Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Angela Beesley Starling (born 3 August 1977) is a co-founder of Wikia, and its former vice president for community relations. Involved in Wikipedia 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. Since 21 February 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation. 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 and was admitted to a Bachelor of Science honours degree in human psychology from Aston University in 2000, 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. On 8 February 2012, Beesley announced she was leaving Wikia to launch a startup called ChalkDrop.com, an Australian company selling material for educational activities for children.. }
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- Angela_Beesley_Starling abstract "Angela Beesley Starling (born 3 August 1977) is a co-founder of Wikia, and its former vice president for community relations. Involved in Wikipedia 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. Since 21 February 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation. 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 and was admitted to a Bachelor of Science honours degree in human psychology from Aston University in 2000, 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. On 8 February 2012, Beesley announced she was leaving Wikia to launch a startup called ChalkDrop.com, an Australian company selling material for educational activities for children.".