Confluence (software)

Article summary

Confluence is a web-based corporate wiki developed by Australian software company Atlassian. Atlassian wrote Confluence in the Java programming language and first published it in 2004. Confluence Standalone comes with a built-in Tomcat web server and hsql database, and also supports other databases. The company markets Confluence as enterprise software, licensed as either on-premises software or software as a service running on AWS. In 2025, Atlassian announced intentions to discontinue supporting on-premise deployments by 2029.

Key claims

1. publication date: 2004 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 2004-03-25 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the publication date is "2004". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the release date is "2004-03-25". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374630917