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software maintainer

person who builds source code into a binary package for distribution, commits patches, or organizes code in a source repository
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software maintainer

Summary

software maintainer is an occupation[1]. It draws 11 Wikipedia views per month (occupation category, ranking #311 of 676).[2]

Key Facts

  • software maintainer's instance of is recorded as occupation[3].
  • software maintainer's instance of is recorded as position[4].
  • software maintainer's item operated is recorded as software project[5].
  • software maintainer's subclass of is recorded as software developer[6].
  • software maintainer's field of this occupation is recorded as software maintenance[7].
  • software maintainer's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04lf9pf[8].
  • software maintainer's facet of is recorded as free and open-source software[9].
  • software maintainer's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 151970436[10].
  • software maintainer's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 10759876-n[11].
  • software maintainer's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C151970436[12].

Why It Matters

software maintainer draws 11 Wikipedia views per month (occupation category, ranking #311 of 676).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_software-maintainer_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{software maintainer}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/software-maintainer}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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