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Wikipedia is one of the world's largest and most popular public goods. Students around the world can access archives of information for homework, general knowledge, and random wasting of time on the internet. However, Wikipedia is not free to operate, as it requires money to pay its staff and maintain its servers.

Free riding is one of the biggest issues for Wikipedia, as millions of people use it daily without incurring any of the costs.

Assuming Wikipedia thinks it has too many free riders, which solution would NOT reduce, or offset, the free rider problem?

Jimmy Wales, the founder, makes personal, appeals asking users to donate a charitable amount to keep Wikipedia going.

Wikipedia sells its sidebar space to advertising.

Wikipedia creates a duplicate website, Wekepedia, with the same content as Wikipedia but that costs users $$25$ a year.

Wikipedia would remain free to the public.

Wikipedia charges a small fee of $$1$ per year membership to everyone except those who author content$-$approved Wikipedia articles.