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Sunset in an orchard below the Sutter Buttes. Photo by queerbychoice. The Yuba-Sutter Wiki is a community wiki for Yuba and Sutter Counties of California. It is entirely created and maintained by the people who use it: Everyone can edit this website!

Why would I want to use this website?
This is a great place for local event organizers to publicize upcoming events, photographers to share and host photos, athletes to find places to participate in their preferred sports, foodies to find and review local restaurants, history buffs to share knowledge of local history, gardeners to share knowledge of plants that grow well in our area, animal buffs to share their knowledge of local wildlife, bloggers to connect with other local bloggers, business owners to inform the public about local businesses, activists to raise awareness of issues that concern them, and people in general to create personal homepages and get to know each other better. In fact, you can use it to share information about virtually anything in the Yuba-Sutter area!

Why not just put all this same stuff on Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is intended for a global audience, and therefore only allows information to be posted on it that could be reasonably expected to interest a global audience. The Yuba-Sutter wiki is intended for a local audience, so you can feel free to go into a lot more detail here about things that might not interest the entire world - even rather silly things, such as posting personal pages about each of your pets. It is our hope to enhance the feeling of small-town familiarity with our neighbors by helping all of us get to know each other better.

How can I edit this website?
Simply click on the "Edit" icon at the top of any article, or click on any dashed link representing a requested article that does not yet exist. Read the Help page if you need more information. Or check out our Wanted Pages, Photo Requests, Review Requests, and Seed Pages to find out what we most need your help with!

How is this wiki supported?
The Yuba-Sutter Wiki is part of the Wiki Spot project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, member-supported organization that provides a home and interconnectivity for all kinds of wiki projects. Other communities near Yuba-Sutter that have local wikis include Sacramento, Chico, Nevada County, West Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, Woodland, Lincoln, and Davis.

Comments:

2011-06-25 15:53:57   So I uploaded a pic of the water being so very high at Bullards Bar Reservoir but it doesn't show on the page (http://yubasutter.wikispot.org/Bullards_Bar_Reservoir) What did I do wrong? —IngridMKollmann

2011-06-25 17:18:39   I can't figure out why the first image filename you tried didn't work. However, the current image filename did work after I edited the page to refer to that image filename rather than to the old image filename. If you look at the changes I made to the Bullards Bar Reservoir page, you'll see what I did. Thank you for sharing your great photograph! —queerbychoice

2011-12-29 17:35:58   Your knowledge of the Territorial Dispatch is woefully inaccurate and biased. Hopefully is not indicative of the remainder of your work. —69.227.214.124

2012-02-25 18:24:41   Thank you for collecting information about Yuba and Sutter counties on this website. As a suggestion, I believe the site would be much improved if the information you post was substantiated by references to where the information came from. It is difficult to accept your information as facts without citing your sources of information.

2012-02-26 19:25:02   Do you have specific pages in mind that need sources cited? There are certainly sources cited already on some pages, but other pages may need work. —queerbychoice

2012-03-03 10:24:33   Thank you for addressing my comment. I haven't been through all the pages here, but as an example, the demographics information (the places tab at the top of the page) including median salaries, populations, etc. could have a link to where you obtained the information. Also if possible, the histories and statistics of the different areas (e.g. South Yuba City, Tierra Buena, and possibly others) do not state where the information came from. I do want to reiterate that I appreciate your effort in collecting the information - I just like to know where the information comes from. —67.182.166.177

2012-03-03 14:15:09   The "Links" section at the bottom of many pages gives links that are the source of the information on those pages. The pages about individual cities and towns that have demographic information each have a "Links" section at the bottom of the page that links to a City-Data.com page that the demographic information comes from. You're right, however, that the source should be footnoted rather than just letting the "Links" section double as a "Works Cited" section. The source seemed obvious at first when the pages were first created and had hardly anything on them other than the demographic information and that link, but as the pages have grown longer, the source of the information has been obscured. I'll add footnotes now.

It appears to me that the history sections of those same pages already do cite their sources with footnotes or in-text references. Do you see an example where that isn't the case?

As for the Places page, that's a compilation of the demographic information from all the various different City-Data.com pages linked throughout the wiki, so there's no single page I can link to that gives quite the same information. I added a statement to try to clarify how I compiled the information. —queerbychoice

2012-03-05 19:58:09   I had not seen the link to City-Data.com. Thank you for clarifying that and for adding the footnotes. I think that it's clearer now since the links are tied directly to the information. It does seem that the history sections are linking to external sites or references - that was my mistake. Thanks again for making the changes. —67.182.166.177