Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions

Angela Beesley 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 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.

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 February 21, 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation. She chairs the Foundation's Advisory Board. She contributed a chapter to the book Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration.