If commons is a completely independent of en.wikipedia, perhaps we should reconsider our present drive to move images to commons. I don't think that would be wise. The original intent of commons was to create a project that would serve all wikipedias rather than to create a freestanding media archive unrelated to any of them.
what drive? Last I cheacked the backlog at now commons was quite impressive. I'm quite happy to leave it that way for now. Othere wikis are somewhat more proacitve in this area. I don't know what their experence has been.