Angela Beesley

**Angela Beesley** <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:Angela Beesley.jpg
Angela Beesley (November 2005)</td></tr>
Born:	August 3 1977 Norwich, England
Occupation:	Vice-president of Wikia, Inc.<ref name="TheAge">Adam Turner (2005-11-22). Quest for the universal Wiki. The Age.</ref> <tr><th style="text-align: right;">Website:</th><td>User Page</td></tr>

Angela Beesley (born August 3 1977) is a British Internet entrepreneur. She is a co-founder 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.<ref>http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html</ref> After serving for two years, in July 2006 Beesley resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation board of directors.<ref>Wikimedia Foundation press release regarding Beesley resignation</ref>.

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.<ref>http://www.booki.info/display/website/About+the+Book</ref> She has also worked as a consultant for the BBC.<ref>http://www.decadeofwebdesign.org/speakers.html</ref>