Editing Encyclopedia:Size comparisons (section)

==Comparison of encyclopedias==
{{Further|Wikipedia:Statistics|Wikipedia:Size in volumes}}
Numbers regarding total characters are based on an estimated average word length of five, plus a space, or six characters per word.

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|+ Encyclopedias by size
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! Encyclopedia
! Edition
! data-sort-type="number" | Articles<br />(thousands)
! data-sort-type="number" | Words<br />(millions)
! data-sort-type="number" | Est. characters<br />(millions)
! data-sort-type="number" | Average words<br />per article
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| style="text-align: left" |''[[Wikipedia]]''
| style="text-align: left" | English
| style="text-align: right"| {{formatnum:{{#expr:{{Rounddown|{{NUMBEROF|articles|en}}|-4}}/1000}}}}+
| style="text-align: right"| 4,300+
| style="text-align: right"| 26,000+
| style="text-align: right"| 654
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Baike.com]]'' (formerly Hudong) (Chinese Wiki)
| style="text-align: left" | Nov 2009
| style="text-align: right"| 3,920+
| style="text-align: right"| 4,300+
| style="text-align: right"| —
| style="text-align: right"| 1,097
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Complete Library of the Four Treasuries]]'' ({{lang|zh-Hant|四庫全書}})<sup>*</sup>
| style="text-align: left" | 1782<sup>†</sup>
| style="text-align: right"| —
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center"| 800
| style="text-align: right| —
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| style="text-align: left" |''[[Yongle Encyclopedia]]'' ({{lang|zh-Hant|永樂大典}}) <sup>*</sup>
| style="text-align: left" | 1403<sup>†</sup>
| style="text-align: right"| —
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center" | 370<ref>[http://www.itianjin.com/index.php/action/viewspace/itemid/4449 Yongle Encyclopedia]</ref> / 770<ref>[http://m0603.u-86.com/BBS/read-3889.htm Yongle Encyclopedia]</ref>
| style="text-align: right"| —
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana]]''
| style="text-align: left" | 1933
| style="text-align: right"| 1,000+<sup>‡</sup>
| style="text-align: right"| 200
| style="text-align: right"| 1,000
| style="text-align: right"| —
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China]]'' ({{lang|zh-Hant|古今圖書集成}})
| style="text-align: left" | 1725<sup>†</sup>
| style="text-align: right"| —
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center" | 100
| style="text-align: right"| —
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Encyclopedia of China]]'' ({{lang|zh-Hans|中国大百科全书}})
| style="text-align: left" | 1993
| style="text-align: right"| 80<sup></sup>
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center" | 126.4
| style="text-align: right"| 1,580
|-
| style="text-align: left" | [[Brockhaus Enzyklopädie|''Die Brockhaus Enzyklopädie'']] 
| style="text-align: left" | 2006
| style="text-align: right"| 300+
| style="text-align: right"| 33
| style="text-align: right"| ?
| style="text-align: right"| —
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Enciclopedia italiana]]''
| style="text-align: left" | 1939
| style="text-align: right"| 60<sup>§</sup>
| style="text-align: right"| 50
| style="text-align: right"| 247
| style="text-align: right"| 833
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Nationalencyklopedin]]''
| style="text-align: center"| —
| style="text-align: right" | 183<sup>**</sup>
| style="text-align: right" | —
| style="text-align: right" | —
| style="text-align: right" | —
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''
| style="text-align: left" | 2013
| style="text-align: right"| 40<ref>[http://store.britannica.com/products/043009100 Encyclopedia Britannica Store]</ref>
| style="text-align: right"| 44
| style="text-align: right"| —
| style="text-align: right"| 650
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''
| style="text-align: left" | Online
| style="text-align: right"| 120
| style="text-align: right"| 55
| style="text-align: right"| 300
| style="text-align: right"| 370
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]''
| style="text-align: left" | 1978
| style="text-align: right"| 100
| style="text-align: right"| 21<sup>††</sup>
| style="text-align: right"| 200
| style="text-align: right"| 570
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Encyclopédie]]''
| style="text-align: left" | 1751–1780
| style="text-align: right"| 72
| style="text-align: right"| 20
| style="text-align: right"| —
| style="text-align: right"| 278
|-
| style="text-align: left" | [[Encarta|Microsoft Encarta]]
| style="text-align: left" | Encarta Deluxe 2002
| style="text-align: right" | 70<sup>‡‡</sup>
| style="text-align: right" | 40
| style="text-align: right" | 200
| style="text-align: right" | 600
|-
| style="text-align: left" | [[Encarta|Microsoft Encarta]]
| style="text-align: left" | Encarta Deluxe 2005<sup>**</sup>
| style="text-align: right"| 63
| style="text-align: right"| 40
| style="text-align: right"| 200
| style="text-align: right"| 200
|-
| style="text-align: left" | [[Encarta|Microsoft Encarta]]
| style="text-align: left" | 2002 ''Encarta Encyclopedia''
| style="text-align: right"| 40
| style="text-align: right"| 26
| style="text-align: right"| 200
| style="text-align: right"| 200
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Encyclopedia Americana]]''
| style="text-align: left" | 2006
| style="text-align: right"| 45<ref>[http://go.grolier.com/go-ol/static/features/eafeatrs.htm Grolier]</ref>
| style="text-align: right"| 25
| style="text-align: right"| —
| style="text-align: right"| 556
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online]]''
| style="text-align: center"| —
| style="text-align: right"| 39<ref>[http://go.grolier.com/go-ol/static/features/gmefeatrs.htm Grolier online]</ref>
| style="text-align: right"| 11
| style="text-align: right"| 70
| style="text-align: right"| 280
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Columbia Encyclopedia]]''
| style="text-align: left" | Sixth ed. 2000
| style="text-align: right"| 51
| style="text-align: right"| 6.5
| style="text-align: right"| 40
| style="text-align: right"| 130
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Meyers Konversations-Lexikon]]''
| style="text-align: left" | Fourth ed. 1888–92
| style="text-align: right"| 97
| style="text-align: right"| 15.5
| style="text-align: right"| 110
| style="text-align: right"| —
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Encyclopædia Universalis]]''
| style="text-align: left" | 13th ed. 2008
| style="text-align: right"| 41.5<sup>⁑</sup>
| style="text-align: right"| 60
| style="text-align: right"| 350
| style="text-align: right"| 1,450
|-
| style="text-align: left" |''[[Otto's encyclopedia|Ottův slovník naučný]]''
| style="text-align: left" | 1888–1908
| style="text-align: right"| 150
| style="text-align: right"| ?
| style="text-align: right"| 130
| style="text-align: right"| ?
|-
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<nowiki>*</nowiki>Classical Chinese is a very compact language. The result is very short articles for the same content.

