Angela Beesley Starling

Angela Beesley Starling (born 3 August 1977) is a co-founder of Wikia, and its former vice president for community relations. Involved in since 2003, Beesley was elected to 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. She resigned from the board in July 2006.
In October 2004, Beesley founded a for-profit Wiki hosting service with Jimmy Wales called Wikia. She also sits on the advisory board of the media archive Ourmedia. She is a member of the Foundation's Advisory Board. She contributed a chapter to the book Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration.
Beesley grew up in Maidstone and Colchester where she started studies in 1996. 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.

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