Logs of all discussions on the Ubuntu-hosted Internet Relay Chat (IRC) since 2004 have been archived and released into the Public Domain.
We downloaded all chats from all channels up until March of 2025.
We consider all messages for given channel on a given day as a single document.
We removed system messages as well as those from known bots.
Dataset Statistics
Documents
UTF-8 GB
329,115
6.3
License Issues… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/common-pile/ubuntu_irc.
