This Sunday at 5pm at #ACL2026 in the multilingual session, Kushal Tatariya and Artur Kulmizev will present our work on auditing the quality of Wikipedia for low-resource NLP, see the paper here: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- MinHash deduplication removes 28.33% of all non-English Wikipedia articles, mostly from editions known to be dominated by bot-generated content.
- Cited bot-content shares reach 99% for Cebuano, 90% for Waray and 68% for Swedish Wikipedia, per an Alshahrani et al. 2023 estimate.
- Language models trained on the filtered Wikipedia largely match or outperform those trained on the raw dumps, with the biggest gains on lower-quality editions.
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