QUOTE(Friday @ Thu 24th September 2009, 9:07am)
Some people really just want to improve articles, or add cats, or delete junk. Certainly there are some people who are just there for drama, but it's not worth taking their needs into consideration.
Wikipedia's governing process takes their needs into consideration, and in fact gives them undue weight (because they tend to be unusually vocal). You know all about this, because you exploit it on a regular basis.
It's my contention that the proportion of active Wikipedians who "really just want to improve articles, or add cats, or delete junk" is vanishingly small in comparison to those who are there to forward ideology, play the Wikipedia MMORPG, or play drama games. This is even more true when you consider the subset of Wikipedians who actively participate in site governance activities.