User:Angela
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Angela Beesley
Hi Wikians! I'm the co-founder of Wikia, a project Jimmy Wales and I started in October 2004. I work here as the Vice-President of Community. I've been a volunteer editor at Wikipedia for more than five years, and was on the board of its parent organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation for two years. I'm originally from England and now live in Australia.
Contact
- Wiki: User talk:Angela
- Email: wiki@nge.la
- IRC: Angela in #wikia on freenode
- Google Talk: beesley at gmail dot com
- Phone:
- +44 (0)20 8816 7308 (UK)
- +61 (0)3 9018 7308 (Australia)
- Skype: Beesley
- You can also use the online contact form to send a message to Wikia.
My blog
- I’m engaged!
Tim proposed to me on Saturday night in a romantic setting outside the Sydney Opera House overlooking the Harbour Bridge. We’re planning to get married in NSW this year, around the time of our three year anniversary. Here’s a picture of the ring. It’s white gold with three Moissanite stones. I wanted an alternative to diamonds to [...]
- Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2007
I love the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest. The 2007 results were recently announced. I voted for Henri Camus’ storm at Pors-Loubous. Here are top 22 images. The width is proportional to the number of votes each received. [...]
- End of 2007
Thinking of writing a blog post about the Wikimedia Commons picture of the year contest reminded me I had an unpublished draft post about 2007. Like my end of 2006 post, here’s a summary of what happened last year. January I celebrated New Year at my sister’s house in England, with my family and Tim. Essjay joined Wikia’s [...]
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For Angela for all her work getting Wikicities, now Wikia, going and dealing with all the wiki-ignorance (including mine) and imaturity. --CocoaZen, 16 April 2006 |
'I hereby award Angela Beesley this barnstar, for helping me out with wiki requests, and dealing with vandalism that I couldn't fully handle.--Brain40 14:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC) |
For Angela and all her hard working wikia peoples, please accept this 'barnstar", as a small but heartfelt token for all your help and advice.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 18:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC) |
For Angela, who safely moved the entire contents of my previous wiki to its new home here at Wikia, and for patiently dealing with the seemingly endless barrage of questions that soon followed. Thanks, Angela! --MacManX 01:19, 24 September 2007 (UTC) |
To Angela, who takes time out of her day to help every single user in need of help, and has answered my endless wave of questions about mailing lists :). Thanks for your patience Angela!! --Eu |
| en | This user is a native English speaker. |
| de-1 | Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. |
