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[edit] related to Yuan Empirial book?

During Mongol occupation of China, Yuan empire developed kind of encyclopedia called Yuan Empirial Book (Mongolian: Yuan Gurnii Sudar) isnt Yongle actually that encyclopedia? And the Yuan Empirial Book has over 100 volumes. 71.191.21.18 (talk) 03:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Please read the article. The Yongle Encyclopedia was started by the Yongle Emperor in 1402 and it consisted of 11095 volumes. While Yuan dynasty came to its end in 1368. Temur (talk) 01:32, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vs. Wikipedia.

Does anyone know the ratio of content in the Yongle Encyclopedia compared to Wikipedia?

Well, http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-davd.htm says >370 million words in 22,937 volumes for the Yongle Encyclopedia; according to Special:Statistics for the English Wikipedia, there are 1,521,342 actual articles & 6,660,666 pages of various kinds in total. The detailed statistics record that as of June 2006, there were 511 million words. So a naive answer would be 370:511, but that's comparing apples and oranges: English to Chinese words, encyclopedia articles to encyclopedia/original texts, different styles of writing, etc. Even the sizes are highly imprecise: 370 million is really just a guess about the Yongle Encyclopedia, and for Wikipedia, it's not listed how the 511 million is obtained - the pages says "(excl. redirects, html/wiki codes and hidden links)", but is that really an accurate count of readable text? So, the answer is that Wikipedia is larger than the Yongle Encyclopedia - maybe. --Gwern (contribs) 21:08 7 December 2006 (GMT)

[edit] When completed?

Any sources for either 1407 or 1408? -- Jeandré, 2007-01-28t13:58z

Yes... 1407: [1], [2]. 1408: [3]. --Gwern (contribs) 18:20 28 January 2007 (GMT)

[edit] Link to image

Changed the link to the image of one page of the encyclopedia as the previous linked page is no longer online.,2007-11-24

[edit] hidden in tomb complex

Do we have an article on "tomb complex of Yongling"? Yongling doesn't link. RJFJR (talk) 19:45, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ate the Encyclopedia

It doesn't sound right, but even if it's true, it's a bit vague, without any citation so I banged a [citation needed] onto it