Angela Beesley Starling

co-founder of Wikia
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Angela Beesley Starling (born on August 3, 1977) is a British web entrepreneur. She started as a volunteer editor at the English Wikipedia in February 2003. In June 2004, she was elected to the board of the Wikimedia Foundation and re-elected in July 2005.[1]

Beesley in November 2005

She worked with Jimmy Wales and started Wikia (Now known as Fandom) with him. She was the vice-president of Wikia [2] but left the company in 2012.[source?]

She is married to Tim Starling.[source?]

References

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  1. Dirk Riehle (2006). "How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko". Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym '06). ACM Press. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  2. Turner, Adam (2005-11-22). "Quest for the universal Wiki". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2019-12-07.

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