Three ways in

Ask, correct, or hand us something we do not have.

Each form prepares a structured email in your own mail application. Nothing is uploaded by this website, and nothing appears on the site until an editor has reviewed it.

How submissions are handled

01It reaches a queue, not the siteThe form prepares an email in your own mail application. Nothing reaches an editor until you choose to send it.
02Your mail stays under your controlThe page does not transmit or store the form. Your mail provider processes it only after you send the prepared message.
03Credit is opt-inIf your submission results in a change you are credited by the name you give us, unless you tell us not to.
04Corrections move the reviewed dateWhen a correction lands, the affected page’s reviewed date changes and the change is noted in the next Pulse issue.

Form 01

Ask PerlCoders a question

Answered in a Pulse issue or commissioned as a guide. Questions that name a concrete situation get better answers than questions that name a technology.

Your question

At least 30 characters. Include the constraint that makes it hard — the version, the host, the thing you are not allowed to install.

Name for credit

Optional. Leave blank to stay anonymous.

Email

Used to reply and to check the answer with you before it publishes. Nothing else.

I have read how submissions are handled, and I understand my question may be published with an answer.

Form 02

Submit a correction

The most useful corrections name a page, name the claim, and cite a source. Six Timeline entries are currently marked unverified — a primary source for any of them closes it.

Form 03

Submit a historical artifact

Old scripts, screenshots, mailing-list captures, catalogue pages. Rights information is a hard requirement, not a nicety: without a rights holder and a status we record the reference and do not display the material.

What it is

What it shows, and which entry or Timeline event it relates to.

Where it came from

Archive capture, personal copy, publication, mailing-list archive. Include a date if you have one.

Rights holder

Who holds the rights, or “unknown” if that is the honest answer. “Unknown” is acceptable; blank is not.

Link to the material

Optional. Do not attach files here — the website has no upload endpoint, and we would rather link than hold copies.

I have read how submissions are handled, and I understand that material without rights information will be recorded as a reference but not displayed.

No hidden submission endpoint All three forms validate locally and prepare a message addressed to the editorial contact in your mail application. Nothing is uploaded by this page; you can inspect, change or discard the message before sending it.

Other ways to reach us

Discussion happens on GitHub, where it is public and archived. Pull requests against the content collections are welcome and are the fastest route for a well-sourced Timeline correction.

Discussionsquestions and debate
Issuesbugs in the site or the labs
Pull requestscontent collections and code
Code of conductapplies everywhere above

Contributor template

A correction that arrives in this shape needs no follow-up questions.

correction.md

Page:    /timeline/#cgi-emerges
Claim:   "CGI takes shape around NCSA httpd, c. 1993"
Problem: date is approximate and unsourced
Source:  <primary source URL>
Proposed: <the corrected sentence>
Credit:  <name, or "none">