Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-3271569-20130303204403/@comment-452-20130318164828

It certainly makes things easier :)

You might like to read through http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions and related pages to learn about anything else you might need to use later.

On http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words there's a function "plural", which you could use instead of your "=1" check, but there's no real need to change it.

edit: after finding out that the plural: function wasn't very useful, I created a custom "plural" template, how I use it is NaN mins and it will return "1 min" or "2 mins", which saves a little space.

But I figure since you wanted a single template solution anyway, you probably don't want to create extra templates like that.