Currently our infra is heavily under strain due to massive number of requests coming from mobileapps.
Looking in depth shows one reason is that mobileapps loads the whole item via calling wbgetentities API endpoint to load labels and descriptions (https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia/blob/10f32a8662c12c252cc152348a06674c3087d34d/app/src/main/java/org/wikipedia/dataclient/Service.kt#L360)
This is 1- Extremely slow 2- Have a massive bloat of request response, some items are over MBs of data 3- bypasses four to five layers of cache we put in place for such cases.
It needs to use either https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bentityterms or https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageterms