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Angela Beesley
Angela Beesley in November 2005
Known for Co-founder of Wikia; chair of the advisory board and former member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Angela Ruth Beesley (born 1977 in Norwich, England)[1] is a British Internet entrepreneur.[2] She is a co-founder of Wikia and its vice president for community relations.[3][4] Involved in Wikipedia since 2003, Beesley was elected to the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2004, and re-elected in 2005.[5][6] During this time, she was active in editing content and setting policy, such as privacy policy, within the Foundation.[7] She resigned from the board in July 2006.[8][9]
In October 2004, Beesley founded a for-profit Wiki hosting service with Jimmy Wales called Wikia.[10] She also sits on the advisory board of the media archive Ourmedia.[4] Since February 21, 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation.[11] She chairs the Foundation's Advisory Board.[12] She contributed a chapter to the book Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration.[13]
Beesley grew up in Maidstone and Colchester and has a degree in psychology.[1] Before joining the board of the Wikimedia foundation, she had worked at the Aston Dyslexia and Developmental Assessment Centre and the National Foundation for Educational Research, based in Berkshire.[1]
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^ a b c "Wikimedia Press Information, August 2005" (pdf). Wikimedia. Retrieved on 2008-06-22. ^ Tom McNichol (April 3 2007). "Building a Wiki World", CNN. ^ "Wiki sites proliferate, but can they profit?", International Herald Tribune. Retrieved on 6 December 2007. "With financing from technology luminaries like Marc Andreessen and Mitchell Kapor, he and Angela Beesley started Wikia, which includes 1,500 separate wikis, from the Star Wars-focused Wookieepedia to user-generated pages on depression." ^ a b Adam Turner (2005-11-05). "Quest for the universal Wiki". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 2007-07-07. ^ Robert Levine (August 7, 2006). "The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place", The New York Times. ^ Ryan Singel (2006). "Wonderful Wiki Sidebar", Wired News. ^ Riehle, Dirk. "How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko", www.riehle.org, 2006. ^ David Adams (February 22, 2007). "Fast facts found online", The Age. ^ "Angela Beesley resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board", Wikimedia Foundation press release, July 7, 2006. ^ Daniel Pink. "The Book Stops Here". in Brendan I. Koerner. The Best of Technology Writing 2006, University of Michigan Press. pp.116. ISBN 0472031953. ^ "Resolution creation communications committee", Wikimedia Foundation, September 26, 2006. ^ "Advisory Board - Wikimedia Foundation". Retrieved on 2007-05-18. ^ "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration", booki.info, June 14, 2006.
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