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Comment from en.wikiquote
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[edit]"I personally use WD to search for less-known information which can be used in pages that are currently included in the English Wikiquote. For example I used WD to locate a page on the Hebrew Wikiquote about the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.
I also use this information to start new pages that currently do not have a complementary English Wikipedia article, a practice that some here would like to eliminate, but which is crucial for those of us involved with the #shesaid campaign, since it is well-known that for one reason or another some very deserving women do not have an article on the English Wikipedia. Some women may have an article on say, the German wikipedia, when one is not available on the ENWP. It is possible for determined contributors to extract useful information for building an article from a foreign language wiki, even when they do not speak the language. I use google translate a lot for these purposes.
Unfortunately I am not able to use any of the advanced features available to those with sql access to this database, but I can still use WD in a purely manual fashion as I tried to convey above."