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Back in grad school I had a well-respected tenured prof point out that Wikipedia was great for looking up immutable and uncontroversial technical things (e.g., a list of refractive indices) and could even be good as a starting point for learning about a topic to research it. You just can't stop there.

Wikipedia doesn't need this to finance their operations. They have so much money from donations they don't know what to do with it. If they had used it wisely they could have built a large enough endowment to be self-sustaining by now, but unfortunately they didn't.

You think loan decisions and insurance rates will be made based on a computer program trained on a Wikipedia page? That's... not how any of that works.