh below the script for how to use)
- Calculating_coverage#More_involved_scripts – an ugly shell script that does the job
- wp2txt – some ruby thing (does this work?)

