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Angela Beesley Starling
Angela Beesley Starling
	; Angela Beesley in November 2005
Born	3 August 1977 (age 32); Norwich, Norfolk, England
Residence	Sydney
Alma mater	Aston University
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]

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

Wikinews has related news:

Angela Beesley

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

[residence-0] ttp://wikiangela.com/

[birth-1] "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-2] Tom McNichol (April 3 2007). "Building a Wiki World". CNN. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/index.htm.

[3] "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."

[AT-4] 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.

[5] 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.

[6] Ryan Singel (2006). "Wonderful Wiki Sidebar". Wired News. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/09/71734?currentPage=all.

[Riehle-7] Riehle, Dirk. "How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko", www.riehle.org, 2006.

[8] 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.

[WFpressrelease-9] "Angela Beesley resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board", Wikimedia Foundation press release, July 7, 2006.

[10] Pink, Daniel. "The Book Stops Here". in Brendan I. Koerner. The Best of Technology Writing 2006. University of Michigan Press. p. 116. ISBN 0472031953.

[11] "Resolution creation communications committee", Wikimedia Foundation, September 26, 2006.

[12] "Advisory Board — Wikimedia Foundation". http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Angela_Beesley. Retrieved 2007-05-18.

[13] "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration", booki.info, June 14, 2006.

[14] Beesley Starling, Angela (December 1, 2008). "Married!". Angela and Tim. http://angtim.com/married/. Retrieved 2008-12-05.

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