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on Feb 20, 2003 at 12:29 UTC ( [id://237057]=sitefaqlet: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Where should I post X?

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This FAQlet should help you decide where to submit your post. Posts submitted to the wrong section run the risk of being moved, down-voted, edited, or even deleted. If you see a node posted in an inappropriate section, please alert the janitors, or consider it to have it moved to the correct section.

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However, you might consider asking in the Chatterbox first (if you're a registered user). The response time tends to be quicker, and if it turns out that the problem/solutions are too much for the cb to handle, the kind monks will be sure to direct you to SoPW (or wherever the correct place might be).

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This is the place to share your thoughts on Perl (the language or the community), information technology, life as a programmer, or other related topics. This section is for non-question discussions. (However, discussions about PerlMonks belong in Perl Monks Discussion.)

One more thing: Meditations is sometimes used as a sounding-board — a place to post initial drafts of Perl tutorials, code modules, book reviews, articles, quizzes, etc. — so that the author can benefit from the collective insight of the Perl monks before publishing the finished item to its proper place (be it Tutorials, Code Catacombs, Reviews, or whatever). If you do this, it is generally considered appropriate to prefix your node title with "RFC:" (for "Request For Comments").

Perl Monks Discussion

This area is for discussing issues pertaining to the PerlMonks site. You can ask about how things work, or offer ideas on how the site could be improved, for example.

Unless the topic pertains to the PerlMonks web site, it does not belong in this section. For additional guidance, try Understanding and Using PerlMonks, or ask in the chatterbox.

Categorized Questions and Answers

This is PerlMonks' own ever-growing compendium of Perl knowledge, framed in a question-and-answer format.

This section emphasizes quality and succinctness. Questions should be precisely worded to elicit specific answers. (Of course, there's always more than one way to do things, so each question may have multiple answers.) Questions phrased (even unintentionally) to elicit discussion are not appropriate for this section.

Each Question and its Answers should be tightly focused, yet of general interest to the Perl programming community. If the asker is the only person who could benefit from the answers, or if the question is vague or open-ended, then it is subject to being moved to Seekers of Perl Wisdom (SoPW).

Note that you must be at least Level 5: Beadle to post Questions in this section.

Cool Uses for Perl

This is the best place for general Perl code offerings. (For specialized posting types, see the next two sections.)

Obfuscated code

  • Code whose function is not immediately apparent to anyone
  • Make your code as compact as possible, get rid of that needless whitespace, make things as confusing as possible.
  • Don't be too cocky with your post. You'll (almost) always get a reply which does the exact same thing in even less characters

Perl Poetry

  • Poetry written in perl
  • Using Perl to write Poetry
  • Using Perl to (imaginatively) output a poem
  • Poetry about Perl and/or programming

Perl News

If you have a legitimate news item for the whole Perl community, you should probably post it at one of the following:

However, if you really only want to broadcast it to the PerlMonks community, you may post it here.

Reviews

  • Perl related book reviews
  • Module reviews

Tutorials

This section is an ever-growing online textbook from which you can learn everything from Perl basics to advanced algorithmic techniques.

Ideally, the Tutorials section has a high value-to-noise ratio. Tutorial articles should be written so as to invite as little discussion as possible. Therefore, we recommend that, while you can post directly to the Tutorials section, it's generally better to follow this procedure:

  1. Write up your draft tutorial and put it in your scratchpad; broadcast requests for comments in the chatterbox and elsewhere.
    After revising,
  2. Post it as a new Meditation, with "RFC" in the title.
    Later, if it is generally acclaimed to be worthy of Tutorials, but needs more work first, then make the necessary revisions and
  3. Post the final version as a Tutorials node.

Also of interest: How does editing work in the Tutorials section?


(This FAQlet supercedes vroom's original document, (OBE) What section should I put this in?)

Another view of the same info (more or less) is The Perl Monks Guide to the Monastery.


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