If you know of any examples, you can leave them on my blog, or perhaps there's 
even a wiki page somewhere for this?

[[ http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/goldman-labor-squeeze

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Second, Goldman characterizes Wikipedia as atypical in rejecting contributions 
from paid/professional content creators. He is conflating the conflict of 
interest policy with the means of production. Yes, free and open source 
developers are often paid for their work, and while this hasn't taken off at 
Wikipedia (the market/incentives are different), I am not aware of any 
Wikipedia policy that prohibits the adoption of professionally produced content 
if it is appropriate to the encyclopedia and under a compatible license. 
However, Wikipedia is rightfully careful about contributors who edit articles 
about their own financial or reputational interests. This is the difference 
between incorporating content written by a paid expert on their topic of 
expertise, and rejecting their edits to their own biography.

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.

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