Humans of Wikipedia | Atlas Map
Explore the lives and legacies of over 1.4 million individuals documented in English Wikipedia’s biographical articles, complete with detailed metadata.
This dataset was created by combining two data sources:
1. English wikipedia text from the Wikimedia Foundation's HuggingFace Dataset (https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikimedia/wikipedia)
2. Rich metadata for 2.4 million biographical wikipedia articles, of which 1.4 million were English articles (https://data.sciencespo.fr/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.21410/7E4/RDAG3O)
Citation for second source:
Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique, Etienne Wasmer (2022) A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD, Scientific Data, June 2022.