Wikipedia is one of the world's largest and most popular public goods. Students around the world are able to 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 they have too many free riders, which solution would NOT reduce, or offset, the free rider problem? O

A. Jimmy Wales, the founder, makes personal appeals asking users to donate a charitable amount to keep Wikipedia going. O
B. Wikipedia charges a small SI per year membership fee to everyone except those who author content-approved O
C. Wikipedia sells its sidebar space to advertising. O
D. Wikipedia creates a duplicate website, Wekepedia, with the same content as Wikipedia, but costs $25 a year.
E. Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia would remain free to the public.

To solve the problem of free riding the owner of Wikipedia can make a public appeal for support, they can also include paid adverts on Wikipedia pages or even collect little membership fee per year from anyone trying to access their site.

A way of not solving the problem is leaving the site free. Another way of not totally solving the challenge is opening a twin site that collects charge and leaving the main site free: this would make the public to ignore the site involving payment and still stick to the free one.