# govpl

gov.pl — Polish government press releases

## Dataset description
- **Source (upstream):** https://www.gov.pl/
- **Domain:** government
- **Language:** Polish (pl)
- **License:** `CC-BY-SA-4.0`
- **Created (range):** 2005-09-26, 2026-07-19
- **Added:** 2026-07-19; PAP reprints removed 2026-10-06

## Licensing — traceable basis
gov.pl publishes its text under CC BY-SA 4.0 (site footer and https://www.gov.pl/web/gov/prawa-autorskie: "Treści tekstowe publikowane w serwisie … są udostępniane na licencji CC BY-SA 4.0"). The same page excludes works whose copyright belongs to third parties; using those needs the owners' consent. Articles crediting PAP are therefore dropped (legal note).

## Provenance
Ministry/agency press releases fetched directly from gov.pl (editor-content per article, HTML stripped) by src/fetch_govpl.py. Subsites + their non-uniform news-section paths are enumerated by src/discover_govpl.py into the committed manifest src/govpl_subsites.json (gov.pl has no sitemap/API). v0.2.6 removes PAP reprints from the v0.2.5 Parquet with src/clean_govpl.py, which also writes govpl.attribution.jsonl: each row's gov.pl URL, subsite, title and date.

## Attribution
CC BY-SA 4.0 requires credit and a link to the source. `govpl.attribution.jsonl` has one
line per row, in Parquet order: `id`, `url` (the gov.pl article), `subsite` (the publishing
ministry or agency), `title`, `date` (as listed on gov.pl) and `license`. Rows were matched
to the 2026-07-19 crawl on SHA-1 of the stripped text; for 1,189 rows the same text was
fetched from more than one URL, and the first in fetch order is given.

## Statistics
| documents | characters | tokens (tiktoken proxy) |
|---:|---:|---:|
| 88,002 | 217,515,240 | 80,445,758 |

## Per-document license metadata
| license | documents |
|---|---:|
| `CC-BY-SA-4.0` | 88,002 |

Author metadata present for **0** documents. Empty values mean the upstream record did not expose a machine-readable author field.

## Legal scope note
gov.pl's copyright page carves out "utwory, co do których prawa autorskie przysługują osobom trzecim" from its CC BY-SA 4.0 grant. Articles crediting PAP (Polish Press Agency) as their source are such works, so 188 are dropped (rule fetch_govpl.pap_rule, applied by src/clean_govpl.py): a "Źródło:" line naming PAP (163), "Na podst. … PAP" (22), a "(PAP)" sign-off line (2) and one PAP interview transcript (1). PAP photo credits and articles that only quote or mention PAP stay. Other third-party text is not screened: 710 kept articles carry a "Źródło:" line naming some other source; they were not reviewed.

## Filters applied
`build_dynaword.py` (v0.2.2), minimal per Dynaword guidelines:
- drop documents < 200 chars: **0**
- drop non-Polish (diacritic ratio): **24**
- exact cross-source dedup (sha1): **1,926**
- read 90,140 → kept 88,190

`src/clean_govpl.py` (v0.2.6), third-party carve-out:
- drop PAP reprints: **188** (`Źródło:` line 163, `Na podst.` 22, `(PAP)` sign-off 2, interview 1)
- read 88,190 → kept 88,002

Token counts are a fast tiktoken (cl100k) proxy (~1% off Llama-3); the canonical
Llama-3 count is computed at release.