How do you prepare Wikipedia for a potential crisis situation?

Wikipedia plays an outsized role in crisis because the AI engines weight it heavily, the press cites it routinely, and the article is often the first thing stakeholders read. The article will be edited during the crisis – by news editors, by journalists, by interested parties on the talk page. An article that is current, well-sourced, neutrally framed, and structurally sound before the crisis is one that absorbs the new editing pressure without losing the underlying picture. An article that is out of date, thinly sourced, or weakly framed is one that gets reshaped during the crisis in ways that often persist for years afterward and feed into AI engine narratives durably. The work before the crisis is the standard Wikipedia discipline: accurate factual record, reliable secondary sourcing, balanced coverage of difficult topics, current structure, and disclosed COI editing through Talk-page edit requests. We do this work routinely as part of proactive engagements and the difference shows in crisis outcomes.