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The groups of users detailed below have undertaken vows of service to the Monastery. See What are PerlMonks Orders? for more information on user groups, such as how to join one. There are also a few other user groups that have less important purposes (developers, SiteDocManagers, Site Documentation Clan, editors, pmtesters, holders of unholy power, Breathers of Fire, tinkers, punsters, and pirates). Orders of Monkscabal (Top)Cabal is an umbrella group containing all the other user groups. It was created mainly to allow all the groups to discuss things together in a shared wiki. The existence of this group also allows each group to read the other groups' wikis. The Cabal Matrix shows which users are in which groups. gods (Top)
The gods are the administrators of the PerlMonks web site.
In addition, they have their own unique powers, such as:
Gods do not have access to the servers on which PerlMonks runs!
The gods determine the policies which govern PerlMonks, and are the ultimate arbiters of site policy.
The gods are your court of last appeal: send a message to the gods.
If you really need an out-of-band way of contacting the site administrators, there also is perlmonks.org@gmail.com, but please really consider sending a message first. Membership in the gods group is by invitation only. You can't apply to join it like you can with other orders. Some of these gods have separate accounts for their non-godly activities; those "mortal" accounts are linked to near the top of each godly account's home node. pmdev (Top)pmdev (PerlMonks Developers) are the folks who write code patches to implement bug fixes and enhancement for the benefit of the site's users. They are the alchemists who frequently create gold from base metals, and, on rare occasion, explosions which rock the monastery from tower to tower. If you have an idea for an improvement to the site, you should post a writeup in the Perl Monks Discussion section — although you should discuss it in the Chatterbox first, just as a sanity check. If you have joined pmdev and don't know where to start, go to the PmDev HowTo Wiki. power users (Top)The power users help suppress offensive or disruptive users in the chatterbox; they can temporarily suspend a user's ability to use the messaging system (both cb and private messaging). This is called borg'ing a user. The default suspension is for 10 minutes. A list of all currently borg'ed users can be seen in the Borg's Belly. Spells for Power Users:
To spring someone from the brig early, Power Users can do so via the belly page. If you're a power user, you can visit the group's message inbox.
janitors (Top)The janitors keep the site free of "trash" (broken nodes) by fixing bad HTML formatting and remediating obstructive titles. See What do Janitors do? for information on how janitation works, and what role you can play in the process. Note: In times past, this group was known as 'editors', but the name was changed because their job is really just to clean up messes, not to serve in any kind of editorial capacity. QandAEditors (Top)QandAEditors place special designations on the most worthy questions and answers in the Seekers of Perl Wisdom section, so that future visitors can easily find the site's best content. SiteDocClan (Top)The SiteDocClan (aka SDC) write all the FAQlets that make up the PerlMonks FAQ, as well as the short texts appearing at the top of each site section (e.g. Seekers of Perl Wisdom), and various other pages around the Monastery. For details on what they do, see How is the PerlMonks FAQ maintained? pedagogues (Top)The Pedagogues have purview over the Tutorials section of PerlMonks. They do the following:
One thing which is explicitly not in the Pedagogues' charter is to write tutorials. A Pedagogue may write a tutorial, but s/he does so as a private citizen, not in her/his official capacity as a Pedagogue. pollsters (Top)The pollsters regularly set up new polls for your education and entertainment, based on ideas suggested to them. |
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