Angela Beesley
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Angela Beesley (born August 3 1977) is a British Internet entrepreneur. She is a co-founder and vice president for community relations of Wikia.
Involved in Wikipedia since 2003, Beesley was elected onto the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2004, and re-elected in 2005. During this time, she was active in editing content and setting policy, such as privacy policy, within the Foundation.[1] After serving for two years, in July 2006 Beesley resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation board of directors.[2].
In October 2004, she founded a for-profit Wiki hosting service with Jimmy Wales called Wikia. She sits on the advisory board of the media archive Ourmedia. She is a co-author of the book Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration.[3] She has also worked as a consultant for the BBC.[4]
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External links
- Angela Beesley's personal weblog
- Angela Beesley's wiki
- 2005 Board candidacy presentation
- The Book Stops Here - See p. 4 for Beesley profile
- 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