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This website is created by language Advocates for Khan Academy; it doesn't represent the official position of Khan Academy; please consider it a fan site. Thanks go to KA Deutsch, the team driving the German efforts, for hosting this site and many other helpful tools.

It is meant to share best practices for achieving success with localization, awareness and adoption of KA around the world. For help and guidelines for all translators, please see Zendesk.

Updates from Khan Academy

• Product Updates:

Translation

• Guidelines: tbd
• Organizing a team: Paid translations, CrowdSourcing Volunteers, Project organization & leadership
• Crowdin: Translation Tools, Number Formatting, Decimal signs, Image Translation, Work Arounds, Linter
• Videos: Videos with KA Exercises, Letter template for hiring video editor
  • Software: Audacity
• Tools: Apruvr, dALEK, KATranslationCheck, KAPolyglott
• Languages: Bulgarian, German, Polish, Czech, Swedish

Best Practices for Awareness & Adoption

• Communication: Social Media Communication, Email campaigns
• Crowdsourcing translation: Finding volunteers
• Adoption: Remote mentorship
• Congratulations! You now run a start-up.: How to survive...

Collaboration

• Product: KA roadmap, KA translation roadmap
• KA HQ initiatives: Chameleon, Content freezing
• International initiatives: Arabic, EU funding, IB School - CAS Program, Micro-KA
• Relevant "competition" and "next-gen" Innovations in Edu-Tech/ didactics/content: Innovation and "competition",
• Notes: Sofia in October 2016

About this Wiki

Consult the User's Guide on how to use a wiki. Hint: it's just like Wikipedia.

For KA translation questions, please contact Joy or Jake. For technical wiki questions, please contact Daniel or Alain. We also keep Admin notes.

Housekeeping: please pick a username that is easy to link to you, e.g., dcholakov or Alain_Schaefer‎. If your application isn't approved within a couple days, please email us.