Angela Beesley Starling
| Angela Beesley Starling | |
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 Angela Beesley in November 2005 |
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| Born | 3 August 1977 Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Residence | New South Wales[1] |
| Alma mater | Aston University[2] |
| Employer | Wikia |
| Known for | Co-founder of Wikia; member of the advisory board and former member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| Title | Co-founder |
| Spouse | Tim Starling (2008–present) |
| Children | Evelyn Christine Starling |
| Website | |
| WikiAngela | |
Angela Beesley Starling (born 3 August 1977 in Norwich, England)[2] is a co-founder of Wikia, and its former[3] 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 21 February 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation.[12] She is a member of 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 from Aston University.[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 23 November 2008, she married MediaWiki developer Tim Starling.[15] They currently live in New South Wales.[1] On 2 October 2010, Angela gave birth to Evelyn Christine Starling.[16]
On 8 February, 2012, Angela announced she was leaving Wikia to launch a startup called ChalkDrop.com.[17]
[edit] References
- ^ a b End of 2009 – October on WikiAngela.com, December 30, 2009 by Angela Beesley
- ^ a b c d "Wikimedia Press Information, August 2005" (pdf). Wikimedia. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/archive/e/ee/20051111022540!Presskit.pdf. Retrieved 22 June 2008.
- ^ http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Angela/Leaving_Wikia
- ^ "Wiki sites proliferate, but can they profit?". International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/04/business/wiki.php. Retrieved 6 December 2007. "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 (5 November 2005). "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 7 July 2007.
- ^ Robert Levine (7 August 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 (22 February 2007). "Fast facts found online". The Age (Australia). 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, 7 July 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, 26 September 2006.
- ^ "Advisory Board — Wikimedia Foundation". http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Angela_Beesley. Retrieved 18 May 2007.
- ^ "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration", booki.info, 14 June 2006.
- ^ Beesley Starling, Angela (1 December 2008). "Married!". Angela and Tim. http://angtim.com/married/. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
- ^ Status on Twitter, 2 October 2010 by Angela Beesley (@wikiangela)
- ^ http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Angela/Leaving_Wikia
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 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
- Works by or about Angela Beesley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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