On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Zach H. luckenbach@gmail.com wrote:
When using the wgDBservers option do I need to also use MySQL replication or does this handle it all?
Yes, you will. MediaWiki will only write to the master but will read from any slave (per the docs, the first entry in $wgDBservers is considered the master).
Depending on how complicated your setup is, the LoadBalancer configuration may also be of use to you:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLBFactoryConf
-Chad