Summary: Angela Beesley is the chair of the Wikimedia Foundation and a champion for the power of wikis in encouraging collaboration in a range of contexts. A keynote speaker at the Jisc conference next week, she gives an exclusive podcast interview for Jisc in which she explains to Philip Pothen some of the uses of wikis in education and research and defends wikis such as Wikipedia against the charge that they lack the quality and provenance needed for educational use.
