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masakhanews

Xhosa(xho)Texttext-classificationSouthern Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Xhosa (xho)
Modality
Text
Domain
NLP (News, Health)
Size
1K<n<10K n (samples)
Institution
masakhane
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierafl-3.0

Restricted — review the source terms before use.

RedistributionRestricted

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

28 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (21/27)

iso code
xho
Dataset name
masakhanews
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhanews
NLP Task
text-classification
Domain
NLP (News, Health)
Data Format
csv
Size Metric
n (samples)
Size Value
1K<n<10K n (samples)
License
afl-3.0
Open Access
Restricted
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2023
Creator/Author(s)
masakhane
Funder/Partner
Masakhane
Dialect Coverage
Not stated
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
HumanderivedHugging Face card: annotations_creators
Status
Activederivedupdated or published within 3 years
Has Datasheet
YesderivedHugging Face card: README with a description of 300+ characters
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Notes / Flags
Data format: csv

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
AFL-3.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Restricted
Content Hash
fa3b5fff8a91d187bf0c5900a39c4271d08cf7federivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-10-27
Last Updated Date
2025-12-03derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
Not stated
Benchmark Exists?
Not stated
Benchmark Citation
Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (1/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Not stated
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Not stated
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
0

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation80%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhanews
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Content Hash
fa3b5fff8a91d187bf0c5900a39c4271d08cf7fe

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

27 Oct 2026

Source status: Active

27 Oct 2026

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masakhanews

Data format: parquet

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