2009/9/16 Tisza Gergő gtisza@gmail.com:
Some of them may be rephrased, and some localizations do not really need them at all. Foe example, in Hungarian "<number> <noun>" constructs the noun is always in singular, so we've been using "{{PLURAL:$1|one|$1}} thingy" because the automated checks complain if they see no PLURAL, but on hu.wikipedia it could be replaced with "$1 thingy" without trouble. (I'm not sure there are actually frequently loading messages which have PLURAL, but it's worth checking.)
Ideally there'd be a better way to mark a message as "yes, I know this usually uses PLURAL, but this language doesn't need it here", that'd also save useless efforts by the parser in expanding PLURAL.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)