AI bots have relentlessly scraped Wikipedia’s information, straining the site’s servers. Beneath these threats is the foreboding feeling that the culture has drifted away from Wikipedia’s founding ideals. Still, there remains the possibility that Wikipedia’s most influential days lie in its future, assuming it recasts itself inside the crucible. Although nearly every major AI system trains on Wikipedia’s freely-licensed content, the tech industry’s message since 2022 has been that human-powered knowledge production has been rendered irrelevant by AI. When an AI system trains recursively on its own AI-generated synthetic data, it is likely to suffer from model collapse.