English Wikipedia People Dataset (Wikimedia Foundation Structured Wikipedia on Kaggle)
- Type
- dataset
- Venue
- Kaggle / Wikimedia Foundation
- Year
- 2026
- Source
- kaggle
- Access
- free
- Language
- English (also French available in the broader release)
- Added
- 2026-07-17T20:18:03.636905+00:00
- Verified
- 2026-07-17T20:18:03.636905+00:00
Summary
A Kaggle-hosted dataset from the Wikimedia Foundation releasing structured Wikipedia article content in a developer-friendly JSON format optimized for machine learning. Released as part of a Wikimedia-Kaggle partnership (April 2025) to dissuade AI bots from scraping Wikipedia by offering clean, pre-parsed data including abstracts, short descriptions, infobox key-value data, image links, and segmented article sections. This 'people' dataset focuses on biographical/people articles from English Wikipedia.
Keywords
wikipedia structured-data reference nlp kaggle wikimedia biographies machine-learning
Topics
Public Domain Books / Reference / NLP
Research notes
- The Kaggle page crashed during automated fetch (reCAPTCHA/JS). Info synthesized from Wikimedia Enterprise blog and press coverage of the Wikimedia-Kaggle partnership. The 'people' naming suggests a biographical-articles subset of the broader structured Wikipedia Kaggle release.