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'''PenguinWiki''' – sponsored by [[wp:Penguin Books|Penguin Books]] of {{tag|London}} and {{tag|De Montfort University}} of Leicester, {{tag|England}} – '''''A Million Penguins''''' was created.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/04/news.web20 Want to write a book? Just join the wiki queue] — ''The Guardian'', Vanessa Thorpe (arts and media correspondent), 4 February 2007, Guardian News and Media Limited, accessed: 13 May 2017</ref> This {{tag|Dead|was}} a wiki-{{tag| | '''PenguinWiki''' – sponsored by [[wp:Penguin Books|Penguin Books]] of {{tag|London}} and {{tag|De Montfort University}} of Leicester, {{tag|England}} – '''''A Million Penguins''''' was created.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/04/news.web20 Want to write a book? Just join the wiki queue] — ''The Guardian'', Vanessa Thorpe (arts and media correspondent), 4 February 2007, Guardian News and Media Limited, accessed: 13 May 2017</ref> This {{tag|Dead|was}} a wiki-{{tag|Novel|novel}} experiment, where anyone could {{tag|Writing|write}} and anyone can edit a {{tag|fiction}}al novel-in-progress. This unique {{tag|experiment}} in {{tag|Collaborative writing|collaborative}}, [[wiki]]-based {{tag|creative writing}} started 1 February {{tag|Founded in 2007|2007}},<ref>[[archive.org:20070210102941/http://www.amillionpenguins.com:80/wiki/index.php/Special:Ancientpages]]</ref> and ran for just five weeks. | ||
In late 2010, the content of <tt>aMillionPenguins.com</tt> became parking space after Penguin Books allowed the domain to lapse. As of November 2013, all seven sections are {{tag|Archived|preserved}} by the [[wp:Internet Archive|Internet Archive WaybackMachine]] at [[Archive.org]], as follows: | In late 2010, the content of <tt>aMillionPenguins.com</tt> became parking space after Penguin Books allowed the domain to lapse. As of November 2013, all seven sections are {{tag|Archived|preserved}} by the [[wp:Internet Archive|Internet Archive WaybackMachine]] at [[Archive.org]], as follows: | ||
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PenguinWiki – sponsored by Penguin Books of London and De Montfort University of Leicester, England – A Million Penguins was created.[1] This was a wiki-novel experiment, where anyone could write and anyone can edit a fictional novel-in-progress. This unique experiment in collaborative, wiki-based creative writing started 1 February 2007,[2] and ran for just five weeks.
In late 2010, the content of aMillionPenguins.com became parking space after Penguin Books allowed the domain to lapse. As of November 2013, all seven sections are preserved by the Internet Archive WaybackMachine at Archive.org, as follows:
Welcome page and Section 1 • Section 2 • Section 3 • Section 4 • Section 5 • Section 6 • Section 7
- Citations
- ↑ Want to write a book? Just join the wiki queue — The Guardian, Vanessa Thorpe (arts and media correspondent), 4 February 2007, Guardian News and Media Limited, accessed: 13 May 2017
- ↑ archive.org:20070210102941/http://www.amillionpenguins.com:80/wiki/index.php/Special:Ancientpages
- External links
- Living with A Million Penguins: inside the wiki-novel — The Guardian, Kate Pullinger, 12 March 2007, Guardian News and Media Limited, accessed: 13 May 2017
- A Million Penguins — on English Wikipedia
- A Million Penguins five years on — blog post by Kate Pullinger, writer and PhD external examiner, for www.TransLiteracy.com, 25 January 2012 (archived by Archive.org)
- Flight Paths — a networked novel by Kate Pullinger, Chris Joseph and participants