AUSTIN RICHARD JEREM wrote:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Database::safeQuery". MySQL returned error "1267: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_bin,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost)".
You have one table in latin1_bin and another in utf8_general_ci. Then mediawiki tries to compare them. Perhaps there's a problem in the install script. I'm sure a case like this was broght before on this list.