<quote name="Ryan Lane" date="2013-02-22" time="14:00:49 -0800">
This isn't really a matter of having one or the other. As Marc has mentioned, we need some non-hacky form of authentication for bots, tools, out-of-cluster applications, and non-mediawiki applications.
Right, figured not, just trying to clarify.
OpenID as a consumer is a more difficult task for a number of reasons. I like to tackle problems one at a time and making a provider is an easy first step.
Reasonable :)