# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-daniel-crocker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:01:59.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-daniel-crocker"
name: "Lee Daniel Crocker"
slug: "lee-daniel-crocker"
description: "Lee Daniel Crocker is an American computer programmer who rewrote the software upon which Wikipedia runs to address scalability problems. This software, originally known as \"Phase III\", went live in July 2002 and became the foundation of what is now called MediaWiki. MediaWiki's code repository was still named \"phase3\" until the move from Subversion to Git in March 2012."
tagline: "American software programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Daniel_Crocker.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.08189466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "لي دانيال كروكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%8A%D1%80"
    title: "Лий Даниел Крокър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker"
    title: "Lee Daniel Crocker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker"
    title: "Lee Daniel Crocker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker"
    title: "Lee Daniel Crocker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker"
    title: "Lee Daniel Crocker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "ली डैनियल क्रॉकर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC_%EB%8B%A4%EB%8B%88%EC%97%98_%ED%81%AC%EB%A1%9C%EC%BB%A4"
    title: "리 다니엘 크로커"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker"
    title: "Lee Daniel Crocker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Daniel_Crocker"
    title: "Lee Daniel Crocker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%C2%B7%E4%B8%B9%E5%B0%BC%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E5%85%8B%E7%BD%97%E5%85%8B"
    title: "李·丹尼尔·克罗克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3077051"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump