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-{{ 198901_cover.png?nolink&400}}Sydney Bush Walkers (SBW) has a long and proud history, and the club magazines go back to the early 1930s. A project has been running to digitise the old SBW club magazines, and to make them available for searching on the web+{{ cover_199101.png?400}}Sydney Bush Walkers (SBW) has a long and proud history, and the club magazines go back to the early 1930s. A project has been running to digitise the old SBW club magazines, and to make them available for searching. 
  
-The project is a massive amount of work for one person. One of the aims of the project is to distribute the work, and allow as many members as possible to work on it.+**[[magazines|SBW Magazines]]**
  
-The first stage of the project is to scan all the pre digital magazines to PDF. This stage is well underway, with around 70% (approx 650) of the magazines complete, and more in progress.+The project is a massive amount of work for one person. One of the aims of the project is to distribute the work, and allow as many members as possible to work on it.
  
-In parallel, the second stage is kicking off. This stage is to use optical character recognition (OCR) to convert the PDFs to text, and to edit and tidy the text files that are producedOCR does only a rough jobso a fair bit of editing is needed to get the text correctedThe main purpose of this wiki is to allow anyone to edit the text filesIf every SBW member tidied up just one issue, the entire history of SBW would be digitised just like that.+The first stage of the project is to scan all the pre digital magazines (before 2000) to PDFThis stage is almost complete**with 770 out of 782 (98.3%) of the magazines scanned and available from this site**The small number remaining have mostly been tracked downbut the document quality makes them time-consuming to OCR.
  
-**No experience is necessary.** If you can read, you can certainly help! To help out with the projectjust [[http://ozultimate.com/sbw/wiki/start?do=register|create an account]]. Once you have created an accountyou can pick magazine and begin editing. See the [[instructions]] for what you need to do to correct the files.+The second stage is also well progressedThis stage is to use optical character recognition (OCR) to convert the PDFs to textand to edit and tidy the text files that are producedOCR does only a rough jobso fair bit of manual editing is needed to get the text corrected. The main purpose of this wiki is to allow anyone to help edit the text files. 
  
-To have a look at the work that has been donecheck out the [[magazines|tracking page]]or have look at a [[199201|completed magazine]].+If every SBW member tidied up just one issue, the entire history of SBW would be digitised just like that. It takes around an hour to tidy up one issueless for specific articles. Even if you have only a bit of free time to help out, why not give it go. **As at May 2020, 79.4% of the magazines have been completed.**
  
 +**No experience is necessary.** If you can read, you can certainly help! To help out with the project, just [[http://ozultimate.com/sbw/wiki/start?do=register|create an account]]. Once you have created an account, you can pick a magazine and begin editing. See the **[[instructions]]** for what you need to do to correct the files.
  
 +To have a look at the work that has been done, check out the **[[magazines|tracking page]]**, or have a look at a [[199201|completed magazine]]. A list of **[[interesting_articles|interesting articles]]** has been started if you need a suggestion on which magazine to begin. Also see the list of [[editors]] of The Sydney Bushwalker (current as at May 2020).
  
 +If you have any problems in general, or with using the wiki, please drop me an email at [[website@ozultimate.com]].
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