diff --git a/docs/source/data_functional.rst b/docs/source/data_functional.rst
index 347f3b433..553bb004d 100644
--- a/docs/source/data_functional.rst
+++ b/docs/source/data_functional.rst
@@ -41,3 +41,9 @@ torchtext.data.functional
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autofunction:: numericalize_tokens_from_iterator
+
+
+:hidden:`filter_wikipedia_xml`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autofunction:: filter_wikipedia_xml
diff --git a/docs/source/datasets.rst b/docs/source/datasets.rst
index adead6c4a..4f45d217a 100644
--- a/docs/source/datasets.rst
+++ b/docs/source/datasets.rst
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ The following datasets are available:
 Text Classification
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-TextClassificationDataset
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
 AG_NEWS
 ~~~~~~~
 
@@ -126,6 +123,7 @@ CoNLL2000Chunking
 
 .. autofunction:: CoNLL2000Chunking
 
+
 Question Answer
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
@@ -139,3 +137,13 @@ SQuAD 2.0
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. autofunction:: SQuAD2
+
+
+Unsupervised Learning
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+EnWik9
+~~~~~~
+
+.. autofunction:: EnWik9
+
diff --git a/torchtext/data/functional.py b/torchtext/data/functional.py
index 995025e92..48d4d8562 100644
--- a/torchtext/data/functional.py
+++ b/torchtext/data/functional.py
@@ -180,3 +180,72 @@ def numericalize_tokens_from_iterator(vocab, iterator, removed_tokens=None):
         else:
             yield iter(map(lambda x: vocab[x],
                        filter(lambda x: x not in removed_tokens, tokens)))
+
+
+_patterns = [(r'<.*>', ''),
+             (r'&amp;', '&'),
+             (r'&lt;', '<'),
+             (r'&gt;', '>'),
+             (r'<ref[^<]*<\/ref>', ''),
+             (r'<[^>]*>', ''),
+             (r'\[http:[^] ]*', '['),
+             (r'\|thumb', ''),
+             (r'\|left', ''),
+             (r'\|right', ''),
+             (r'\|\d+px', ''),
+             (r'\[\[image:[^\[\]]*\|', ''),
+             (r'\[\[category:([^|\]]*)[^]]*\]\]', '[[$1]]'),
+             (r'\[\[[a-z\-]*:[^\]]*\]\]', ''),
+             (r'\[\[[^\|\]]*\|', '[['),
+             (r'\{\{[^\}]*\}\}', ''),
+             (r'\{[^\}]*\}', ''),
+             (r'\[', ''),
+             (r'\]', ''),
+             (r'&[^;]*;', ' '),
+             (r'A', 'a'), (r'B', 'b'), (r'C', 'c'),
+             (r'D', 'd'), (r'E', 'e'), (r'F', 'f'),
+             (r'G', 'g'), (r'H', 'h'), (r'I', 'i'),
+             (r'J', 'j'), (r'K', 'k'), (r'L', 'l'),
+             (r'M', 'm'), (r'N', 'n'), (r'O', 'o'),
+             (r'P', 'p'), (r'Q', 'q'), (r'R', 'r'),
+             (r'S', 's'), (r'T', 't'), (r'U', 'u'),
+             (r'V', 'v'), (r'W', 'w'), (r'X', 'x'),
+             (r'Y', 'y'), (r'Z', 'z'),
+             (r'0', ' zero '), (r'1', ' one '), (r'2', ' two '),
+             (r'3', ' three '), (r'4', ' four '), (r'5', ' five '),
+             (r'6', ' six '), (r'7', ' seven '), (r'8', ' eight '),
+             (r'9', ' nine '),
+             (r'[^a-z\n]+', ' '),
+             (r'\n ', ''),
+             (r'\s+', ' '),
+             (r'\n\s*\n', r'\n')
+             ]
+
+
+def filter_wikipedia_xml(text_iterator):
+    r"""Filter wikipedia xml lines according to https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/blob/master/wikifil.pl
+
+    args:
+        text_iterator: An iterator type object that yields strings. Examples include string list, text io, generators etc.
+
+    Examples:
+        >>> from torchtext.data.functional import filter_wikipedia_xml
+        >>> from torchtext.datasets import EnWik9
+        >>> data_iter = EnWik9(split='train')
+        >>> filter_data_iter = filter_wikipedia_xml(data_iter)
+        >>> file_name = '.data/EnWik9/enwik9'
+        >>> filter_data_iter = filter_wikipedia_xml(open(file_name,'r'))
+    """
+
+    try:
+        iter(text_iterator)
+    except:
+        raise TypeError("Input {} must support iterator semantics".format(text_iterator))
+
+    norm_transform = custom_replace(_patterns)
+    for line in text_iterator:
+        if '#redirect' in line or '#REDIRECT' in line:
+            continue
+        line = list(norm_transform([line]))[0].strip()
+        if line:
+            yield line