Gennady Stolyarov II
I write to the transhumanist community with an update regarding THPedia, the transhumanist encyclopedia available at https://th-pedia.org.
First, THPedia has been updated to MediaWiki Version 1.40.1 for purposes of both security and functionality improvement. Now THPedia has the same functionality as the historic H+Pedia, and more. Easy, intuitive edits can be made to pages using the convenient Visual Editor within Version 1.40.1.
I encourage all transhumanists, life-extensionists, cryonicists, futurists, and other allies of our community to consider contributing content to THPedia, based on their areas of knowledge and expertise, as there is significant potential for both increasing the number of entries on THPedia and updating existing entries to reflect developments over the past several years.
Second, given the improvements made to THPedia, and the desire by the Humanity+ organization (which approached me in August) to maintain its own transhumanist encyclopedia, I have transferred the prior H+Pedia domain to Humanity+ after upgrading THPedia.
From now on, THPedia and H+Pedia, both forks of the historic H+Pedia, will be distinct encyclopedias and will follow their own paths. Humanity+ will administer H+Pedia, and I will administer THPedia. I will let Humanity+ describe its own plans in its future updates. I have agreed to the transfer to enable two paths for the development of a transhumanist encyclopedia to be pursued simultaneously, and hopefully with some manner of beneficial symbiosis arising as a result.
It is clear to me, based on the history of H+Pedia, that it was originated and implemented with an open-source ethos, which was strongly espoused by the main administrators and contributors.
I emphasize my commitment to maintaining this open-source ethos of the historic H+Pedia on THPedia. All of the content on THPedia will remain available pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. All editors of the historic H+Pedia who made constructive edits there will remain welcome to edit THPedia. All previous H+Pedia profiles and login credentials should work on THPedia, so it should be easy to contribute. I likewise encourage the Humanity+ organization to provide this manner of reciprocity and maintain the same kind of open-source approach for its H+Pedia going forward.
Transhumanism is for everyone, and this recognition motivated my decision to accept the historic H+Pedia from David Wood in January 2024 and to subsequently rebrand it as THPedia while agreeing for Humanity+ to pursue its own encyclopedia using the H+Pedia name. I have written in 2019 about the need for open-source symbols for transhumanism (“Transhumanists Need New Symbols”) – and the result was a wide array of free, open-source symbols for transhumanism developed by our community. The branding of THPedia with one such open-source symbol (and with a name that stands for transhumanism generally) reinforces this fundamental openness to the creation of a robust repository of information about transhumanism based on the input of anyone within and outside of our movement who has valuable knowledge and insights to offer.
Live long and prosper!
Sincerely,
Gennady Stolyarov II
Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party
Chairman, Transhuman Club
Administrator, THPedia
THPedia has achieved the designation of a Recognized Organization from The Transhumanist Council.