For me personally, the Perl Archive was one of the better Perl resources I found before wondering into the Monastery. Although there is a lot of bad code on there, it doesn't seem to be all bad (as with some of the other "CGI resource" sites out there), and it is offset by those articles you mentioned, which I found very helpful.

Unfortunately, the bad code keeps pouring into the site, while the articles don't. :-)
But even if you can't devote enough time, etc., to make the site what you would like, my vote is that it's better to light a candle...

Impossible Robot