OpenID & MediaWiki: What's the current state?

[Dan Lyke]

I recently installed MediaWiki 1.8.2 because I kind of thought that  
OpenID with it would be easy.

I first tried the OpenID extension, but that failed with a complaint  
when it came back from the authentication, the URL it gave appended a  
"?lotsofstuff" to rewritten shorter URL and, since I think I prefer  
the user experience that the JanRain version gives, rather than pursue  
fixing that I popped over to openidenabled.com and grabbed that patch.

The JanRain patch I used is from  
http://www.openidenabled.com/software/mediawiki/janrain.diff/view. I  
first looked at applying it by hand, got kind of confused, did a quick:

   cd flutterby_net/mediawiki-1.8.2
   patch -p1 < patch

and got a whole mess o' rejects. A few made sense, but... It looks  
like the structure of SpecialUserlogin.php has changed since these  
patch files were created.

Anyone else playing with this? Should I go back to the OpenID  
extension and try just remapping the bad URLs in my web server?

Thanks!

Dan