What Is the PAX Wiki on pax.wikidot.com?

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The PAX Wiki at pax.wikidot.com is a community-maintained resource for the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), hosted on the Wikidot platform. It is not an official PAX website. Instead, it collects attendee-oriented information — event basics, community events, travel logistics, and local area guides — into one place. It's most useful if you're planning a trip to PAX and want a single starting point for practical questions, but you should treat it as fan-compiled material rather than an authoritative source.

What the site is

The homepage describes it plainly: "A Penny Arcade Expo resource," created "to be a central place for information about the event." The framing is attendee-focused — the welcome text says it was built so readers could plan "your perennial trip to Arcadia," a reference to the fictional setting PAX draws its name and theme from.

Two things follow from this:

  • It's a wiki, not an official channel. Content is editable by contributors, so accuracy and freshness vary by page.
  • It's hosted on Wikidot. The site runs on Wikidot's wiki engine, which is why you'll see standard wiki furniture like page tags, a "recent changes" list, and per-page edit tools.

What it covers

The navigation is organized around planning a PAX trip. From the homepage, the main sections are:

Category Pages listed
Event Info Main Page
Community Events PC Freeplay, Console Freeplay, Tabletop Gaming, BYOC LAN Party, Tournaments, Panels, Concerts
Travel Main Page, Attendee Map, Canadian Supertrip, Cross Country Supertrip, West Coast Train Trip
Area Guide Main Page, Transportation, Food, Hotels, Entertainment, Parking
Advice Main Page

The homepage also poses the questions the wiki tries to answer: what PAX is, where it is, how to get there, who else is going, what there is to do, what hotels and food are nearby, what companies and panels and special guests will be there, and how to contribute.

The Area Guide section is unusually granular. Its page tags include specific food and drink categories — breakfast, burger, burrito, calzone, coffee, crepes, happy-hour, microbrew, pasta, pastries — alongside tags like "american," "canada," "coast," and "desert." That tag list gives you a sense of how the food and area pages are indexed: by cuisine, meal type, and region.

Who it's for

This wiki suits you if:

  • You're attending PAX and want attendee-written notes on travel, lodging, food, and parking.
  • You're interested in community-run activities like freeplay rooms, LAN parties, or tournaments.
  • You want a jumping-off point that links out to the official PAX site, forums, IRC, and Twitter.

It's less suited to you if you need confirmed schedules, official policies, or current pricing — those belong on the official Penny Arcade Expo site and forums, which the wiki links to under "Useful Links."

Practical details

  • Licensing: Unless otherwise stated, content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.
  • Contributing: The site invites contributions and provides standard wiki tools — adding a new page, editing sections, viewing page history, and managing attachments.
  • Account: There are "Create account" and "Sign in" options, consistent with Wikidot's model of letting users join a site to edit.

How to use it

  1. Start at the main page and use the left-hand navigation to pick a category (Event Info, Community Events, Travel, Area Guide, Advice).
  2. For trip planning, go straight to Travel and Area Guide — those hold the transportation, hotel, food, and parking pages.
  3. Cross-check anything time-sensitive against the official PAX site, since a community wiki can lag behind schedule or venue changes.
  4. If you find gaps, the site supports adding pages and editing, so you can contribute what you learn.

The short version: pax.wikidot.com is a fan-built PAX planning wiki on Wikidot, strongest on attendee logistics and local area tips, and best used alongside — not instead of — official PAX sources.