Angela Beesley

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Angela Beesley

Angela Beesley (November 2005)
Born: 1977
Norwich, England
Occupation: Vice-president of Wikia, Inc.[1]
Website: wikiangela.com

Angela Beesley is a British Internet entrepreneur. She is a co-founder of 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.[2] After serving for two years, in July 2006 Beesley resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation board of directors.[3]

Since February 21, 2006 she is member of the Communications Committee (ComCom) of the Wikimedia Foundation.[4] The creation of this committee was authorized by the Board of Trustees, where she was one of five members at that time.[5]. She chairs the Foundation's Advisory Board as well.

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.[6] She has also worked as a consultant for the BBC.[7]

  1. ^ Adam Turner (2005-11-22). Quest for the universal Wiki. The Age.
  2. ^ http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html
  3. ^ Wikimedia Foundation press release regarding Beesley resignation
  4. ^ Resolution creation communications committee
  5. ^ Members of the Board of Trustees in February 2006
  6. ^ http://www.booki.info/display/website/About+the+Book
  7. ^ http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org/speakers.html

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