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Angela Beesley Starling (born August 3, 1977,
in Norwich, England)[2]
is a British
Internet entrepreneur.[3]
She is a co-founder of Wikia and
its vice president for community relations.[4][5]
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.[6][7] During
this time, she was active in editing content and setting policy,
such as privacy policy, within the Foundation.[8]
She resigned from the board in July 2006.[9][10]
In October 2004, Beesley founded a for-profit Wiki hosting service with Jimmy Wales called Wikia.[11] She
also sits on the advisory board of the media archive Ourmedia.[5]
Since February 21, 2006, she has been a member of the
Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation.[12] She
chairs the Foundation's Advisory Board.[13] She
contributed a chapter to the book Wikis: Tools for Information
Work and Collaboration.[14]
Beesley grew up in Maidstone and Colchester and has a degree in psychology.[2]
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.[2]
On November 23, 2008, she married MediaWiki developer Tim Starling,[15] and
now lives in Sydney.[1]
References
- ^ a
b
http://wikiangela.com/
- ^ a
b
c
d
"Wikimedia Press Information,
August 2005" (pdf). Wikimedia. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/archive/e/ee/20051111022540!Presskit.pdf. Retrieved
2008-06-22.
- ^ Tom McNichol (April 3 2007). "Building a Wiki World".
CNN. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/index.htm.
- ^
"Wiki sites proliferate, but
can they profit?". International Herald
Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/04/business/wiki.php. Retrieved 2007-12-06. "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. http://www.smh.com.au/news/next/quest-for-the-universal-wiki/2005/11/21/1132421577605.html. Retrieved
2007-07-07.
- ^
Robert Levine (August 7, 2006). "The Many Voices of
Wikipedia, Heard in One Place". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/technology/07wiki.html?ref=technology&pagewanted=all.
- ^
Ryan Singel (2006). "Wonderful Wiki Sidebar".
Wired News. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/09/71734?currentPage=all.
- ^ 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. http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/fast-facts-found-online/2007/02/21/1171733770530.html.
- ^ "Angela Beesley resigns from
Wikimedia Foundation board", Wikimedia Foundation press
release, July 7, 2006.
- ^
Pink, Daniel. "The Book Stops Here". in
Brendan I. Koerner. The Best of Technology Writing 2006.
University of Michigan
Press. p. 116. ISBN 0472031953.
- ^
"Resolution creation
communications committee", Wikimedia Foundation, September 26,
2006.
- ^
"Advisory Board —
Wikimedia Foundation". http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Angela_Beesley. Retrieved
2007-05-18.
- ^
"Wikis: Tools for
Information Work and Collaboration", booki.info,
June 14, 2006.
- ^
Beesley Starling, Angela (December 1,
2008). "Married!". Angela and Tim. http://angtim.com/married/. Retrieved
2008-12-05.
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