Angela Beesley

Infobox Person
name = Angela Beesley


image_size = 200px
birth_date = birth year and age|1977
birth_place = Norwich, England
caption = 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.
employer = Wikia
occupation = Vice-President of Community Relations
website = [http://www.wikiangela.com/ WikiAngela]

Angela Ruth Beesley (born 1977 in Norwich, England)cite web |url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/archive/e/ee/20051111022540!Presskit.pdf |title=Wikimedia Press Information, August 2005 |accessdate=2008-06-22 |format=pdf |publisher=Wikimedia] is a British Internet entrepreneur.citenews|title= Building a Wiki World |author=Tom McNichol|date=April 3 2007|publisher=CNN|url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/index.htm] She is a co-founder of Wikia and its vice president for community relations. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Wiki sites proliferate, but can they profit? |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/04/business/wiki.php |quote=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. |publisher=International Herald Tribune |date= |accessdate=2007-12-06 ] cite web |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/next/quest-for-the-universal-wiki/2005/11/21/1132421577605.html|title=Quest for the universal Wiki |accessdate=2007-07-07 |author=Adam Turner |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2005-11-05 |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] 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. [citenews|title=The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place |date=August 7, 2006 |publisher=The New York Times|author=Robert Levine|url= http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/technology/07wiki.html?ref=technology&pagewanted=all] [citenews|title= Wonderful Wiki Sidebar|author= Ryan Singel |publisher=Wired News|date= 2006|url= http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/09/71734?currentPage=all] During this time, she was active in editing content and setting policy, such as privacy policy, within the Foundation.Riehle, Dirk. [http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html "How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko"] , "www.riehle.org", 2006.] She resigned from the board in July 2006. [citenews|title=Fast facts found online|publisher= The Age |date=February 22, 2007|author=David Adams|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/fast-facts-found-online/2007/02/21/1171733770530.html] [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Angela_Beesley_resigns_from_Wikimedia_Foundation_board "Angela Beesley resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board"] , Wikimedia Foundation press release, July 7 2006.]

In October 2004, Beesley founded a for-profit Wiki hosting service with Jimmy Wales called Wikia. [citebook|title=The Best of Technology Writing 2006|chapter=The Book Stops Here|author= Daniel Pink|editor=Brendan I. Koerner|publisher=University of Michigan Press|pages=116|id=ISBN 0472031953] She also sits on the advisory board of the media archive Ourmedia. Since February 21 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation. [ [http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Resolution_creation_communications_committee&oldid=15617 "Resolution creation communications committee"] , Wikimedia Foundation, September 26 2006.] She chairs the Foundation's Advisory Board. [cite web|url=http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Angela_Beesley|title=Advisory Board - Wikimedia Foundation|accessdate=2007-05-18] She contributed a chapter to the book "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration". [ [http://www.booki.info/display/website/About+the+Book "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration"] , "booki.info", June 14 2006.]

Beesley grew up in Maidstone and Colchester and has a degree in psychology. 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.

References

External links

* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2005/En#Angela_Beesley 2005 Board candidacy presentation]
* [http://www.ourmedia.org/node/207160 Co-founder Angela Beesley on Wikia] brief video interview during [http://sbforum.blogspot.com/ SB Forum on Digital Transitions] (18 MB) 2006-04-10
* [http://www.principledinnovation.com/blog/2006/07/18/pi-interview-2-six-questions-for-angela-beesley-long-post/ Six questions for Angela Beesley] , "Principled Innovation", 2006-07-18