Angela Beesley
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| Angela Beesley | |
 Angela Beesley in November 2005
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| Occupation | Vice-President of Community Relations |
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| Employers | Wikia |
| Known for | Co-founder of Wikia; chair of the advisory board and former member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| Website WikiAngela |
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Angela Beesley is a British internet entrepreneur.[1] She is a co-founder and vice president for community relations of Wikia.[2][3] 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.[4][5] During this time, she was active in editing content and setting policy, such as privacy policy, within the Foundation.[6] She resigned from the board in July 2006.[7][8]
In October 2004, Beesley founded a for-profit Wiki hosting service with Jimmy Wales called Wikia.[9] She also sits on the advisory board of the media archive Ourmedia.[3] Since February 21, 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation.[10] She chairs the Foundation's Advisory Board.[11] She contributed a chapter to the book Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ Tom McNichol. "Building a Wiki World", CNN, April 3 2007.
- ^ "Wiki sites proliferate, but can they profit?", International Herald Tribune. Retrieved on 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. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
- ^ Robert Levine. "The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place", The New York Times, August 7, 2006.
- ^ Ryan Singel. "Wonderful Wiki Sidebar", Wired News, 2006.
- ^ Riehle, Dirk. "How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko", www.riehle.org, 2006.
- ^ David Adams. "Fast facts found online", The Age, February 22, 2007.
- ^ "Angela Beesley resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board", Wikimedia Foundation press release, July 7, 2006.
- ^ Daniel Pink. "The Book Stops Here", in Brendan I. Koerner: The Best of Technology Writing 2006. University of Michigan Press, 116. ISBN 0472031953.
- ^ "Resolution creation communications committee", Wikimedia Foundation, September 26, 2006.
- ^ Advisory Board - Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
- ^ "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration", booki.info, June 14, 2006.
[edit] External links
- 2005 Board candidacy presentation
- 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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| Main articles | Bomis · Nupedia · Wikipedia · Wikimedia Foundation · Wikimania · MediaWiki |
| People | Jimmy Wales · Larry Sanger · Florence Devouard · Angela Beesley · Sue Gardner |
| Events | Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China · Congressional staffer edits to Wikipedia · Essjay controversy · Seigenthaler incident · WikiScanner · Chris Benoit controversy · Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story |
| Wikimedia projects | Wikibooks · Wikimedia Commons · Wiktionary · Wikisource · Wikiquote · Wikinews · Wikiversity |
| Related projects and forks | Citizendium · Enciclopedia Libre · Interpedia · Veropedia · Wikia · WikiZnanie · Wikinfo · Wikiweise |
