This has happened to me too, and I don't think it's a local or proxy cache problem because of what happened when I created the [[Whistler's Mother]] article.
Initially it wouldn't save, but I kept persevering and finally got it to go; it showed up in Recent Changes -twice-. It still shows up twice in my contributions list and watchlist, once seemingly permanently marked "new" and another version showing the changes that have been made to it since creation.
If it makes any difference, that article also starts with ''' as its first characters.
-Hephaestos