<sup>†</sup>It is said that the Yongle Encyclopedia is larger than the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, but it is uncertain how they were compared.

<sup>‡</sup>[[Kenneth Kister|Kenneth F. Kister]], ''Kister's best encyclopedias: a comparative guide to general and specialized encyclopedias,'' (1994) p. 450. [Article count is for the 82-volume edition, rather than the 119-volume one.]

<sup>§</sup>Alfieri, G. Treccani Degli. "Enciclopedia italiana" ''Diccionario Literario'' (2001 HORA, S.A.)

<sup>**</sup>Number of encyclopedic articles. The ''Nationalencyklopedin'' totals 356,000 entries.

<sup>††</sup>Kister, op. cit., p. 365.

<nowiki>**</nowiki>Includes 10,000 historical archives.

<sup>‡‡</sup>Advertised as containing "over 63,000 articles...with 36,000-plus map locations, and over 29,000 editor-approved Web site links." The 2006 Premium CD-ROM had 68,000 articles.<ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/products/encarta/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=002 Encarta]</ref>

<sup>⁑</sup>Advertised as containing 41,500 articles written by 6,803 authors, 60 million of words, 350 million of characters, 360,000 links, 122,000 definitions in the included dictionary, 130,000 bibliographical references.<ref> [http://assistance.universalis.fr/IMG/pdf/DDP_Universalis_2008_v13.pdf 2008 Press release]</ref>