Perhaps someone does not know, .. It is a city called Oslo in Marshall
County, Minnesota. ;)

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM, John Erling Blad <jeblad@gmail.com> wrote:
> The search is a kind of stupid dialogue system, and it only has a user
> model that is sensitive for language. A better dialogue system with an
> individual user model could use location as a hint for context. There
> are several heavy books about that topic!
>
> If I search for "Oslo" and live in Norway it is highly likely that I
> want the article about the city in Norway. If I live in Marshall
> County, Minnesota, it is not so obvious that I want the city in Norway
> to be ranked first. But what if I live in Norway and have just
> searched for Marshall County? It is not easy to get these things
> right, and it is a lot more difficult than just adding some aliases.
> The aliases can solve the alternate label problem, but it can not
> solve the user context problem.
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andy,
>>
>> I know we have an alias parameter...but...
>>
>> Do you want to set that alias on 24,000 Universities ?  I don't.
>> But perhaps a simple backend script could do it...sure.
>>
>> My point is to all, that having a wiser Wikidata Search seems like a logical
>> approach, and it doesn't change or skew the intent or meaning of the data as
>> the rest of you have raised that concern.  Its just a smarter Search, that
>> is more helpful to folks finding entities and properties.
>>
>>
>> Thad
>> +ThadGuidry
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15 June 2015 at 02:54, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > It seems advantageous to somehow tell Wikidata Search that when someone
>>> > types Harvard College to interchange and also look for Harvard
>>> > University,
>>> > and vice versa.
>>>
>>> This is what the "alias" parameter is for.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andy Mabbett
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>>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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