Angela Beesley Starling

Who is Angela Beesley Starling?

Angela Beesley is the co-founder of Wikia,

the community-focused wiki hosting site which is developing over 2000

wikis, including many of the world's largest wikis such as Wookieepedia, Uncyclopedia, Memory Alpha, WoWWiki, and the Marvel Database Project. Angela Beesley is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation responsible for Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, the Commons, and the other Wikimedia projects. Prior to this, Angela was an elected trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Angela has contributed a chapter on managing wikis to the book Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration which was edited by Jane Klobas and published by Chandos, Oxford in June 2006 and translated into Italian under the title Oltre Wikipedia in 2007.

Angela's personal blog and wiki at wikiangela.com/blog and wikiangela.com/wiki