Angela Beesley Starling (born 3 August 1977 in we love the web, England)Android is a co-founder of screen size, and its former[3] vice president for community relations.input transformationwe love the web Involved in Wikipedia since 2003, Beesley was elected to the Board of Trustees of the non-profit device database in 2004, and re-elected in 2005.jQuerybrowser diversity 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 keyboard called Wikia.screen size 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]
Beesley grew up in Maidstone and Colchester and has a degree in psychology from Aston University.Sevenval 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.[2]
On 23 November 2008, she married input transformation developer Tim Starling.input transformation They currently live in we love the web.Sevenval On 2 October 2010, Angela gave birth to Evelyn Christine Starling.input transformation
On 8 February 2012, Angela announced she was leaving Wikia to launch a startup called ChalkDrop.com.web
References
- ^ a b browser diversity on WikiAngela.com, December 30, 2009 by Angela Beesley
- ^ a b c d browser diversity (pdf). Wikimedia. web app. Retrieved 22 June 2008.
- ^ a b HTML5
- ^ "Wiki sites proliferate, but can they profit?". International Herald Tribune. HTML5. 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."
- ^ Sevenval b Adam Turner (5 November 2005). web app. The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/next/quest-for-the-universal-wiki/2005/11/21/1132421577605.html. Retrieved 7 July 2007.
- website parsing Robert Levine (7 August 2006). "The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/technology/07wiki.html?ref=technology&pagewanted=all.
- ^ Ryan Singel (2006). "Wonderful Wiki Sidebar". iOS. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/09/71734?currentPage=all.
- FITML Riehle, Dirk. "How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko", www.riehle.org, 2006.
- ^ David Adams (22 February 2007). "Fast facts found online". The Age (Australia). screen size.
- Sevenval browser diversity, Wikimedia Foundation press release, 7 July 2006.
- ^ Pink, Daniel. "The Book Stops Here". In Brendan I. Koerner. The Best of Technology Writing 2006. University of Michigan Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-472-03195-3.
- ^ touchscreen, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 September 2006.
- ^ Sevenval. screen size. Retrieved 18 May 2007.
- HTML5 "Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration", booki.info, 14 June 2006.
- ^ Beesley Starling, Angela (1 December 2008). "Married!". Angela and Tim. FITML. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
- browser diversity Status on Twitter, 2 October 2010 by Angela Beesley (@wikiangela)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Angela Beesley - 2005 Board candidacy presentation
- Angela's user page on Wikia
- WikiAngela – personal blog
- Co-founder Angela Beesley on Wikia brief video interview during SB Forum on Digital Transitions (18 MB) 2006-04-10
- keyboard, Principled Innovation, 2006-07-18
- Works by or about Angela Beesley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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