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PAX Community Resources (Wiki, Calendar, IRC, Minecraft)
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Introduction
Since launching the wiki at the end of 2011, the paxcommunity.net site has grown as a community resource. Thanks to the help of some dedicated contributors, the wiki has a growing wealth of PAX information. However, paxcommunity.net is a portal site that contains more resources than just the wiki. This thread is here to familiarize you with all the features of the community portal.
If you have any questions about how to use any of the features, please PM @Zerzhul or @Moe Fwacky. Common issues/questions will get posted to this thread.
It's worth reiterating here that all of these resources are unofficial, community-run resources. Penny Arcade/Reed Expo have no connection with paxcommunity.net nor the resources contained within. We will NEVER put any ads or revenue generating items on the paxcommunity site.
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Since launching the wiki at the end of 2011, the paxcommunity.net site has grown as a community resource. Thanks to the help of some dedicated contributors, the wiki has a growing wealth of PAX information. However, paxcommunity.net is a portal site that contains more resources than just the wiki. This thread is here to familiarize you with all the features of the community portal.
If you have any questions about how to use any of the features, please PM @Zerzhul or @Moe Fwacky. Common issues/questions will get posted to this thread.
It's worth reiterating here that all of these resources are unofficial, community-run resources. Penny Arcade/Reed Expo have no connection with paxcommunity.net nor the resources contained within. We will NEVER put any ads or revenue generating items on the paxcommunity site.
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As some have realized via targeted topic wikis in the past, the forums are not a good method to archive or detail a significant information about PAX. On-topic threads can cover a lot of things but inevitably information gets lost as time moves on. This has prompted a group of folks (including some that worked on the Hitchhiker's Guide to PAX East wiki) to create a general community wiki project to house collective PAX knowledge.
It is now open to the PAX Forum community at large for absorbing and creating content.
When reading the wiki, please keep in mind that there’s not a huge wealth of content yet. We've tried to get a lot of content pre-launch, but there are only so many hours in the day. If there's an absence of a page that you think should be there, and you want to write it, use the application to sign up for an account and create it.
When writing for the wiki, use an available boilerplate so that common article types stay stylistically similar. If there's a boilerplate category that doesn't exist yet, create a stub for it from the default if you know how, and if you don't, ask. Try to be as informative as possible without being too subjective. Perfect objectivity isn't expected, but it should be a goal of every article to be a knowledge base and not a guide. Obviously all the articles are slanted in a PAX perspective. A decent way to think of this is: is this an "about" article? or a "how-to" article?. Try to stick to "about" as much as possible.
If you want to contribute to the PAX Community Wiki Project, read the front page of the wiki for the application link.
Much of the current content is focused towards PAX East since it was the upcoming PAX when the wiki is started. Some folks are currently working on updating it with Prime info. Feel free to work on any area where you have good information.
If you have any technical problems with the wiki, contact @Zerzhul or @Moe Fwacky via PM. If certain issues become common, They will be posted here.
The global MediaWiki user's guide resides here.
There exists a Sandbox page with which to try out things before posting them to a specific page.
Community Event Pages so far
Other Community Information
General PAX Information
PAX Departments
Information for PAX East
Information for PAX Prime
Other Useful Links
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Previously relegated to its own thread, IRC information is now available on the PAXcommunity.net IRC page. There is also a wiki page dedicated to more robust information on how to get connected and authorized.
IMPORTANT: Some cell providers (such as Verizon) block SlashNET (and many other IRC networks) via non-wifi data connections (3g, 4g, edge, etc). Please read the bnc section on the wiki for more information about setting up a bouncer to get around this issue.
If you already know what you're doing, here's the basic info. Remember that you need to be registered to get voice.
Server/Channel Info
Server: irc.slashnet.org:6667
Channel: #pax
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The PAX community also hosts a Minecraft server. Why you ask? Because Minecraft is great, that's why. The resource page at paxcommunity.net has all the information you need to get started. For a quick look at what we've already built you can check out this live map of the multiverse. The menu is a hover menu on the right side of the window.
Upon joining the server, you will have ask for permissions in order to build. You can request permissions either directly from Contre or Moe Fwacky in IRC/Minecraft Chat or by e-mailing minecraft@paxcommunity.net with your minecraft username.
Also, please be sure to review the server rules and objectives.
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The newest addition to paxcommunity.net is the community calendar.
Due to popular demand for an event calendar, we’ve created the community calendar. Through this tool, anybody can add an event and have it appear on the public calendar. It also gives a simple user interface for easily finding about upcoming pax community events.
Discussion about a particular event can still easily occur within a broader location thread (like the vancouver thread, boston thread, etc), but individual event organizers can keep their events up to date in a public location that doesn’t require a special login to view, and doesn’t require the thread owner to keep the OP updated and the thread bumped.
In order to add an event for the first time, you will need to follow the following steps:
- Click here
- Create an account
- Return to the Calendar
- Click the +Post Your Event button at the top of the calendar.
- Enter the details of your event.
- Select the appropriate categories (PM @Moe Fwacky or @zerzhul to add more categories if you don't see an appropriate one available for your event)
- Click Publish
- ???
- PROFIT!
Note: Pre-PAX Events and Post-PAX events should only be used for events occurring either one week before or one week after PAX and in the same city (Seattle or Boston).You can filter what shows on your calendar by clicking on the Categories drop-down at the top of the calendar and selecting the category you wish to view. If you wish to link to a filtered calendar, follow the steps below:
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Long live #pax
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Minecraft is nothing but resources.
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