I believe Sabine was involved with a Farsi project (which may not have turned out well by her standards!) but which was paid creation of translated content.
SJ On 9/11/09, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/11 Joseph Reagle <[email protected]>: > > > > So, on this note, what are some examples of content that was produced > > for pay at the Wikimedia Foundation? I can think of some archival material, > > such as the use of some material form the 11th edition of Britannica and > > images now in Commons. > > > There's a vast amount of PD material produced by the US government we > use, which I think qualifies. Verbatim copying of the source text is a > more rare now than it used to be, but a *lot* of our images are taken > by professional photographers - or, failing that, people doing it in > the course of their job - at NASA, the US Army, or any of a hundred > smaller agencies. > > Of course, as you say, none of this was produced *for us*. We're happy > to absorb high-quality material intended for another purpose, but I'm > not aware of many cases where we've taken on professionally produced > material which had been created (for pay) with the intent of using it > here. > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
