Angela Beesley Starling
Angela Beesley in November 2005
| Angela Beesley Starling | |
|---|---|
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| Residence | Sydney[1] |
| Alma mater | Aston University[2] |
| Occupation | Vice-President of Community Relations |
| Employer | Wikia |
| Known for | Co-founder of Wikia; chair of the advisory board and former member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| Spouse(s) | Tim Starling (2008 – present) |
| Website WikiAngela | |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://wikiangela.com/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Wikimedia Press Information, August 2005"] (pdf). Wikimedia. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
- ↑ Tom McNichol (April 3 2007). [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }} }} "Building a Wiki World"]. CNN. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/index.htm.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }} }} "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."
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Adam Turner (2005-11-05). [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Quest for the universal Wiki"]. The Sydney Morning Herald. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
- ↑ Robert Levine (August 7, 2006). [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }} }} "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). [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }} }} "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). [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }} }} "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. [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }} }} "The Book Stops Here"]. in Brendan I. Koerner. [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} |{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded| http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }}}} }} The Best of Technology Writing 2006]. University of Michigan Press. p. 116. ISBN 0472031953.
- ↑ "Resolution creation communications committee", Wikimedia Foundation, September 26, 2006.
- ↑ [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Advisory Board — Wikimedia Foundation"]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
- ↑ "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration", booki.info, June 14, 2006.
- ↑ Beesley Starling (December 1, 2008). [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}} "Married!"]. [{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} |{{Expansion depth limit exceeded|{{Expansion depth limit exceeded| http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid={{{Expansion depth limit exceeded}}} }}}} }} Angela and Tim]. {{Expansion depth limit exceeded||}}. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
External links
- 2005 Board candidacy presentation
- Angela's user page on Wikia
- WikiAngela - personal blog
- Co-founder Angela Beesley on Wikia brief video interview during SB Forum on Digital Transitions (18 MB) 2006-04-10
- Six questions for Angela Beesley, Principled Innovation, 2006-07-18
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