andersoncliffb/women-in-religion-stubs

Wikipedia Women in Religion - Dataset Card

Dataset Description

The "Wikipedia Women in Religion" dataset is a comprehensive collection of Wikipedia articles focused on women in religious and spiritual contexts across various traditions. The dataset includes structured metadata, user-generated prompts for creating these articles, and the raw Wikipedia markup content.

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains 779 entries related to women in religious roles, sacred feminine figures, religious organizations focused on women, and female religious scholars. Each entry includes metadata about the article's importance rating, quality assessment, and dates of evaluation, along with a simulated user prompt that could be used to generate stub articles with an LLM, and the actual Wikipedia markup content.

The dataset serves as a valuable resource for research in natural language processing, particularly for tasks involving Wikipedia content generation, religious studies text analysis, and evaluation of LLM capabilities in specialist knowledge domains.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Each instance in the dataset represents a Wikipedia article and contains:

{
  "Prompt": "Could you provide a neutral, factual summary about Stassi D. Cramm in Wikipedia style?",
  "ID": 1207,
  "Title": "Stassi D. Cramm",
  "Importance": "???",
  "Importance_Date": "2024-12-22",
  "Quality": "Stub",
  "Quality_Date": "2025-01-08",
  "Wikipedia_URL": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stassi_D._Cramm&oldid=1234567890",
  "Wiki_Content": "{{Short description|Prophet-President designate of Community of Christ}}\n'''Stassi D. Cramm''' is the [[Prophet-President]] designate of [[Community of Christ]]..."
}

Data Fields

• Prompt: A simulated user query requesting an LLM to generate a Wikipedia stub article
• ID: Numerical identifier for the entry
• Title: Article title on Wikipedia
• Importance: Assessed importance rating (Top, Mid, Low, or ???)
• Importance_Date: Date when the importance rating was assigned
• Quality: Quality rating (primarily "Stub")
• Quality_Date: Date when the quality rating was assigned
• Wikipedia_URL: Link to the Wikipedia article
• Wiki_Content: Raw Wikipedia markup content of the article

Data Splits

The dataset does not contain predefined splits. Users can create custom splits based on importance ratings, article topics, or other attributes for specific research purposes.

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The source data was collected from Wikipedia's WP 1.0 Web Interface, which provides assessment data for articles. The dataset specifically focuses on articles related to women in religion and spirituality. Article content was extracted using Wikipedia's API to retrieve the raw wikitext markup.

Who are the source data authors?

The source data authors are Wikipedia contributors who created and edited the articles, as well as Wikipedia assessment participants who evaluated the articles' importance and quality.

Annotations

Annotation process

The dataset includes simulated user prompts added to demonstrate how one might request an LLM to generate these articles. These prompts were algorithmically generated with variation patterns to reflect real-world usage.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

This dataset focuses specifically on women in religious contexts, which helps address potential gender imbalances in religious studies and documentation. It provides a resource for research into how women's contributions to religious traditions are documented and represented in encyclopedic resources.

Discussion of Biases

The dataset inherits biases present in Wikipedia, including:

• Western and English-language focus
• Potential underrepresentation of women from certain religious traditions
• Varying depth of coverage based on article age and contributor interest

Researchers should consider these biases when using the dataset for model training or analysis.

Other Known Limitations

• All articles are rated as "Stub" quality, indicating they are in early development stages
• The dataset contains 779 entries, which is a subset of the broader corpus of articles related to the topic
• Article content may have changed on Wikipedia since the dataset was created

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

This dataset was curated by gathering and structuring data from Wikipedia's assessment projects and article content.

Licensing Information

The dataset follows Wikipedia's licensing, with content available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC BY-SA). Users must provide attribution and share modifications under the same license.

Citation Information

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as:

@dataset{wikipedia_women_in_religion,
  author = {Dataset Contributors},
  title = {Wikipedia Women in Religion Dataset},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/username/wikipedia-women-in-religion}
}

Contributions

This dataset is intended as a resource for research and education. Contributions to expand, improve, or update the dataset are welcome. Please follow the contribution guidelines in the repository.