Lee Daniel Crocker
Lee Daniel Crocker | |
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Born | Lee Daniel Crocker July 3, 1963 |
Occupation | Computer programmer |
Lee Daniel Crocker (born July 3, 1963) is an American computer programmer. He is best known for rewriting 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.
He is a co-author of the
In June 2010, Crocker was among those recognized by the Software Tools Users Group (STUG) as a major contributor to MediaWiki when they awarded MediaWiki and the Wikimedia Foundation the USENIX Advanced Computing Technical Association STUG award for "the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia".[4]
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0521764513.
- ISBN 978-1118555996.
- ISBN 9780738201443.
- ^ "STUG Award". USENIX. 6 December 2011. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
External links
- Lee Daniel Crocker's Wikipedia user page
- Information Week May 7, 2007: The Best Web Software Ever Written Archived February 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- San Diego Union-Tribune December 6, 2004: Everyone's Encyclopedia
- Dr. Dobb's Journal #232 July 1995 (Vol 20, Issue 7), pp. 36–44: PNG: The Portable Network Graphic Format