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Doug Webb
@douginamug@mastodon.xyz  路  activity timestamp 5 months ago

A little over a year ago I wrote a #Wikipedia article about the "Goose and the Common", an 18th century poem about the privatization of #commons land during the enclosures in England:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_and_the_Common

My partner just started reading "Sunrise on the Reaping", the second prequel to the #HungerGames trilogy, which quotes the poem. Page views jumped up 3X when the book was published in March, and are still greatly elevated. So I guess the internet is not fully dead yet :)

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The Goose and the Common - Wikipedia

A screenshot of the page view graph of the "Goose and the Common" Wikipedia article. It's a bar chart, with bars in pale blue. The y-axis starts at 0 and goes up to 180 (views per day). Page views increased slowly after publication, but the rise is very dramatic on the day the book was released. Link to graph: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2024-03-01&end=2025-06-02&pages=The_Goose_and_the_Common
A screenshot of the page view graph of the "Goose and the Common" Wikipedia article. It's a bar chart, with bars in pale blue. The y-axis starts at 0 and goes up to 180 (views per day). Page views increased slowly after publication, but the rise is very dramatic on the day the book was released. Link to graph: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2024-03-01&end=2025-06-02&pages=The_Goose_and_the_Common
A screenshot of the page view graph of the "Goose and the Common" Wikipedia article. It's a bar chart, with bars in pale blue. The y-axis starts at 0 and goes up to 180 (views per day). Page views increased slowly after publication, but the rise is very dramatic on the day the book was released. Link to graph: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2024-03-01&end=2025-06-02&pages=The_Goose_and_the_Common
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