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-{{ 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.
+{{ cover_199101.png?400}}[[https://sbw.org.au|Sydney Bush Walkers]] (SBW) is NSW's oldest continuing bushwalking club, formed in 1927.
+It has a long and proud history, and the club magazines go back to the early 1930s. This history site started as a project to digitise the old SBW club magazines, and has since expanded to hold other historic documents that may be too niche for the main [[https://sbw.org.au|club website]].
 **[[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.
+One of the aims of the project was 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 (before 2000) to PDF. This stage is almost complete, **with 774 out of 779 (99.3%) of the magazines scanned and available from this site**. The small number remaining have mostly been tracked down, but the document quality makes them time-consuming to OCR.
+The first stage of the project was to scan all the pre digital magazines (before 2000) to PDF. This stage is almost complete, **with 774 out of 779 (99.3%) of the magazines scanned and available from this site**. The small number remaining have mostly been tracked down, but the document quality makes them time-consuming to OCR.
 The second stage is also well progressed. 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 produced. OCR does only a rough job, so a 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.