There's a non-insignificant rate of 500 errors coming from the Mobile-Content-Service for request for the feed. Here's a logstash dashboard showing the errors.
Some examples:
- https://ja.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2016/06/16
- https://de.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2016/05/23
- https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2016/05/23
Also there're some 500 errors for mobile-sections requests: