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Welcome to the Yale-NYU Wikipedia Project web site. This is the home of the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded study of how academics and academic subjects are represented on Wikipedia. Titled, “Wikipedia and the Democratization of Academic Knowledge, the study is being directed by Professors Julia Adams of Yale University and Hannah Brückner of NYU Abu Dhabi.”

Adams and Brückner’s research focuses on how Wikipedia represents the academic enterprise as a window into the shaping of knowledge more generally. The research is meticulously comparing the structure and demography of scientific, humanities and social scientific disciplines with their Wikipedia entries to better understand the development of the online encyclopedia.

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Research by Professors Julia Adams (Yale) and Hannah Brückner (NYU-Abu Dhabi) on science, gender, and Wikipedia was discussed at NBC News today. Professor Adams was quoted in...
Reprinted from LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | Wikipedia has a gender problem. The online, crowdsourced encyclopedia is open to anyone who wants...
Professor Hannah Brückner is using her experience studying gender and sexual inequality to investigate a relatively new technological phenomenon and field of knowledge —...