>I participate regularly in the Featured Picture process on Wikimedia
Commons, and have lately been struggling against media in a similar vein.
It has been suggested that the Commons user
community is a bit more stocked with some of the more, uh, socially challenged
editors than other wikis are. I know David Gerard has complained about this in
the past on other lists.
I attribute this to the nature of editing there,
which is often less collaborative and parallel than solitary and
serial.
It does seem, sometimes, like users who can and do
do useful work but too frequently rub others the wrong way gravitate to working
on Commons if they don't eventually leave altogether.
Daniel Case