There are something similar to paid translations in what you may call prioritized articles. That is articles that are so important for a language that they should be written, no matter whether they exist in a larger language.
For example in the Northern Sami Wikipedia there should be an article about Sami border guides during WWII. The article at nowiki describes exclusively border guides between Norway and Sweden, [1] which where a rather low intensity border during WWII. The frontier between Norway and Russia was much more hostile, and later in the war also the frontier between Norway and Finland. The article at enwiki is similar. [2] There are a number of good sources, and also some quite interesting articles.[3][4][5]
I wonder if such important articles can be prioritized on a list of paid work by WMF, as they are extremly important to balance facts that otherwise can go unnoticed by the community. We as a community tend to write about our interests, and so reflects the interest of the larger society. That society is not necessarily aware of some of the biases that is inherent in our common knowledge.
[1] https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenselos [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_guide [3] https://forskning.no/andre-verdenskrig/2015/02/risikerte-livet-ble-fratatt-a... [4] https://www.nrk.no/nordland/vil-ha-frem-samenes-krigsinnsats-1.11694527 [5] https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/samiske-grenseloser-reddet-tusenvis-sa-ble-...