Wikicleaner

Wikipedia provides a series of dumps in XML format. While developing this project, I personally used the simple wiki dumps.

Purpose

The intent of this project is to provide some low-level routines that allow us to manipulate the content of XML dumps. One such routine removes all of the annotations like [[File:*]] and {{some metadata}} in order to make our input more digestible for an AI application that uses embeddings.

Example Usage

>>> import wikicleaner as wc
>>> article_raw_text = "[[File:Colorful spring garden.jpg|thumb|180px|right|[[Spring]] flowers in April in the [[Northern Hemisphere]].]] April comes between [[March]] and [[May]]"
>>> wc.clean_article_text(article_raw_text)
' April comes between March and May'