data/global_voices/global_voices.md

# global_voices

Polish-language civic-media and public-interest journalism from [Global Voices](https://pl.globalvoices.org/), produced by its international community of writers and volunteer translators.

## Dataset description

- **Source (upstream):** https://pl.globalvoices.org/
- **Domain:** civic media, news and public-interest journalism
- **Language:** Polish (pl)
- **License:** `CC-BY-3.0`
- **Created (range):** 2008-11-04, 2023-05-24
- **Added:** 2026-07-15

Global Voices describes its Lingua translations as human-made work performed by a volunteer translator community. The dataset primarily represents edited, translated journalism rather than conversational Polish or text necessarily authored originally in Polish.

## Statistics

| documents | characters | tokens (`cl100k_base` proxy) |
|---:|---:|---:|
| 1,926 | 9,358,071 | 3,453,918 |

The Parquet schema matches DynaWord:

`id, text, source, added, created, token_count, license, author`

Published files:

- `global_voices.parquet` — cleaned article text and DynaWord metadata;
- `global_voices.stats.json` — release statistics;
- `global_voices.attribution.jsonl` — title, canonical article URL, contributor attribution, license URL and modification notice for every document;
- `NOTICE.md` — licensing and attribution notice.

## Provenance

Articles were acquired directly from the Polish Global Voices website through its official publication interfaces, rather than from a third-party corpus. Each released ID is linked to the corresponding canonical article URL in `global_voices.attribution.jsonl`.

The source release contained 2,044 records. Four records below the minimum quality and length requirements were excluded, leaving 2,040 documents. A later rights review excluded 114 posts that Global Voices republished from partner outlets (see below), leaving 1,926 documents. The final source contains no exact duplicate documents.

## Cleaning

The release received a reviewed cleaning pass. Redundant source-language passages were removed where the corresponding Polish translation was retained, together with extraction artifacts and obsolete interface text. Intentional quotations and source-language material required for meaning or documentary context were preserved.

The cleaning process did not use machine translation or automatic speech transcription. It should not be interpreted as making every document strictly monolingual.

## Licensing — traceable basis and attribution

CC BY 3.0 was verified from the article-level license link published with each retained Global Voices article. Each released record carries `CC-BY-3.0` metadata. Contributor roles are preserved in the `author` column where available, distinguishing original authors from Polish translators.

Because the fixed DynaWord schema does not contain article titles or URLs, the attribution sidecar maps every released `id` to its title, canonical URL, contributor attribution, license URL and modification notice. It contains one unique URL-bearing record for each of the 1,926 Parquet documents.

### Partner republications (excluded)

Global Voices licenses the content it creates under CC BY 3.0. Some posts instead republish an article that a partner outlet published first, under a content-sharing agreement or with the outlet's permission. That text remains the partner's work, so the release excludes it. `src/clean_global_voices.py` finds the editorial note such posts carry in their opening or closing lines (for example "pierwotnie ukazał się na portalu PRI.org … w ramach umowy o wymianie treści"). It also excludes three posts whose note the rules miss and keeps 25 look-alike notes, each with a stated reason. Every match was checked by hand.

The rule excluded 114 posts from 51 outlets. The largest groups are PRI/The World (21), The Stand News (8), Hong Kong Free Press (7), Agência Pública (6), Metamorphosis/Meta.mk (5) and 350.org (5). Three Freemuse co-commissions are excluded because their note allows republication only by non-commercial media.

The following posts are kept:
- posts that Global Voices contributors cross-posted from their own blogs;
- posts Global Voices wrote for the ISN blog;
- posts that partner organisations wrote directly for Global Voices without a republication note;
- photo-only permission credits.

Recommended attribution:

> Global Voices; the original author(s) and Polish translator(s) listed in the attribution sidecar; canonical article URL; CC BY 3.0. Article text was extracted and cleaned; redundant source-language passages were removed where a Polish translation was retained.

Binary photographs, videos and embedded media are not redistributed. Articles may contain quotations, captions or social-media text whose separate rights remain with their respective authors.

## Limitations and recommended use

- The dataset represents edited online journalism and human translation, not the full distribution of contemporary Polish.
- Translationese and source-specific editorial conventions may be present.
- Some intentional source-language quotations remain inside otherwise Polish articles.
- Coverage ends in May 2023.
- Cross-source and near-duplicate removal against other DynaWord sources remains part of the complete corpus build.

Global Voices is best used as a complementary source of contemporary civic-media and journalistic Polish, rather than as a standalone representation of colloquial or natively authored Polish.