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Incorrect Latvian case order

Every Latvian declension table on here is ordered incorrectly where Accusative is placed after Nominative. Accusative should be between Dative and Instrumental. I've already gone through and fixed (or made edit requests) on several other regional Wiktionaries that had copied from here, but here all of them are protected. I initially made a post on the Noun declension talk page, but here is the list of tables that should be fixed:

• Template:lv-decl-noun-table
• Template:lv-decl-adj
• Template:lv-decl-part-table
• Template:lv-decl-card-num
• Template:lv-decl-indef-pro
• Template:lv-decl-possessive_pronoun
• Template:lv-decl-possessive_pronoun-š
• Template:lv-decl-personal_pronoun

–EdnessP (talk) 14:32, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Update, seems like I now had enough edits with this to become autoconfirmed, so I was able to fix them myself now! –EdnessP (talk)

{{vern}} and Old High German (two unrelated matters)

I've noticed that {{vern}} automatically converts ' apostrophes to curly ’ apostrophes in the links it forms on Wikipedia. E.g. devil's bit scabious leads to the nonexistent page Devil’s bit scabious while non-curly Devil's bit scabious does exist as a redirect on Wikipedia.

Is there some way that {{vern}} could be agnostic about whether the Wikipedia page it connects to has a curly or non-curly apostrophe? This is likely to be a perennial issue with vernacular names of organisms that have apostrophes.

I've also noticed that Jberkel's list of requested items for Gothic indicates Bardilo and Bardzila as sources for -ilo. It looks to me like this is due to an Old High German word appearing in the etymologies of both. Could this mean that somewhere in the templates/modules for OHG, the parameter got has been used instead of goh? I've noticed Cornish terms get sorted into the equivalent Welsh list for precisely this reason.

Many thanks, Arafsymudwr (talk) 20:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Top left Wiktionary logo in dark mode

Kindly add the following to MediaWiki:Gadget-Site.css:

@media screen {
  html.skin-theme-clientpref-night img.mw-logo-icon {
    color-scheme: light;
    filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);
  }
}
@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  html.skin-theme-clientpref-os img.mw-logo-icon {
    color-scheme: light;
    filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);
  }
}

This will invert the Wiktionary logo on the top left in dark mode. I have tested on User:Matrix/common.css Matrix (talk) 21:42, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't know what color-scheme: light helps. In addition, the filter should do better work with the colors, e.g. something like invert(1) brightness(55%) contrast(250%) hue-rotate(180deg). — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 21:58, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Why would we do this? DCDuring (talk) 22:45, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

What do you mean? — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 10:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

The Wiktionary logo is currently dark-on-dark in night mode, which makes it hard to see Matrix (talk) 13:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@Surjection color scheme: light prevents dark mode overrides from happening. It's not strictly necessary here as the style theme-night has been disabled at MediaWiki:Wikimedia-styles-exclude. Also, your filter (invert(1) brightness(55%) contrast(250%) hue-rotate(180deg)) seems to work a lot better so you (or the deciding IA) can add that instead Matrix (talk) 13:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

OK,  done. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 13:25, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Javanese transliteration

I modified Module:jv-translit to transliterate ꦚ꧀ꦕ and ꦚ꧀ꦗ as nc and nj, rather than nyc and nyj. But for some reason, it doesn't affect Module:number list/data/jv or Template:jv-set. How do I fix it? @Aprihani @Bismabrj @Corypight @Dejongstebroer @FlintstoneSpark @Flyflower234 @KIDE777 @NeilCooper @Pras @Rex Aurorum @Riemogerz @SamanthaPuckettIndo @TAC0799 @Xbypass YukaSylvie (talk) 04:07, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Etymology trees and wrong definition

I was looking at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kul%C4%85 and noticed it has cabbage loans in the descendants. How can I stop those from inclusion in this coal page? I wish to apply a fix to that page later when I log in. 24.244.23.128 04:45, 4 January 2025 (UTC)