User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: August 31, 2016/@comment-4568327-20160901140903/@comment-126761-20160901205331

That's odd - I'll bring it up with the team.

Edit: it looks like the VE has said 'Save page' instead of 'Publish' for quite a while - it's not related to the above issues. We'll give some thought to whether to make it consistent (and if so, which version should win).