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I pay Weight Watchers $8 a month, just in case I decide to start dieting again. I havent used it in a year, but cancelling my subscription would mean admitting defeat.

I pay Hulu $7.99 a month for Hulu Plus even though it forces me to watch ads between my favorite shows. I yell at the screen every time, but whatever.

Emily Dreyfuss

Emily Dreyfuss is the online news and opinion editor at Wired. She spends a lot of time exploring Wikipedia rabbit holes.

I pay Netflix $8.99 a month mostly to watch Law and Order episodes I have on a USB stick my brother gave me for Christmas five years ago.

I pay The New York Times $15 a month, because I value the role its top-notch reporting plays in maintaining the checks and balances of our society.

I pay the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, about $35 a month for lazy parking practices that result in tickets. (Hey, the street signs here are ridiculous.)

So why not pay to maintain the greatest trove of human knowledge in the history of our species?

Wikipedia, like public radio, has been begging for money a few times each year since forever. Or so it seems. I remember the first time I saw co-founder Jimmy Wales face staring at me from the top of every. Single. Article. It was 2011. Jesus, I thought. Enough! I get it! You need money! Stop following me to articles about the island of Socotra or the demographics of Idaho! I dont need your hungry eyes glaring at me as Im reading up on 17th century body snatchers!

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A Polish town is to build the worlds first monument to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia designed to provide free information to anyone with a computer.

Costing 9,400, the tribute to the Internet website will be unveiled in a central square in Slubice, a town of 18,000 people near the German border.

The idea of the monument came from Krzysztof Wojciechowski, the director of a local college, who said he was on awe of the service Wikipedia provided and the websites scale.

Since its launch in 2001, the website has proved to be a hit in Poland, with the Polish version now boasting over a million articles, making it the 12th biggest Wikipedia site.

The statue, less than two metres tall and made of a laminated material designed to look like brass, will consist of four figures holding up the Wikipedia symbol. Its designer is Mihran Hakobjan, a 30-year-old Armenian-born artist, who graduated from a Slubice college.

Piotr Luczynski, the towns deputy mayor, said the statue could become a tourist attraction and also reflected the towns ideals and aspirations.

The monument a tribute to an entire community working selflessly for the benefit of others we found interesting and worthy of being in Slubice, he said.

Mr Luczynski added the statue fitted in with the aspirations of the town which despite being small wanted to be unique.

A spokeswoman for Wikipedia in Poland said she hoped the statue would raise awareness of the website and encourage people to contribute

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