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== Description ==
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Sponsored by [[wp:Penguin Books|Penguin Books]] and [[wp:De Montfort University|De Montfort University]], '''''A Million Penguins''''' was a wikinovel experiment where anyone could write and anyone can edit a novel-in-progress.
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}}(Page count as of: 2008-07-24<br>wikiFactor as of: 2007-02-10)


The site's content became parking space after late 2010, when the domain expired. Only the first 21 chapters—comprising the first section out of seven—have been preserved at the [[wp:Internet Archive|Internet Archive]].


==External links==
'''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.
*[[wp:Collaborative fiction#A Million Penguins|''A Million Penguins'' on Wikipedia]]
 
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:
 
[[archive.org:20080506070805/http://www.amillionpenguins.com:80/wiki/index.php?title=Welcome|Welcome page and Section 1]]&nbsp;• [[archive.org:20070911160139/http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Section_2|Section 2]]&nbsp;• [[archive.org:20070913221125/http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Section_3|Section 3]]&nbsp;• [[archive.org:20070912054712/http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Section_4|Section 4]]&nbsp;• [[archive.org:20070914051747/http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Section_5|Section 5]]&nbsp;• [[archive.org:20070911085200/http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Section_6|Section 6]]&nbsp;• [[archive.org:20070911085139/http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Section_7|Section 7]]
 
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*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/mar/12/livingwithamillionpenguins 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
*[[wp:Collaborative fiction#A Million Penguins|''A Million Penguins'']] — on [[English Wikipedia]]
*[[archive.org:20160322213808/http://www.katepullinger.com/blog/comments/a-million-penguins-five-years-on|''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]])
**[http://FlightPaths.net Flight Paths] — a networked novel by [http://KatePullinger.com Kate Pullinger], [http://ChrisJoseph.org Chris Joseph] and [http://FlightPaths.net/participants.html participants]


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