diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index 07ef8ad1e3..bc57d9e188 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -814,8 +814,7 @@
 				"visualeditor-savedialog-title-preview",
 				"visualeditor-savedialog-title-review",
 				"visualeditor-savedialog-title-save",
-				"visualeditor-savedialog-warning-dirty",
-				"visualeditor-serializeerror"
+				"visualeditor-savedialog-warning-dirty"
 			],
 			"targets": [
 				"desktop",
@@ -866,8 +865,7 @@
 				"visualeditor-savedialog-identify-anon",
 				"visualeditor-savedialog-identify-trylogin",
 				"visualeditor-savedialog-identify-user",
-				"visualeditor-saveerror",
-				"visualeditor-serializeerror"
+				"visualeditor-saveerror"
 			],
 			"targets": [
 				"desktop",
diff --git a/i18n/ve-mw/en.json b/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
index 3b8e08edca..07ceb9a2d2 100644
--- a/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
+++ b/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
@@ -397,7 +397,6 @@
 	"visualeditor-saveerror": "Error saving data to server: $1.",
 	"visualeditor-section-body-placeholder": "New section",
 	"visualeditor-section-title-placeholder": "Subject",
-	"visualeditor-serializeerror": "Error loading data from server: $1.",
 	"visualeditor-loaderror-revidconflict": "Revision IDs returned by the server do not match (document: $1, metadata: $2).",
 	"visualeditor-loaderror-wrongmode": "Tried to load the editor in wrong mode (data type: \"$1\", editor mode: \"$2\").",
 	"visualeditor-settings-tool": "Page settings",
diff --git a/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json b/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
index d4bb966eea..490602e66a 100644
--- a/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
+++ b/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
@@ -417,7 +417,6 @@
 	"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-serializeerror": "Text shown when the editor fails to load the wikitext for saving.\n\nParameters:\n* $1 is an error message, in English.",
 	"visualeditor-loaderror-revidconflict": "Error message shown when loading the editor.\n\nParameters:\n* $1 and $2: revision IDs, as numbers",
 	"visualeditor-loaderror-wrongmode": "Error message shown when loading the editor.\n\nParameters:\n* $1 and $2: names for editing modes (not translateable)",
 	"visualeditor-settings-tool": "Text of tool in the toolbar the lets users set specific page settings.\n{{Identical|Page settings}}",
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.js b/modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.js
index 65f48c2913..d1c5b026a4 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.js
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/init/targets/ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.js
@@ -879,12 +879,7 @@ ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.prototype.serialize = function () {
 
 	return promise.fail( function ( error, response ) {
 		var $errorMessages = target.extractErrorMessages( response );
-		OO.ui.alert(
-			$( ve.htmlMsg(
-				'visualeditor-serializeerror',
-				$( '<span>' ).append( $errorMessages )[ 0 ]
-			) )
-		);
+		OO.ui.alert( $errorMessages );
 
 		// It's possible to get here while the save dialog has never been opened (if the user uses
 		// the switch to source mode option)