WIEM Encyklopedia

WIEM Encyklopedia (full name in Polish: Wielka Interaktywna Encyklopedia Multimedialna - "Great Interactive Multimedia Encyclopedia"; in Polish, wiem also means 'I know') is a Polish Internet encyclopedia.

The encyclopedia was based on the first printed edition was released in mid-1990s (with Volume I of Popularna Encyklopedia Powszechna - Popular General Encyclopedia - released in 1994;^[1] 20 volumes and a supplement were released in total^[2]) with the second in 1998 (under the name Multimedialna Encyklopedia Powszechna - Multimedia Popular Encyclopedia).^[3] It contained about 66,000 entries and various multimedia add-ons.^[4]

The 1998 edition was also released online (www.encyklopedia.pl) under the name Wielka Interaktywna Encyklopedia Multimedialna^[4] and in 2000 was acquired by the Polish web portal Onet.pl. Around that time it was the largest Polish language online encyclopedia.^[5][6] From 2004 to 2 March 2006 it was not free, however before and after it was free to access.^[2] As of the 9th online edition in 2006, it contains 125,000 entries. The number of articles has been reported as similar in 2013.^[7]

It received several awards in the late 1990s.^[8]