Wikipedia dumps

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

• http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html

There are several tools for turning dumps into useful plaintext, e.g.

• Wikipedia Extractor – a python script that tries to remove all formatting
• wikiextractor – another python script that removes all formatting (with different options), putting XML marks just to know when begins and ends everty single article
• 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?)