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Uncensored:Angela Beesley
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| Born | August 3, 1977 Norwich, England |
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| Residence | Slough, England |
| Known for | Co-founder of Wikia; chair of the advisory board and former member of the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| Employer | Wikia |
| Occupation | Vice-President of Community Relations |
| Website | WikiAngela |
Angela Beesley is a co-founder and vice president for community relations of Wikia.[1] [2]
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. [3] During this time, she was active in editing content and setting policy, such as privacy policy, within the Foundation.[4] She resigned from the board in July 2006.[5]
Beesley has contrasted her work with wikis to her earlier work with the Open Directory Project, which she found to be much more closed and hierarchical.[6]
Since February 21 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation.[7] She also chairs the Foundation's Advisory Board.[8] [9]
In October 2004, Beesley founded a for-profit Wiki hosting service with Jimmy Wales called Wikia. She sits on the advisory board of the media archive Ourmedia and is a co-author of the book Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration.[10]
References
- ↑ "Wiki sites proliferate, but can they profit?", International Herald Tribune. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
- ↑ Turner, Adam. "Quest for the universal Wiki, The Age, November 22 2005.
- ↑ "The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place.", New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
- ↑ Riehle, Dirk. "How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko", www.riehle.org, 2006.
- ↑ "Angela Beesley resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board", Wikimedia Foundation press release, July 7 2006.
- ↑ Adam Turner (2005-11-05). Quest for the universal Wiki. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
- ↑ "Resolution creation communications committee", Wikimedia Foundation, September 26 2006.
- ↑ Advisory Board - Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
- ↑ "Wikipedia hosts content attacking Aborigines.", Herald Sun. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
- ↑ "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration", booki.info, June 14 2006.
External links
- 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
- Angela Beesley's user page on Wikipedia
