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- | 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 | + | {{ cover_199101.png? |
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+ | **[[magazines|SBW Magazines]]** | ||
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. | 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. | ||
- | The first stage of the project is to scan all the pre digital magazines to PDF. This stage is well underway, with around 30% of the magazines | + | The first stage of the project is to scan all the pre digital magazines |
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- | In parallel, the second stage is kicking off. This stage is to OCR the PDFs, and to edit and tidy the text files that are produced. The main purpose of this wiki is to allow anyone to edit the text files. If every SBW member tidied up just one issue, the entire history | + | |
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- | No experience is necessary. If you can read, you can help! To help out with the project, just [[http:// | + | |
- | To see the current status | + | The second stage is also underway. This stage is to use optical character recognition (OCR) to convert |
+ | **No experience is necessary.** If you can read, you can certainly help! To help out with the project, just [[http:// | ||
+ | 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 November 2015). | ||
+ | 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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