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. On November 23, 2008, she married MediaWiki developer Tim Starling, and now lives in Sydney.