---
id: "worksheets:exercise/create-wiki-survey"
type: "Solving Public Problems worksheet"
title: "Create a Wiki Survey Using All Our Ideas"
url: "https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/create-wiki-survey"
date: "2024-07-11"
summary: "Exercises designed to help you create and develop your public interest project, from Solving Public Problems by The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change."
source: "Solving Public Problems worksheets (worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org), The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Create a Wiki Survey Using All Our Ideas

Exercise group: Defining Problems with Human-Centered Design · Recommended exercise

## Tips

- Make Sure You Have Enough Ideas
- Articulate Your Question
- Create Categories First
- Testing Different Messages
- Advertise
- Make It Relevant

For examples of Wiki Surveys, see these examples: 

- State of New Jersey Future of Work Engagement- [https://smarter.nj.gov/fow/](https://smarter.nj.gov/fow/)
- AARP Big Health Data Engagement -  [https://aarp.crowd.law/](https://aarp.crowd.law/) 
- AARP Big Health Data - https://congress.crowd.law/case-aarp-and-all-our-ideas.html
- Governador Pregunta - https://congress.crowd.law/case-governador-pergunta.html

## Questions

1. Write Your Question:
2. Define Your Categories of Responses:
3. Define Your Answer Choices: [if necessary, use a spreadsheet or additional document to capture at least 50 options]

## Source

Solving Public Problems, Chapter 5, p. 131 (modified from the book) (builds on Matt Salganik’s Bit by Bit book on Wiki Surveys)

## PDF version

https://directus.theburnescenter.org/assets/029bece5-8c3c-4c0f-a728-e72277c82543

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