Aliases have been prominently added to the entity suggester. They are too prominent now. We need to find a way to make them less in-your-face.
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This Phabricator ticket misses an actual description of the issue (screenshot, steps to reproduce, example URL). :-(
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=wbsearchentities&search=Gender&type=property&language=de
lists 1 alias.
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsgetsuggestions&search=gender&format=jsonfm&language=en&entity=Q20412906
lists 1 alias (?), even if the entity does have multiple aliases.
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsgetsuggestions&search=coord&format=jsonfm&entity=Q937
lists multiple aliases (?).
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsgetsuggestions&search=&format=jsonfm&language=en&entity=Q20412906
(note the missing search term, which is what happens initially) lists all matching aliases.
Patch: https://github.com/Wikidata-lib/PropertySuggester/pull/141
The pull request is merged. Now what? Does PropertySuggester need a release? Can we test this somewhere?
https://github.com/Wikidata-lib/PropertySuggester/pull/143 is sitting there and waiting. Why nobody merge and release?
I merged the pull request and tagged 2.4.1 https://github.com/Wikidata-lib/PropertySuggester/releases/tag/2.4.1