Maybe I'm too stuck in my Perl 5 / Existing PerlMonks perspective, and I am not long enough in the monastery to know what made PerlMonks survive for nearly ten years - but when I read your node my first reaction was "oh no!!".

The main advantage of PerlMonks are its users. And by creating a new community in parallel, you will most surely split the current community. Which will lead to much slower response-times on questions (and possibly also to less valuable answers (as much know-how will have been moved away)) - and will lead to the decline of the current PerlMonks-site.
And there is no guarantee that a new-and-better Perl(6)Monks site will flourish ... even if you do everything right ... as you wrote yourself: there are plenty of Perl-related sites. What's one more? ;-)

On the other hand, a new and improved framework might also be beneficial for the current site - and address the major drawback: the performance.

After expressing these fears, here are some ideas

• the moderation-concept of PerlMonks is great; you will want to have the same
  • the XP-game honors the efforts of those who contribute most to the community
  • XPs are normally a good feedback for the poster to see if the content provided is good or not
  • the XP-game keeps people to come back, read many nodes (in order to select the nodes which are worth a vote) and to learn much that way
• you will need a large user-base when starting with the new site
  • think about importing all current user logins/homepages/... to the new site (possibly with an "opt-out" option) - that way the hurdle to go to the new site is low
  • even think about cross-site features (e.g. common XPs: all points earned in Perl6 are also valid in Perl5 and vice versa)
• you will need a large knowledge/article-base when starting with the new site
  • why not import/migrate all nodes from the current site? The new Perl(6)Monks could have an (as you put it) archeological Perl section
• regarding hosting of the server: one advantage of pair.com is that there are no tons of flashing advertising-banners - very eye-friendly!
• and of course you'll want to have some chatterbox ;-)
• and even more important: you will need monquips!

Rata (hoping the best for Perl6 and Perl5 )

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