Lee Daniel Crocker
American software programmer · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1963 · age 63
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.
Lee Daniel Crocker is read about 13 times a day, in 11 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 August 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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About this person
MediaWiki's code repository was still named "phase3" until the move from Subversion to Git in March 2012.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1963 · age 63
