Angela Beesley
About: I've been involved with Wikipedia for more than 5 years. I'm a founder of Wikia.com.
Blog Posts
Google Wikipedia sex test
--Sorry - I couldn’t resist the title. Those were the 4 most popular queries made at Wikia Search at the time of our pre-alpha launch in Januar...
Wikimedia election 2008
--If you have 600 edits on a Wikimedia project, it’s time to go and vote in this year’s Board election. One seat is open. For the first t...
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 g...
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-L...
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--Thinking of writing a blog post about the Wikimedia Commons picture of the year contest reminded me I had an unpublished draft post about 2007. Lik...
Two years
--It’s 2 years today since I first arrived in Australia. I was here for the X|Media|Lab conference in Melbourne and I thought it migh...
Five wikis - what’s the connection?
--What do the Wikia sites on events, POV editorials, photography, the Polish RPG Wolsung, and the Fallout series of games have in common? Add a guess...
Blogger’s Code of Conduct at Wikia
--Inspired by Tim O’Reilly’s call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct, we’ve started a draft Code of Conduct on Wikia’s Blo...
Happy Easter
--Happy Easter! Here are a few Easter Wikia pages I found testing out Wikia’s new cross-wiki search tool. Find out about Easter on the Christia...
Wiki Wednesday
--If you’re in either London or Palo Alto on April 4, be sure to attend Wiki Wednesday. The London event is starting at 6.30pm at Microsoft Hou...
What percentage of Wikipedia vandalism is done by registered users?
--A few wiki bloggers are reporting the misleading statistic that 97% of vandalism is done by “anonymous” users when they actually mean u...
OED adds a new word: “wiki”
--“A type of web page designed so that its content can be edited by anyone who accesses it, using a simplified markup language.“ I’...
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Comments
Hi Angela, looking forward to meeting you at the conference. Did you see that the Skype interview we recorded went out: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/...
See you on Tuesday..