Angela Beesley Starling

Bio

Angela Beesley Starling is a founder of Wikia where she has supported the creation and development of thousands of wikis in more than 100 different languages. Wikia looks after many of the world's largest community-created wikis including Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki and the Recipes Wikia with 50,000 recipes. Wikia has guides to all the best games including World of Warcraft, Wikia's largest gaming wiki with 70,000 articles. Wikia is also developing a Question & Answers site. Angela has been a volunteer editor at Wikipedia since February 2003 and now chairs the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation responsible for Wikipedia. Angela contributed a chapter on managing wikis to the book Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration. Angela moved from England to Australia in 2005 and now lives in Sydney with her husband, Tim.