{{short description|Polish online encyclopedia}} '''WIEM Encyklopedia''' (full name in {{langx|pl|Wielka Interaktywna Encyklopedia Multimedialna}} - "Great Interactive Multimedia Encyclopedia"; in Polish, ''wiem'' also means 'I know') was a Polish Internet encyclopedia, active from 1998 to c. 2017.
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;<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://katalog.nukat.edu.pl/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1610918 |title=Popularna encyklopedia powszechna. T. 1- |date=1994 |publisher=Fogra |isbn=978-83-85719-07-6 |editor-last=Anczykowa |editor-first=Ada |location=Kraków |oclc=750637689 |editor-last2=Czopek |editor-first2=Ludwik |editor-last3=Pieszczachowicz |editor-first3=Jan}}</ref> 20 volumes and a supplement were released in total<ref name=":0" />) with the second in 1998 (under the name ''Multimedialna'' ''Encyklopedia Powszechna'' - Multimedia Popular Encyclopedia).<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://katalog.nukat.edu.pl/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=658785 |title=Multimedialna encyklopedia powszechna: wersja 1998 |date=1999 |publisher=FOGRA MULTIMEDIA |isbn=978-83-7231-727-8 |editor-last=Czopek |editor-first=Jarosław |location=Kraków |oclc=749846001 |editor-last2=Słowakiewicz |editor-first2=Wojciech |editor-last3=Turkot |editor-first3=Piotr}}</ref> It contained about 66,000 entries and various multimedia add-ons.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=1998-12-12 |title=WIEM - Wielka Internetowa Encyklopedia Multimedialna wydawnictwa Fogra |url=http://www.encyklopedia.pl/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981212024710/http://www.encyklopedia.pl/ |archive-date=1998-12-12}}</ref>
The 1998 edition was also released online (www.encyklopedia.pl) under the name Wielka Interaktywna Encyklopedia Multimedialna<ref name=":1" /> and in 2000 was acquired by the Polish web portal Onet.pl. Around that time it was the largest Polish language online encyclopedia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Latek |first=Katarzyna |date=2002-03-17 |title=Encyklopedia.com |url=https://www.wprost.pl/tygodnik/12520/encyklopediacom.html |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=Wprost |language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2000-05-27 |title=WIEM więcej |url=https://www.wprost.pl/zycie/19071/wiem-wiecej.html |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=Wprost |language=pl}}</ref> From 2004 to 2 March 2006 it was not free, however before and after it was free to access.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2006-03-03 |title=Encyklopedia 'Wiem' powszechnie dostępna |url=https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/encyklopedia-wiem-powszechnie-dostepna |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=www.wirtualnemedia.pl |language=pl}}</ref> As of the 9th online edition in 2006, it contains 125,000 entries. The number of articles has been reported as similar in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-09-26 |title=Ponad milion haseł w polskiej Wikipedii |url=https://naukawpolsce.pl/spoleczenstwo/news,397230,ponad-milion-hasel-w-polskiej-wikipedii.html |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=Nauka w Polsce |language=pl}}</ref>
It received several awards in the late 1990s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taraszkiewicz |first=Beata |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k7TjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Encyklopedia+WIEM%22 |title=Książka multimedialna na CD-ROM w Polsce: do 2000 roku |date=2003 |publisher=Wydawn. SBP |isbn=978-83-87629-98-4 |pages=91 |language=pl}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://zapytaj.onet.pl/ Homepage]
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