1 INTRODUCTION

2 THE DATA
2.1 The Survey

3 PROPERTIES AND CALIBRATION OF THE WGN SAMPLE
3.1 Completeness Correction
3.2 Distance Estimates
3.3 Proper Motions and Global Space Velocities

4 ANALYSIS
4.1 Kinematic and Number-Density Modeling in Observable Space
4.2 Maximum likelihood determination of the thick disk kinematic parameters
4.3 Substructure in the Galactic thick disc?
4.4 Modeling number counts - the thick disk scale length
4.5 Characterizing the stars in the thick disk substructure
4.6 Complementary and pre-discovery studies

5 CONCLUSIONS