Angela Beesley Starling (born 3 August 1977)[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]
^"Wiki sites proliferate, but can they profit?". International Herald Tribune. 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.
^ abTurner, Adam (5 November 2005). "Quest for the universal Wiki". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2007.