diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index d9f90bc753..a343eb3601 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -867,8 +867,7 @@
 				"visualeditor-redirect-description",
 				"visualeditor-savedialog-identify-anon",
 				"visualeditor-savedialog-identify-trylogin",
-				"visualeditor-savedialog-identify-user",
-				"visualeditor-saveerror"
+				"visualeditor-savedialog-identify-user"
 			],
 			"targets": [
 				"desktop",
diff --git a/i18n/ve-mw/en.json b/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
index 2efeb11746..912105d7c6 100644
--- a/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
+++ b/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
@@ -372,7 +372,6 @@
 	"visualeditor-savedialog-title-review": "Review your changes",
 	"visualeditor-savedialog-title-save": "Save your changes",
 	"visualeditor-savedialog-warning-dirty": "Your edit may have been corrupted – please review before saving.",
-	"visualeditor-saveerror": "Error saving data to server: $1.",
 	"visualeditor-section-body-placeholder": "New section",
 	"visualeditor-section-title-placeholder": "Subject",
 	"visualeditor-loaderror-revidconflict": "Revision IDs returned by the server do not match (document: $1, metadata: $2).",
diff --git a/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json b/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
index 88e4e44921..6920bb90b8 100644
--- a/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
+++ b/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
@@ -392,7 +392,6 @@
 	"visualeditor-savedialog-title-review": "Title for save dialog slide for the wikitext diff",
 	"visualeditor-savedialog-title-save": "Title for save dialog slide for the final save step. Appears between the buttons {{msg-mw|visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog}} and {{msg-mw|visualeditor-dialog-action-cancel}}.",
 	"visualeditor-savedialog-warning-dirty": "Note displayed to users in the save dialog if VisualEditor believes that it may have corrupted the page.",
-	"visualeditor-saveerror": "Text shown when the editor fails to save properly.\n\nParameters:\n* $1 is an error message, in English.",
 	"visualeditor-section-body-placeholder": "Placeholder for surface when adding a new section",
 	"visualeditor-section-title-placeholder": "Placeholder for title input when adding a new section\n{{Identical|Subject}}",
 	"visualeditor-loaderror-revidconflict": "Error message shown when loading the editor.\n\nParameters:\n* $1 and $2: revision IDs, as numbers",
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.ArticleTarget.js b/modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.ArticleTarget.js
index 9e853d4ddc..4d62f0eeff 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.ArticleTarget.js
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.ArticleTarget.js
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ ve.init.mw.ArticleTarget.prototype.extractErrorMessages = function ( data ) {
  */
 ve.init.mw.ArticleTarget.prototype.saveErrorEmpty = function () {
 	this.showSaveError(
-		ve.msg( 'visualeditor-saveerror', ve.msg( 'visualeditor-error-invalidresponse' ) ),
+		this.extractErrorMessages( null ),
 		false /* prevents reapply */
 	);
 };