What PAX event and activity information does the PAX wiki cover?

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The PAX wiki at pax.wikidot.com is a community-maintained resource for the Penny Arcade Expo, organized around two broad categories: what happens at the event and how to get there and stay there. It is most useful if you want a single place to browse event activities, travel logistics, and area recommendations before a trip. Because it is a wiki rather than an official schedule, treat specific times, guests, and lineups as potentially outdated and confirm them against the official PAX site and forums, which the wiki itself links to.

Event and activity coverage

The wiki groups on-site programming by activity type, so you can jump to the kind of PAX experience you care about:

  • Community Events — gatherings and meetups organized around the attendee community.
  • PC Freeplay and Console Freeplay — open play areas for each platform.
  • Tabletop Gaming — board and card gaming space.
  • BYOC LAN Party — bring-your-own-computer LAN sessions.
  • Tournaments — competitive events.
  • Panels — session programming; the wiki also has a page asking what panels will be at PAX.
  • Concerts — musical performances tied to the event.

The main page frames these as answers to common attendee questions, including what PAX is, where it is, how to get there, who else is going, and what there is to do.

Travel, area, and logistics coverage

A separate cluster of pages handles the trip around the event:

  • Attendee Map — spatial orientation for the event.
  • Area Guide — what is nearby.
  • Transportation, Parking — getting to and around the venue.
  • Food, Hotels, Entertainment — where to eat, stay, and spend time outside the show floor.

The food and area content is tagged in detail (for example: breakfast, burger, burrito, coffee, happy-hour, microbrew, Mexican, pasta, pastries), which suggests the wiki functions partly as a crowd-sourced local guide rather than only an event schedule.

Trip-route pages

Some pages are organized by travel route or region rather than by activity, including:

  • Canadian Supertrip
  • Cross Country Supertrip
  • West Coast Train Trip

These are useful if you are planning a group or long-distance journey to the event and want to see how other attendees have structured the trip.

How to use it and what to watch for

The wiki is built on Wikidot and is openly editable — it offers "Add a new page," page tags, comments, and a page-history view, and content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 unless stated otherwise. That openness is the main caveat: activity lineups, panels, special guests, and venue details change year to year, and a community wiki may lag behind. Use it to understand the shape of PAX and to gather travel and area ideas, then verify dates, guests, and schedules on the official Penny Arcade Expo site and forums linked from the wiki.