These are totally *different* things. The Extension can offer both (!)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631 Wikimedia should become an OpenID provider
I'd love Wikimedia to be a provider, but I'd prefer we don't use the OpenID
extension for this. We have other authn/authz needs. We can't do authentication and authorization piecemeal without going insane.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9604 Support OpenID extension on all wikimedia projects
OpenID as a consumer on the sites is a really difficult problem. I'm not
even going to go into it in this thread.
Ideally both of these issues should have their own thread.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott