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Angela Beesley is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation which operates Wikipedia and other wiki-based reference works. Angela also served as an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation. Angela has been involved with the Wikipedia community for more than five years.

In 2004, Angela Beesley co-founded Wikia, a commercial wiki company which is developing thousands of wikis on topics ranging from education and science to gaming and popular culture.

Angela contributed a chapter on managing wikis to the book 'Wikis: Tools for information Work and Collaboration' which was published in 2006. An Italian version was published in 2007 under the title 'Oltre Wikipedia'.

Prior to her involvement with social software, Angela was a researcher and test developer at the National Foundation for Educational Research.

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