You’ll find that Wikipedia doesn’t need to beg. They have millions and millions of dollars banked.
In AI corpus training, Wikipedia is often held-out, because it could lead to overfitting on its summation of all the citations it employs. The opposite of the claim of this vapid plea.
Instead, AI is trained on telltale things like “This isn’t about xxx, it’s about xxx” that watermark its output that pretends to be human. Other things, like repetitive patterns of identical dashes, and evenly-spaced section introductions, further reinforce when language is wholly AI-generated. When used to try to represent actual human interaction, such as being posted as impersonations of people, are the real damage.